# Html formatting in forms

**URL:** <https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/t/html-formatting-in-forms/1844>\
**Category:** Technical Support\
**Created:** [April 22, 2022, 2:57pm UTC](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/t/html-formatting-in-forms/1844 "2022-04-22T14:57:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![raf](https://communityhealthtoolkit.b-cdn.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/848f3c/32.png) [@raf](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/u/raf)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2022, 2:57pm UTC](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/t/html-formatting-in-forms/1844/1 "2022-04-22T14:57:57Z")

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One of the great features of `CHT` is that you can use `html` to format the output inside forms, as opposed to native `ODK` that only comes with markdown.

However, not all html formatting seems to be possible and I did not find anything in the docs. Could you point me to what is possible and what not? Currently, some html tags, especially in questions are ignores (see picture).

 ![Image20220422165730](https://communityhealthtoolkit.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/2X/5/503f3ce4cbe9ae4f152cfb9c206d113048229a9b.png)

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**Author:** ![jkuester](https://communityhealthtoolkit.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/jkuester/32/806_2.png) [@jkuester](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/u/jkuester)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2022, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/t/html-formatting-in-forms/1844/2 "2022-04-22T15:40:47Z")

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If I remember correctly, on current versions of the CHT the markdown/embedded-HTML only works in `note` fields. (So you cannot use it in the labels of normal questions.) I have seen a pattern in some forms where they will add a `note` with the formatted question text like you are trying to do here and then have the next field be the actual question with `NO_LABEL` as the label text so when reading the form the note is read in place of the actual question label.

![image](https://communityhealthtoolkit.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/2X/6/6c149d1fa78b33ed48f9145065ac8fedaeed4c00.png)

Also, for the record, this is changing in CHT `4.0` when markdown/embedded-HTML will work in the labels of all questions and not just `note` fields.
