Adding back create label for the cases where you do not want markdown text

packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/flowDb.ts

@@ -896,6 +896,7 @@ const addNodeFromVertex = (
     const baseNode = {
       id: vertex.id,
       label: vertex.text,
+      labelType: vertex.labelType,
       labelStyle: '',
       parentId,
       padding: config.flowchart?.padding || 8,
@@ -1002,6 +1003,7 @@ export const getData = () => {
       end: rawEdge.end,
       type: rawEdge.type ?? 'normal',
       label: rawEdge.text,
+      labelType: rawEdge.labelType,
       labelpos: 'c',
       thickness: rawEdge.stroke,
       minlen: rawEdge.length,

packages/mermaid/src/rendering-util/rendering-elements/edges.js

@@ -26,12 +26,16 @@ export const getLabelStyles = (styleArray) => {
 export const insertEdgeLabel = async (elem, edge) => {
   let useHtmlLabels = evaluate(getConfig().flowchart.htmlLabels);
 
-  const labelElement = await createText(elem, edge.label, {
-    style: getLabelStyles(edge.labelStyle),
-    useHtmlLabels,
-    addSvgBackground: true,
-    isNode: false,
-  });
+  const labelElement =
+    edge.labelType === 'markdown'
+      ? await createText(elem, edge.label, {
+          style: getLabelStyles(edge.labelStyle),
+          useHtmlLabels,
+          addSvgBackground: true,
+          isNode: false,
+        })
+      : await createLabel(edge.label, getLabelStyles(edge.labelStyle), undefined, false);
+
   log.info('abc82', edge, edge.labelType);
 
   // Create outer g, edgeLabel, this will be positioned after graph layout

packages/mermaid/src/rendering-util/rendering-elements/shapes/util.ts

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import createLabel from '../createLabel.js';
 import { createText } from '../../createText.js';
 import type { Node } from '../../types.js';
 import { getConfig } from '../../../diagram-api/diagramAPI.js';
@@ -40,14 +41,26 @@ export const labelHelper = async <T extends SVGGraphicsElement>(
     label = typeof node.label === 'string' ? node.label : node.label[0];
   }
 
-  const text = await createText(labelEl, sanitizeText(decodeEntities(label), getConfig()), {
-    useHtmlLabels,
-    width: node.width || getConfig().flowchart?.wrappingWidth,
-    // @ts-expect-error -- This is currently not used. Should this be `classes` instead?
-    cssClasses: 'markdown-node-label',
-    style: node.labelStyle,
-    addSvgBackground: !!node.icon || !!node.img,
-  });
+  let text;
+  if (node.labelType !== 'string') {
+    text = await createText(labelEl, sanitizeText(decodeEntities(label), getConfig()), {
+      useHtmlLabels,
+      width: node.width || getConfig().flowchart?.wrappingWidth,
+      // @ts-expect-error -- This is currently not used. Should this be `classes` instead?
+      cssClasses: 'markdown-node-label',
+      style: node.labelStyle,
+      addSvgBackground: !!node.icon || !!node.img,
+    });
+  } else {
+    const labelElement = await createLabel(
+      sanitizeText(decodeEntities(label), getConfig()),
+      node.labelStyle,
+      false,
+      true
+    );
+    text = labelEl.node()?.appendChild(labelElement);
+  }
+
   // Get the size of the label
   let bbox = text.getBBox();
   const halfPadding = (node?.padding ?? 0) / 2;