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id: LS-4
title: Details, summary and description
group: Listings
summary: Filling in a listing's fields by type, adding a new choice from a listing's form, and formatting the description
keywords: [fields, details, summary, description, markdown, formatting, bold, pick-list, choice, new category, date, price]
---

Below the photos and the status, a listing's form shows your listing schema's fields, then the summary and the description.

## Details

**Details** holds the fields that are on the website, in the schema's order. Each is filled in its own way:

- **Text** and **Number** fields are typed. A number with a unit shows it in its label, such as *Odometer (mi)*.
- **Money** and **Year** take numbers. Money shows on the site as dollars, such as *$12,800*.
- A **Pick-list** is chosen from its list, so the site's buttons and searches match exactly.
- A **Date** starts empty: tap or click **Add Date**, then change it; **Clear** empties it again.
- **Dimensions** take a width, a height and a unit. See Dimensions and View on your wall (LS-8).

A field with a *When empty, show…* text shows it in grey while it is empty. That is what the site will say instead, such as *Call for price*.

## A new choice, without leaving the listing

At the bottom of every pick-list is **New category…** (or *New medium…*, named for the field). Type the choice and tap or click **Add**: it is added to your listing schema, so every listing can use it, and picked here. If a built-in schema was in use, this change makes it your own. See The listing schema (SC-1).

## Summary

One line people see in the list, under the name and price. Keep it short: *One owner, full service history.*

## Description

As long as you need, in a few kinds of formatting:

- `**bold**` and `*italic*`
- `## Heading`
- `- item` for a list
- `[text](https://…)` for a link

The description has a formatting editor of its own, the same on every device. The site draws headings, lists, bold, italics and links in your theme's colors; anything else stays plain text.

## Values the schema no longer offers

If a choice is renamed or removed from a pick-list, a listing that has the old value keeps it. The form shows it in its list marked *no longer a choice*, and the site still shows it.