Highlighted links are black instead of purple (don't follow accent color)

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Ubuntu, v0.9.22

Highlighted links are black, and thus have no contrast with regular text. Desired behavior would be purple, like all other links.

Screenshot from 2020-12-16 21-02-17

I searched and did not find another topic about this.

2

There is a difference in preview. We’ll see if we can fix this in the editor

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similarly, some themes make some text just bloody hard to see, and the previews don’t show that in advance: previews of themes probably should (if possible) include an explicit example of all forms of text highlighting, including links, footnotes, literal highlight markings, etc.

4

open a feature request for that. This is not the appropriate thread.

5

Any news on this? I’m seeing it in Obsidian Version 1.9.12 (Installer 1.9.12). This is in the sandbox vault and default theme.

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Steps to reproduce

Highlight text that contains bidirectional links.

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Expected result

The highlighted bidirectional linked text should be displayed in the theme color.

Actual result

The hyperlinked text in bold is displayed in black, just like the text that is not highlighted. 

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	Obsidian version: 1.13.4
	Installer version: 1.6.7
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	Language: zh
	Insider build toggle: off
	Live preview: on
	Base theme: adapt to system
	Community theme: none
	Snippets enabled: 1
	Restricted mode: off
	Plugins installed: 20
	Plugins enabled: 9
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		2: Clear Unused Images v1.1.1
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		4: File Explorer Note Count v1.2.4
		5: Image Toolkit v1.4.3
		6: Mousewheel Image zoom v1.0.24
		7: Minimal Theme Settings v9.0.0
		8: Quiet Outline v0.5.17
		9: Style Settings v1.0.9
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I can’t reproduce. Download and reinstall Obsidian. Post a screen recording of this happening in the sandbox vault

8

But the same issue occurs when I re-download the latest version of Obsidian on another computer, and even on iOS — it’s really strange. Also, uncreated links have color, but once created, they turn black.

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2d6299ee6834217a6f6f7c8a9bf1d4f1.mp4.zip (3.8 MB)

Here is the video I recorded on version 1.13.4. I noticed that this bug has been present since version 1.11.7.

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For folks bumping into this, this snippet seems to sort it out. It should only target internal links within highlights. Worth a try.

.cm-s-obsidian .cm-highlight.cm-hmd-internal-link,
.markdown-rendered mark > a.internal-link {
    color: var(--link-color);
}
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This snippet fixed most of my highlighted links, however, there were still a few in Reading mode that weren’t working. I am not a CSS guy but I inspected them and they had type .markdown-rendered mark .internal-link, so I simply added that to the snippet, and it fixed them too. Not sure if this is the “right” or “best” way to do it though.

.cm-s-obsidian .cm-highlight.cm-hmd-internal-link,
.markdown-rendered mark > a.internal-link,
.markdown-rendered mark .internal-link {
    color: var(--link-color);
}