Formatting in the web store description field

[NetBeans Team]

I've noticed that some extensions have been able to set the bold portion of their description to just a few words.  However when I type in my extensions description, it just takes the first X number of characters and makes those the bold text at the beginning.

Is there some kind of formatting that is allowed in the description field?  I tried using some basic HTML <br> tags for new lines, etc. but those are just shown as text.

Thanks in advance for any insight!

[Scott Fujan]

It is just the description in the manifest

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[NetBeans Team]

No, I'm talking about the "Detailed Description" field on the Developer Dashboard pages for editing your listed item.

This isn't in the manifest.

[Joshua Woodward]

Is it similar to formatting on Google+ maybe?

_underline_

-strikethrough-

*bold*

Just guessing...have not tried it.

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[Joshua Woodward]

Nope, I don't think you can format the description.

For new line, just a simple enter/return key does the trick.

[NetBeans Team]

I was thinking that it couldn't be done either, but if you look at something like the "Eat Munchies" game which is on the carossel at the top of the Web Store right now for me.

It has a description of:

Eets is a beautiful physics-based puzzle game by the award-winning team at Klei Entertainment.

*** Eets Munchies is in Early Beta! ***

The Eets have escaped, and players must lure them back by tempting them with cake! Using a host of amazing creatures, hand-animated by the award-winning team at Klei, players will cajole Eets home in puzzle after devious puzzle. Feed snacks to Eets to change its behavior, deform the terrain to meet your needs, or suck Eets into a whale and shoot it out its spout -- it's up to you!

Notice how the Bold part is not repeated in the rest of the description below.

When I type in my description, it takes the first 120 characters and makes them bold, then it repeats the entire thing again in a normal font.

Donec id elit non mi porta gravida at eget metus. Fusce dapibus, tellus ac cursus commodo, *** This should be it's own line ***…

Donec id elit non mi porta gravida at eget metus. Fusce dapibus, tellus ac cursus commodo, 

*** This should be it's own line ***

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There seems to be a super secret way to do the formatting. :-)

[Joshua Woodward]

Hmmmm

My extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/%2B1-coins/efknlbojmfmkpbfoenfidjklbhbbkdih/details?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon)

The bold text seems to be the value for the "description" in the manifest file, the detailed description in the developer dashboard is not bold.

Are you placing the same text in the description field inside the manifest file, and in the dashboard?

They should be two different strings - manifest description=short - detailed description=long (Also might explain why you see it "repeating", because you typed it in twice)

[NetBeans Team]

You may be on to something there Joshua.

I'll take a look at the manifest and see what's set in there.  There is another person working on that.  I was just told to go and setup the description. ;-)

Thanks for the pointer!