Paste your draft on the left, see exactly how it'll render on Etsy on the right, and copy out a description with literal line breaks, UPPERCASE headings, and • bullets - the only formatting Etsy actually displays.
Nothing to flag - your draft reads cleanly. Warnings here are advisory; the copy button always works.
Most "Etsy descriptions don't render right" frustration comes from four quirks. The formatter handles each one - here's what's going on under the hood.
Pasting "**bold**" or "# Heading" leaves the asterisks and hashes visible to the buyer. The formatter strips Markdown syntax, converts # lines into UPPERCASE pseudo-headings, and turns - / * bullets into the • character that Etsy actually displays.
Etsy renders every newline you submit. Two blank lines mean two blank lines on the listing. The formatter normalizes runs of blank lines to a maximum of one (so accidental triple-spacing in your draft doesn't leak through) and trims trailing whitespace per line.
Google uses the first ~160 chars as the meta-snippet on search results, and Etsy mobile truncates the description preview at roughly the same point. Front-load the value proposition; save your shop story for the bottom.
Curly "smart quotes" sometimes survive an Etsy paste and sometimes don't - same for ♥ ✨ 🎉. The toggles let you normalize to straight ASCII quotes and strip emoji on output, so what you paste into Etsy is what your buyer sees.