# Bug where color rending stops

**URL:** <https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/bug-where-color-rending-stops/49908>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [17 May 2026 20:13 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/bug-where-color-rending-stops/49908 "2026-05-17T20:13:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![bryanwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@bryanwi](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/bryanwi)\
**Post date:** [17 May 2026 20:13 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/bug-where-color-rending-stops/49908/1 "2026-05-17T20:13:44Z")

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### Operating system

Windows

### Joplin version

3.6.13

### Desktop version info

Joplin 3.6.13 (prod, win32)

Device: win32, Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-14900K  
Client ID: eff1759ca7794ddfa05f56822b571b51  
Sync Version: 3  
Profile Version: 49  
Keychain Supported: Yes  
Alternative instance ID: -  
Sync target: Joplin Cloud  
Editor: Markdown

Revision: 7e21762

Freehand Drawing: 4.3.0  
Math Mode: 1.0.0  
Templates: 3.0.0

### Sync target

Joplin Cloud

### What issue do you have?

Tried the select color text plugin, and it worked fine for body text.  
Then I tried to put color in title text, that didn't work.  
But it also BROKE (apparently) all html rendering.  
Such that test  
Show "test" as simple black text. As though ALL html interpretation was turned off.

I've tried clearing the tmp file, restarting multiple times with plugins turned off, exiting all instances of firefox, etc.

Is there some other thing to reset to make the basic function work again?  
(Some other cache or service to clear or restart?)

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**Author:** ![laurent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@laurent](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/laurent)\
**Post date:** [17 May 2026 20:17 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/bug-where-color-rending-stops/49908/2 "2026-05-17T20:17:33Z")

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Could you please share a screenshot of the bug so that we can more clearly see what the issue is?

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**Author:** ![bryanwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@bryanwi](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/bryanwi)\
**Post date:** [17 May 2026 20:29 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/bug-where-color-rending-stops/49908/3 "2026-05-17T20:29:50Z")

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By deleting and reinstalling the colorize plugin (and some other random fiddling) I have apparently fixed it. Which means no I cannot take a screen shot. (very frustrating) - if it happens again I'll seek to do that. (Actually I'll make a really small repro note)

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**Author:** ![bwat47](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/bwat47/32/25073_2.png) [@bwat47](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/bwat47)\
**Post date:** [17 May 2026 22:43 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/bug-where-color-rending-stops/49908/4 "2026-05-17T22:43:18Z")

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I might have found the issue, there appears to be a bug with the inline html rendering, where the rendering of inline html can break if you insert html tags without putting any text between them, and then click outside of the tags:

> <https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/15467>
>
> \### Operating system
> 
> Windows
> 
> \### Joplin version
> 
> 3.7.1
> 
> \### Desktop version in…fo
> 
> Joplin 3.7.1 (prod, win32)
> 
> Device: win32, Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 7 256V
> Client ID: eb59b7170f2e4e299d5cbbd98eace846
> Sync Version: 3
> Profile Version: 49
> Keychain Supported: Yes
> Alternative instance ID: -
> Sync target: S3
> Editor: Markdown
> 
> Revision: 95a53f6
> 
> Backup: 1.5.1
> Codeblock Autocomplete: 1.2.4
> Context Utils: 1.5.0
> Copy as HTML: 1.6.2
> Extra Markdown editor settings: 1.11.0
> Heading Levels: 1.0.5
> Heading Navigator: 0.6.6
> Journal: 2.0.0
> Markdown Alerts and Formatting Commands: 1.6.3
> Note Tabs: 1.4.0
> Paste HTML as Markdown: 1.1.10
> Rich Tables: 1.8.5
> Simple Image Resize: 1.5.19
> Space Indenter: 0.2.6
> Wrapped Line Indentation: 1.1.1
> 
> \### Current behaviour
> 
> Steps to re-create (markdown editor with render markup setting enabled):
> 1. somewhere in the document insert: \`\<sub\>subscript\</sub\>\`
> 2. this should render subscript as expected
> 3. somewhere else in the document insert: \`\<sub\>\</sub\>\`
> 4. Move your cursor out of those empty \`sub\` tags
> 
> As soon as you move your cursor away, all inline html rendering seems to stop working (see below video). It only starts working again if you insert some text in the empty tags and then toggle to the rich text editor and back
> 
> https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8808f767-1b4c-487b-afbb-472754619fa9
> 
> \### Expected behaviour
> 
> 1. Inserting empty html tags should not break inline html rendering.
> 2. also, similar to https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/15425, the html tags should probably stay rendered in the editor when there's no content between them
> 
> \### Logs
> 
> \_No response\_

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**Author:** ![bryanwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@bryanwi](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/bryanwi)\
**Post date:** [18 May 2026 01:39 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/bug-where-color-rending-stops/49908/5 "2026-05-18T01:39:19Z")

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I was experimenting kind of randomly, including trying to put inline htm for colored text in the title of the note (that seemed to be what caused the break).

So the bug you site may well be the issue.

I eventually got it to work again, but I cannot say what I did.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/3X/1/c/1c948e33314e232a0927789508474d8624f4270b.png) [@system](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [17 June 2026 01:39 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/bug-where-color-rending-stops/49908/6 "2026-06-17T01:39:28Z")

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