Canvas - Make Arrows & Labels Have Nodes

[RichardCoppin]

What is looks like you’re looking for is a way to create nodes with invisible borders.

You can get this effect by creating a css snippet with the following:

.canvas-node-container {
  border: none;
  text-align: center;
}

The nice part about this is that the default node has no border, and to add a border you just need to color the node.

Be warned! The effect is global to every canvas in your vault.

Take a look at this for more info:

Quick Guide: Customizing your canvas (rotating nodes, removing borders/backgrounds)

[image] While canvas is already a very useful tool and an excellent addition to Obsidian, it’s still missing some basic customization options. Until these features are added, this guide will provide some basic CSS to extend these options. Simply add any of these code examples into a new CSS Snippet. Targeting specific canvas elements To ensure our modifications don’t apply to every single element on our canvas, we need to add a custom CSS class to the YAML header of the note we have included …