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I'm using Zapier to forward Gmail emails to make new Trello cards as they come in under a specific label. The Emails are HTML emails and when Zapier creates a new card in Trello I see all the HTML tags. Is there a way to enable HTML in Trello cards? I've been researching and cannot find anything. Thanks in advance.

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Where are you seeing the HTML tags? – Zoot Jan 7 at 16:33
Thanks for the response. Here is what it looks like when the new card is created. - <html> <head> <title>New</title> </head> <body> <p><strong>testing</strong></p> <p>test1<br /> test2<br /> test43<br /> test4</p> <br> <p><strong>Instructions</strong></p> – Joe Z Jan 7 at 17:02
This is in the card title, or the card description? – Zoot Jan 7 at 17:04
It's in the card description sorry. – Joe Z Jan 7 at 17:30

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Trello uses Markdown in its description, not HTML.

However, there are online tools that convert from one to the other, such as Pandoc. I don't think Zapier has any content conversion utilities, so you might have to do this manually after the card is created.

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Thank you so much. I was able to get his working. This may be useful to somebody else with a similar issue. I was able to use nl2br() function on my message data which put in the breaks where I needed them I ended up just using plain text and using a function I found on php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php which converts the breaks. Thanks again! – Joe Z Jan 7 at 20:50

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