[Qgis-user] Fields Text Edit widget "HTML" option: How is it supposed to work?

[Bernd Vogelgesang]

Hi,
in my search for means to create more complex labelling, I stumbled upon  
the option for the Text Edit widget to check "Multiline" which enables a  
"HTML" checkbox.

As I only find zero description on that feature, I wonder what it is good  
for, cause using it only yields strange results:
Editing an entry of my text field does not replace the NULL, but the NULL  
is shifted right when typing.
Stopping the edit with return, the typed text disappears again and NULL  
remains.

However, using the field calculator to populate the field works. Inserting  
'<i>hello</i>' into my label field shows only <i>hello</i> on the map, and  
not an italic text.

Interestingly, when I now click once into the field with <i>hello</i> in  
the attribute table, my "hello" is displayed italic, but leaving the cell  
resets the content to NULL again.

So, is this all only nonsense, or is there sth wrong with my install or  
this a bug?

Using 2.8.2 on Linux Mint 17.

Cheers
Bernd

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