--- a/sat/tools/common/template_xmlui.py	Sat Jan 19 11:39:02 2019 +0100
+++ b/sat/tools/common/template_xmlui.py	Sat Jan 19 11:39:02 2019 +0100
@@ -27,6 +27,12 @@
 log = getLogger(__name__)
 from sat_frontends.tools import xmlui
 from functools import partial
+try:
+    from jinja2 import Markup as safe
+except ImportError:
+    # Safe marks XHTML values as usable as it.
+    # If jinja2 is not there, we can use a simple lamba
+    safe = lambda x: x
 
 
 ## Widgets ##
@@ -136,6 +142,17 @@
     type = u"textbox"
 
 
+class XHTMLBoxWidget(xmlui.XHTMLBoxWidget, InputWidget):
+    type = u"xhtmlbox"
+
+    def __init__(self, xmlui_parent, value, read_only=False):
+        # XXX: XHTMLBoxWidget value must be cleaned (harmful XHTML must be removed)
+        #      This is normally done in the backend, the frontends should not need to
+        #      worry about it.
+        super(XHTMLBoxWidget, self).__init__(
+            xmlui_parent=xmlui_parent, value=safe(value), read_only=read_only)
+
+
 class ListWidget(xmlui.ListWidget, OptionsWidget):
     type = u"list"
 

--- a/sat_frontends/jp/xmlui_manager.py	Sat Jan 19 11:39:02 2019 +0100
+++ b/sat_frontends/jp/xmlui_manager.py	Sat Jan 19 11:39:02 2019 +0100
@@ -238,6 +238,18 @@
     type = u"textbox"
 
 
+class XHTMLBoxWidget(xmlui_base.XHTMLBoxWidget, StringWidget):
+    type = u"xhtmlbox"
+
+    def show(self):
+        # FIXME: we use bridge in a blocking way as permitted by python-dbus
+        #        this only for now to make it simpler, it must be refactored
+        #        to use async when jp will be fully async (expected for 0.8)
+        self.value = self.host.bridge.syntaxConvert(
+            self.value, C.SYNTAX_XHTML, "markdown", False, self.host.profile)
+        super(XHTMLBoxWidget, self).show()
+
+
 class ListWidget(xmlui_base.ListWidget, OptionsWidget):
     type = u"list"
     # TODO: handle flags, notably multi

--- a/sat_frontends/tools/xmlui.py	Sat Jan 19 11:39:02 2019 +0100
+++ b/sat_frontends/tools/xmlui.py	Sat Jan 19 11:39:02 2019 +0100
@@ -116,12 +116,22 @@
 
 class TextBoxWidget(Widget):
     """Input widget with require a long, possibly multilines string
+
     often called TextArea in toolkits
     """
 
     pass
 
 
+class XHTMLBoxWidget(Widget):
+    """Input widget specialised in XHTML editing,
+
+    a WYSIWYG or specialised editor is expected
+    """
+
+    pass
+
+
 class BoolWidget(Widget):
     """Input widget with require a boolean value
     often called CheckBox in toolkits
@@ -582,6 +592,11 @@
                         _xmlui_parent, value, self._isAttrSet("read_only", node)
                     )
                     self.ctrl_list[name] = {"type": type_, "control": ctrl}
+                elif type_ == "xhtmlbox":
+                    ctrl = self.widget_factory.createXHTMLBoxWidget(
+                        _xmlui_parent, value, self._isAttrSet("read_only", node)
+                    )
+                    self.ctrl_list[name] = {"type": type_, "control": ctrl}
                 elif type_ == "bool":
                     ctrl = self.widget_factory.createBoolWidget(
                         _xmlui_parent,