Long text fields have an optional "summary" field. There is no WYSIWYG options for the summary field. What if I need bold text in the summary field.
Is there a solution for this?
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It seems that while the summary field does not have a WYSIWYG editor. It does have the same text format as the main body field.
Cutting and pasting content from the body field does not always work to keep formatting, unless you cut and paste from the source.
I am wondering if there is a module that adds a WYSIWYG editor to the summary field.
Here is a draft module, but I don't want to push this to contrib until I am sure there is no alternative already.
https://github.com/stpaultim/summary_editor