Horizontal Scroll for Codeblocks not appearing (even in reading mode)

[CawlinTeffid]

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There’s a feature request, with possible workarounds in the comments:

Live preview: Better treatment of code blocks. Code Wrap, Horizontal Scroll and Smart Indent

The problems If you write anything more than hello world code in obsidian, it wraps the code and completely destroys readability. Well let me just write this code down for future reference so i can understand what it does and quickly get back to coding… [image] Oh well… This is not even that big of a codeblock, it looks big because its all wrapped up. By far the biggest problem. I’m assuming im not the only one who is bothered by this seeing how techsavvy a lot of the obsidian audience is…

Far down in the comments is an explanation of why it is the way it is:

Live preview: Better treatment of code blocks. Code Wrap, Horizontal Scroll and Smart Indent

Let me add here a quick note. This is a much harder problem that it seems because there is only one real editor view. There are two options right now: It’s either as it is now. Codeblock flow and are editable with rest of the text. Use the same trick used for Tables (use reader rendering while not editing) Specifically, codeblocks look like in reader (and you can have code wrap, horizontal scroll, prismjs highlight) but the moment you click anywhere to edit them they are “unpacked” to what …

Another thread has a CSS snippet that might still work (maybe the same as something in the other thread; I didn’t check):

Disable word wrap for code blocks?

I noticed this topic: Disable code block from Horizontal scrolling? about enabling word-wrapping for codeblocks. I have the opposite wish- I’d like my codeblocks to never softwrap. I mucked around enough to discover this bit of css that does it: .markdown-preview-view code { white-space: pre; } Problem is, the background box dimensions are still sized as if the text was wrapped. It just looks weird: [image] Does anyone know if it’s possible to control that background box and what property…