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Special syntax

Task Description

Task description can be set and received in HTML format with a limited set of tags. See table below for a list of allowed tags.

FORMATTING OPTION

HTML TAGS

NOTES

Line Break

<br>

Headers

<h1>, <h2>, <h3>, <h4>, <h5>, <h6>

Bold

<strong>, <b>

Italics

<em>, <i>

Underline

<u>

Strikethrough

<s>

Highlight Text

<span style="color:{hex}">

Insert the color code instead of {hex}. We only support a limited number of colors. Any other colors added to Wrike will be converted to the closest similar color. List of supported colors: #E1BEE7, #BBDEFB, #C8E6C9, #FFCC80, #F8BBD0, #DBDBDB, #FFFFFF, #8E24AA, #1E88E5, #43A047, #F57C00, #D81B60, #707070, #191919.

Links

<a href="https://www.wrike.com">

Add 'rel="nofollow"' for all links that direct you out of the Wrike Workspace. Allowed protocols: http, https, ftp, mailto

Insert Image

<img>

Only task attachments can be used as an image source

Ordered List

<ol>

List items should be wrapped in an <li> tag

Unordered List

<ul>

List items should be wrapped in an <li> tag

List item

<li>

For both ordered and unordered lists

Table

<table>

Only regular NxM tables are supported, without merged and split cells

Table row

<tr>

Table cell

<td>

Task Comments

Comments can be set and received in HTML format with a limited set of tags. See table below for the list of allowed tags. If you query task comments with the parameter "plainText = true" the comment will be returned without any tags.

FORMATTING OPTION

HTML TAGS

NOTES

Line Break

<br>

Links

<a href="https://www.wrike.com">

Add 'rel="nofollow"' for all links that direct you out of the Wrike Workspace. Allowed protocols: http, https, ftp, mailto

@mention

<a class="stream-user-id avatar" rel="userID">@John Doe</a>

Put user ID inside "rel" parameter. @ corresponds to the @ symbol

@followers

<a class="stream-user-id avatar quasi-contact" rel="@followers">@followers</a>

@assignees

<a class="stream-user-id avatar quasi-contact" rel="@assignees">@assignees</a>

Quote of a comment

<blockquote data-entrytype="comment" data-entryid="${Comment ID}" data-user="${User ID}" data-date="${timestamp}">

Quote of task description

<blockquote data-entrytype="[task|folder]" data-entryid="${Task or Folder ID}" data-title="${Task or Folder title}">Quoted description part</blockquote>

Text Custom Fields

Values of text custom fields can be set and received in HTML format with a limited set of tags. See table below for the list of allowed tags. If you query task's custom fields with the parameter "plainTextCustomFields = true" the value will be returned without any tags.

FORMATTING OPTION

HTML TAGS

NOTES

Bold

<strong>

Italics

<em>

Strikethrough

<s>

Links

<a href="https://www.wrike.com">Text</a>

Add 'rel="nofollow"' for all links that direct you out of the Wrike Workspace.

Code

<code>

Code block

<pre>

Ordered list

<ol>

List items should be wrapped in an <li> tag

Unordered list

<ul>

List items should be wrapped in an <li> tag

List item

<li>

For both ordered and unordered lists.

Newline characters should be added to each list item (<li>item\n</li>)