Adjustable "Readable Line Length"

[ariehen]

Maybe this request can be merged into an older one. We’ll see what the team and other mods think:

Adjustable "Readable Line Length"

Have you searched for an existing request? Use case or problem If the “Readable Line Length” is checked, the max-length is locked( in my case, the value is 700px), and the max-length in the .css will not work. In case the user want to have longer line length, it is impossible. By uncheck this option and using the css code provided in: the “Adjustable Readable Line Length” can be implemented. But there should be a more user-friendly way to do this. Proposed solution Provide a method for t…

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There are heaps of older snippets floating around, so I’ll just add the easiest way to do this with CSS snippets (as of 2025 January) and almost all themes※ is using the --file-line-width variable. Readable Line Length needs to be enabled in Obsidian’s settings for these to work. For all the notes in a vault:

body {
    --file-line-width: 1000px; /* default is 700px */    
}

For adjusting individual notes using the cssclasses Property:

.wide-view {
    --file-line-width: 1000px;    
}

.max-view {
    --file-line-width: 100%;
}

※ The Minimal theme is the only one I know of that requires a slightly different snippet if you don’t want to use their built-in wide or max cssclasses.