# Inline HTML rendering improvements

**URL:** https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/inline-html-rendering-improvements/50191
**Category:** Features
**Created:** [13 June 2026 18:26 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/inline-html-rendering-improvements/50191 "2026-06-13T18:26:54Z")
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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: [13 June 2026 18:26 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/inline-html-rendering-improvements/50191/1 "2026-06-13T18:26:54Z")

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Just a few suggestions for improvements to the inline HTML rendering in the markdown editor:

1. Not sure if this one would be considered a feature request or a bug, but `style="background-color: color"` should render as background color instead of text color. Currently both `style="color: color;"` and `style="background-color: color"` render as text color in the editor (works as expected in the viewer) :

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/3X/d/f/dfc7af5a0a23eed0c13e78cb6d4b355885c64ccc.png)

This would allow for easy custom highlight colors in the markdown editor

2. Support `<ins>` syntax for underlined text, currently this doesn't render as inline HTML in the markdown editor:

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/3X/5/2/52661252c3586c9f1af521518162e061bdae56d1.png)

While you can use ++insert++ to get underlined text in the markdown editor, its a somewhat obscure syntax and inline HTML is more widely supported

Also, the Rich Text editor uses `<ins>` for underline, so this would allow better interoperability between the editors.