Color Indicators in Markdown-Editor are gone

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Dear Community,

my question may seem a little dumb but I cannot figure out, why the color indicators within the Markdown-editor are gone all of a sudden. Everything is written in black and I didn't change any settings (on purpose).
I attached a picture, in case my description of the problem is unclear...

Can anyone help?

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  • version: Joplin 2.2.6 (prod, darwin)

Client-ID: 78832704148c45b696618d967ffe03be
Sync-Version: 2
Profil-Version: 39
Unterstützter Schlüsselbund: Ja

Revision: 60aca7b

  • operating system: macOS Big Sur
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This was a change in Version 2.2.2

  • Improved: Make Markdown editor styling closer to view styling (#5174)
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Thank you for the quick clarification!

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I observed the same thing in 2.2.6, no more colors in the markdown editor :frowning:

I liked the markdown editor colors in 2.1 and before, I think they made it a lot easier to visually parse the markdown in the absence of real markdown rendering.

Is there a way to get the colors back? Maybe some custom styles in userchrome.css? Where can I find the styles that were used in 2.1? I'd like to copy them back into my setup.

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I got them back by adding:

!important

to css.

Mine were lost when I upgraded to 2.2.6. I see 2.2.7 now out. I would upgrade first.

I'm a new user so I added userchrome .css file

.title-input {
	color: yellow !important; 
}

.cm-header-1 {
	color: salmon !important;
	}
	
.cm-header-2 {
	color: lime !important;
}

.cm-header-3 {
	color: orange !important;
}

.cm-hr {
	color: salmon !important;
}

Originally had !important on title but then had to add it to the rest.

Keith

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Thanks but do you also have the styles for the indented bullet points?

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Not off hand and I am not near a computer to work it out.

I kept the css simple at this stage.

Keith

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I've added some css to the customization wiki it should restore the previous colours for the light theme. Enjoy!

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So sad to hear that. Actually, "markdown code" is "code".

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I don't see why markdown code being code can't have any coloring to different bullet points etc. When creating different indentations for instance

- 
   - 
      -
         -
            -

These bullet points, do not change in joplin, there is no way to identify when you are 50-100 lines down, that you are aligning with 3rd or 4th bullet point without going all the way back to the start of the line and then indenting again afterwards.

I utilized the colors to help me maintain my organizational structure. This is ESPECIALLY so when editing documents on my phone.

I was intentionally skipping updates because I noticed the update took away the color, then the phone auto updates ofc, forces my server to update, then all of my clients are forced to update to sync unfortunately.

I see this as something that should be an option as I imagine a vast majority of users have gotten used to this being the default behavior for such a period of time. I find it strikingly odd that there isn't a tickbox to reimplement the colors somewhere or an easy option to get those colors back. This was a hell of a reason I started using joplin and have greatly appreciated this application. This certainly isn't a big enough change for me to stop using joplin, but it is a big enough change to greatly dissapoint me that it's been stripped out with no option of reverting when it's nothing but a CSS file.

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Closing in favour of the other thread, since we don't need two rant threads.