Font style in a question label - override bold?

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Default styling of question labels in Collect is bold. And as the docs note:

The label of a form widget is already bold, so bolding text within the label has no effect.

Also referenced this old Enketo blog post. I was trying to figure out a way to un-bold part of the text, and have been unsuccessful so far. Is this possible?

Just text.
__Markdown bold__
<span style="font-style:normal">span font-style normal</span>
<span style="font-weight:200">span font-weight 200</span>
<span style="color:DarkGrey">span color DarkGrey</span>
<small> small tag </small>
<span style="font-style:italic">span font-style italic</span>

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I don't think it's possible... we don't make it bold using html but calling setTypeface() method so everything is bold, even if you set font-family it will be bold.

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Yes, I don't really know why that decision was made. It's something that @seadowg and I were recently talking about changing as he is making the whole app in line with Material Design recommendations. I don't think it would be very disruptive to make labels respect any markdown or HTML style specified. Any objection to just doing it?

I don't think there's any technical reason for this -- it's just a decision that someone made, right?

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We actually just merged changes (https://github.com/opendatakit/collect/pull/3483) that stop the label from always being bold. Should be coming in 1.26 (and hopefully a little sooner in a beta).

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Does it not already support this (other than the hardcoded bold problem)? I've not really played with this feature at all.

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Ah, indeed, I misinterpreted what you said in that thread. So the text is now "heavy" but not bold. Interesting.

Yes, by supporting "any", I specifically mean including bold.

We should verify that this is now the behavior before the beta goes out in the next couple days.

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I'll double check we can support examples like @danbjoseph's.

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Ok looks like we can now add bold and other styles:

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Well then. Thank you for anticipating this change that was apparently already made, @danbjoseph! :tada: