I want to be able to add HTML tags to a folder description to allow better formatting.
I am using EAA Faceted Navigation on this folder, so I can't just change it to a page, nor is the option of changing the default view of the folder an option.
So, I am stuck with folder description. I tried:
just adding HTML code to folder description. It simply presented the HTML as text
If I remember right, drupal deals with this in an interesting way. They just highlight the text they want to be the description in the visual editor. That gives you a lot more flexibility.
Depending on what kind of tags you want to add it's possible to use JavaScript to inject HTML into parts (or maybe all) of the description, eg making URLs clickable.
But I agree with @jensens that it's time description fields were made HTML. So many users have asked me why they can't do this it's clearly expected.
at least one client, where i have collective.richdescription installed, regulary confuses the description with the text field and fills in very long texts. a full blown tinymce is too much here, a stipped down version would be what we need. should be possible with mockup, as we can configure the widget on a per field basis.