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kizu

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Frontend engineer working on Datadog's design system.

CSS is love.

Ask me about: #CSS, #Frontend, #DesignSystems

Located in France. He/him.

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Fixing Obsidian’s Markdown Display with CSS

https://blog.kizu.dev/fixing-obsidians-markdown-display-with-css/

A new blog post in my blog: I am sharing a snippet I wrote for , which makes the default Markdown display better for me by always showing the corresponding formatting symbols.

@obsidianmd @obsidian

A video showing how Obsidian handles the markdown by default: when the caret moves, it shows previously hidden markdown formatting, making it so the text jumps a lot due to the new symbols appearing.
A video showing how Obsidian handles the markdown with my CSS snippet applied: most markdown formatting is shown by default, so almost nothing jumps when the caret moves, with an exception for the link, which shows the

kizu,
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@dja @obsidianmd @obsidian Thanks!

I wish this was available as a built-in option, as it does not work for all the cases like nested strong inside em, but better than nothing I guess.

I did not yet look into if there would be something additional possible through the plugin API — if it will allow altering how the formatted markdown tags look with the access to their source code (like, access to the markdown AST or something), a plugin fixing this properly could be also be possible.

kizu,
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@vasilis @obsidianmd Yep, I did mention it in the post — I want to see both the markdown formatting, and the embeds, with links working as usual, etc.

In the “Source Mode” I have to press cmd when going through links, and I cannot see any images and other embeds.

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