diff --git a/packages/node_modules/@node-red/editor-client/src/js/ui/utils.js b/packages/node_modules/@node-red/editor-client/src/js/ui/utils.js
index d67a5d93d..34f7569bc 100644
--- a/packages/node_modules/@node-red/editor-client/src/js/ui/utils.js
+++ b/packages/node_modules/@node-red/editor-client/src/js/ui/utils.js
@@ -22,8 +22,82 @@ RED.utils = (function() {
         return renderMarkdown(txt);
     }
 
-    _marked.setOptions({
-        renderer: new _marked.Renderer(),
+    let enable = true;
+    const descriptionList = {
+        name: 'descriptionList',
+        level: 'block',                                     // Is this a block-level or inline-level tokenizer?
+        start(src) {
+            if (!src) return null
+            return src.match(/:[^:\n]/)?.index; // Hint to Marked.js to stop and check for a match
+        },
+        tokenizer(src, tokens) {
+            if (!src) return null;
+            const rule = /^(?::[^:\n]+:[^:\n]*(?:\n|$))+/;    // Regex for the complete token
+            const match = rule.exec(src);
+            if (match) {
+                return {                                        // Token to generate
+                    type: 'descriptionList',                      // Should match "name" above
+                    raw: match[0],                                // Text to consume from the source
+                    text: match[0].trim(),                        // Additional custom properties
+                    tokens: this.inlineTokens(match[0].trim())    // inlineTokens to process **bold**, *italics*, etc.
+                };
+            }
+        },
+        renderer(token) {
+            return `<dl class="message-properties">${this.parseInline(token.tokens)}\n</dl>`; // parseInline to turn child tokens into HTML
+        }
+    };
+
+    const description = {
+        name: 'description',
+        level: 'inline',           // Is this a block-level or inline-level tokenizer?
+        start(src) {
+            if (!enable) return null
+            src.match(/:/)?.index; // Hint to Marked.js to stop and check for a match
+        },
+        tokenizer(src, tokens) {
+            if (!enable) return null;
+            const rule = /^:([^:\n]+)\(([^:\n]+)\).*?:([^:\n]*)(?:\n|$)/;  // Regex for the complete token
+            const match = rule.exec(src);
+            if (match) {
+                return {                                       // Token to generate
+                    type: 'description',                       // Should match "name" above
+                    raw: match[0],                             // Text to consume from the source
+                    dt: this.inlineTokens(match[1].trim()),    // Additional custom properties
+                    types: this.inlineTokens(match[2].trim()),
+                    dd: this.inlineTokens(match[3].trim()),
+                };
+            }
+        },
+        renderer(token) {
+            return `\n<dt>${this.parseInline(token.dt)}<span class="property-type">${this.parseInline(token.types)}</span></dt><dd>${this.parseInline(token.dd)}</dd>`;
+        },
+        childTokens: ['dt', 'dd'],                 // Any child tokens to be visited by walkTokens
+        walkTokens(token) {                        // Post-processing on the completed token tree
+            if (token.type === 'strong') {
+                token.text += ' walked';
+            }
+        }
+    };
+
+
+    const renderer = new window._marked.Renderer();
+
+    //override list creation - add node-ports to order lists
+    renderer.list = function (body, ordered, start) {
+        let temp = body;
+        if (enable && ordered) {
+            temp = `<ol class="node-ports">${body}</ol>`;
+        } else if (ordered) {
+            temp = `<ol>${body}</ol>`;
+        } else {
+            temp = `<ul>${body}</ul>`;
+        }
+        return temp;
+    }
+
+    window._marked.setOptions({
+        renderer: renderer,
         gfm: true,
         tables: true,
         breaks: false,
@@ -32,6 +106,8 @@ RED.utils = (function() {
         smartypants: false
     });
 
+    window._marked.use({extensions: [descriptionList, description] } );
+
     function renderMarkdown(txt) {
         var rendered = _marked(txt);
         var cleaned = DOMPurify.sanitize(rendered, {SAFE_FOR_JQUERY: true})