Hotkey to color selected text

[mukerjee]

Things I have tried

Coloring text using HTML directly - eg if I want text to be red, <font color=red>foo</font>

What I’m trying to do

Is there a hotkey I can use to change the color of a selected text block? Or wrap that text block in ? Thanks!

[Felipe]

Hello @mukerjee !

Take a look at the Multi-Line Formatting Plugin

• GitHub - nmady/obsidian-multi-line-formatting: Format Obsidian text over an entire selection, even if that selection has paragraph breaks in the middle!

Or this might worth taking a look: Markdown Attributes

• GitHub - valentine195/obsidian-markdown-attributes: Add attributes to elements in Obsidian

I think it is what you want.

Have a great day!

[summer]

Maybe you can use the “text snippets” plugin. And set the snippets like this:

red : <font style="color: #d83931">$end$</font>

Then use the plugin hotkey to fill it with fonts which you want to color.

[sopi]

Maybe this will help you:

Compatible highlighting with more colors—and fast!

Compatible & fast highlighting with more colors Now some of us have been looking for a good way to highlight text in more than one color. Here’s how! This will require a little setup, but work fast and painlessly using text selection and hotkeys. Plus, it will generate Markdown that’s compatible with almost any non-Obsidian tool. A short video shows how it looks like and how it’s used. What’s needed Templater plugin installed and enabled Hotkeys for templates plugin installed and enabled h…

[jackyjoy123]

@summer

Maybe you can use the “text snippets” plugin. And set the snippets like this:

red : <font style="color: #d83931">$end$</font>

Then use the plugin hotkey to fill it with fonts which you want to color.

thanks for the awesome information.

[trimple]

You can use the templater plugin.

The template you want will look something like this:

<font color=red><%tp.file.selection()%></font>

After that, you can go to any file, select the text you want to color, press Alt+E, choose this template and you will get your text embedded into the HTML.
After that, you can make as many templates for different colors as you want.