We use HTML in build description for many things, but it is not shown properly by Blue Ocean. Here is the ticket to solve it: https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-45719 Its currently in low priority, please go and vote for it if you can to hopefully raise the priority. -- Barak Korren RHV DevOps team , RHCE, RHCi Red Hat EMEA redhat.com | TRIED. TESTED. TRUSTED. | redhat.com/trusted