I cant see css in canvas cards

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What I’m trying to do

Hello. I cant write or even see css in canvas cards. Even in canvas-candy tutorial, they are empty for me. When i write — it turns to the line and then everything else turns into Title.

Things I have tried

ive tried \ and space and everything inside card. Turned on and off. New vault also. I see how it works in internet, why it looks so different?

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Check this list:

  • some plugin overwrites your css
  • some theme overwrites your css
  • your css is outdated bc your version of Obsidian newer
  • your css throws errors, so rules can’t be applied
  • try to install a fresh copy of Obsidian from its main page, instead to use Obsidian’s build-in updater
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It is not clear from your question but apparently you are trying to use canvas-candy.

I cloned the repo and observed the following problems:

  • Frontmatter is not visible in the cards when you click on them, because the setting “Editor → Properties in document” is set to “Hidden”. It should be “Source”
  • This repo uses a syntax for cssclasses that is not compatible with current Obsdian versions. A comma separated sequence of classes no longer works. It has to be translated into a proper yaml list. At some points it uses cssclass instead of cssclasses which has been deprecated.

I created a fork of the original repo and fixed these problems. I also removed the blur applied to the drop-shadow effect, because it is not required and had the side effect of blurring a bit the content too.

My fork is here → GitHub - jldiaz/obsidian-canvas-candy: Enhances the visual capabilities of Obsidian's Canvas feature

I’ve done a PR to the original repo.

UPDATE (2025-07-19) My pull request was aacepted and merged into main repo. You only have to download the latest version.