Is it possible to format Description field in Work Item created via the Azure DevOps API?

Question

I’m creating Work Items using the ADO API and am having a rough time getting the Description field to accept HTML or Markdown. Is there guidance on how to get the strings piped in form the JSON payload properly to generate the right formatting? Is sending as a string the way to go or should it be an object that defines what the formatting is? Both my HTML and Markdown are getting rendered fully as text.

Answer 1

Looks like making sure the HTML is not escaped works fine.

Answer 2

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