#column-formatting 5 articles

• A non-web protocol in a formatter href silently drops the whole elementgotchas / listsms-word: in a formatter link removes the element with all children, per item, no error; open-in-app = openContextMenu
• An empty Date field is not '' — blank dates render as overduegotchas / listsBlank dates fall through to "overdue" and turn rows red; test .displayValue
• Formatting length() is for arrays — on a string it wrecks the expressiongotchas / listsString length via indexOf(str + '^', '^'), or the expression collapses to empty
• View formatting drops CSS gradients — use a solid background-colorgotchas / listsbackground is not on the style allowlist and a gradient in background-image did not survive either; a white initial on a gradient avatar turns invisible, so use a solid background-color
• View formatting JSON can't contain < or & — XmlException on savegotchas / listsIt's stored inside the view's schema XML; reverse the comparison and nest if()