How can I stop ![[...]] embeds from being hidden in Live Preview?

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Yeah, I don’t know a way to stop them from being hidden, but we can kind of fake it with some CSS. If you don’t add any alt/attribute text, the link content will show as is, but you can add your own text using attribute text. e.g.
![[321-note| the 321 note, yay!]]

.markdown-source-view .internal-embed:not(.media-embed)::before { 
    content: attr(alt); 
    font-size: 1em; 
    font-weight: 400; 
    color: hotpink; 
    padding-left: 1.5em; 
}
  • hotpink for demonstration of what’s added; probably want to change that. :smiley:
  • remove .markdown-source-view to have them shown in reading view as well (but it doesn’t sound like you want that)
  • change the content to content: "[["attr(alt)"]]" if you wanted to fake the brackets

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Here are some previous versions:

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/how-to-get-embedded-notes-to-use-the-modifier-for-the-title/99889/2

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/displaying-embedded-file-content/69337/3

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/is-there-a-way-to-show-pdf-file-name-while-it-is-displaying/98121/6

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