A fix for ugly long lines in fullscreen v2

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.CodeMirror-lines, .markdown-preview-view{
   max-width: var(--view-max-width);
   margin: auto; 
}

I found this can move the scrollbar to the edge of editor mode. But I cann’t do anything to the preview mode.

btw: how do you hide the scrollbar. I am newb…

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Thanks, folks, for the inspiration to implement this.

This selector chooses only the contents of both source and preview, as far as I can tell:

.CodeMirror-scroll, .markdown-preview-section {
    max-width: 40rem;
    margin: auto;
}
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That solved for me.

.CodeMirror-lines, div.markdown-preview-section {
  max-width: 800px;
  margin: auto;
}
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FYI this will likely be less of a problem in 0.7!

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While selecting the whole page there was a glitch, added ‘selected’ div as well.

.CodeMirror-lines, .CodeMirror-selected,  .markdown-preview-section {
  max-width: 700px;
  margin: auto;
}
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Which font are using? It looks really cool!

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Whose font? :thinking:

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I was responding to the OPs example. In the photo, I liked the font.

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I think it’s Lato.

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My Font:

Header: Avenir (It’s clean and looks cool)
Body: Open Sans (its easy to read)

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A post was split to a new topic: Can Obsidian open multiple edit panes simultaneously?

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So this is a nice solution for the preview mode; I can choose the max-width of the text, and the scroll bar is on the far right. However, now, in source view I have two scroll bars which is pretty ugly. Is there any way for edit mode to have this same feature (user specified width, scroll bar on the far right)?

.CodeMirror-scroll, .markdown-preview-section {
    max-width: 40rem;
    margin: auto;
}
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This thread represents quite an old problem + solution. Have you tried the “Readable line length” setting in Preferences → Editor?

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I don’t know if this is an intended behavior or design prerogative, but should the “readable line length” take into consideration the font size used in the editor/preview mode? I’m using a larger font because I’m getting a little blind, but due to the extreme width limitations in line length, I find myself with lines that have very few words.

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Good point —tagging in @Silver for clarification!

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I’m having a disproportionate amount of trouble selecting the sapan inside a
“CodeMirror-line”

<pre class=" CodeMirror-line " role="presentation">
<span role="presentation" 
 style="">||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||~
</span></pre>

The CSS above is suppose to brake at the “~”.
I’m a screenwriter and my notes requiere a limit on characters per line.

I’ve tried this so far:

.CodeMirror-line span{
   max-width: 570px;
}

This shouldn’t be this hard. I’m definitely doing something wrong.

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@KauDerK: if I understand your issue, you could try temporarily disable the span by deleting the relevant <, make your alteration, then put the < back in.

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I’m sorry I don’t totally follow, I’m that skilful at CSS.
" deleting the relevant <" do you mean: the actual CSS snippet on the inspector window?

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@KauDerK: there is no snippet in the inspector window. But that is not what I mean anyway.

In the code you posted there is <span role: delete the <, make your amendment, then put < back.

If that does not make the selecting any easier, take out the < in <pre class too, then put it back.

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Hi everyone,

Trying Obsidian right now, getting some customization setup and I got into this amazing conversation about the line width with the scrollbar.

I believe a better solution would be changing the default –file-line-width property from body element, as follows:

body {
  --file-line-width: 1100px;
}

This will keep the scrollbar on the right place, while it will make the content width larger.

Sorry for reviving the post, but I thought this could help somebody.

Thanks!

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