#1

Hello guys,

I am currently moving from OneNote to Obsidian and I am used to indent after headings like the example below. Is it possible to do this in Obsidian?

What I expect:
Exemplo

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#2

I believe this will have to be implemented with custom css. I don’t know of any theme that behaves like this, but maybe you could tweak that yourself.

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#3

As far as I know, you cannot do this in plain markdown, but it is possible to make a CSS theme, with text-indent. I’ll make one for you, when I have the time. It won’t be too complicated.

#4

Wow. Quite the coincidence that we came with the same issue on the same day! I look forward to the CSS magic!

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#5

I ended up messing around with CSS and made this:

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You just need to add the following to your obsidian.css, changing the h# and indent size

.markdown-preview-view h3 
{
    text-indent: 1em;
}

The problem, of course, is that the following text isn’t indented in preview mode. I suspect that it isn’t possible to change…

#6

Yeah, that’s quite hard to do. I don’t know of any way to select everything after a certain element in CSS.

#7

Hmm, with the way the html is structured in both edit and preview mode, I’m not sure this is possible. Each formatted section, whether it’s a heading or a paragraph, is wrapped in a <div> and that wrapping element has no classes that identify what’s inside of it.

In short, there’s no way to know whether a paragraph section comes after a particular heading section. The only workaround I can think of is writing a lot of custom html into the markdown file.

The OP is more than welcome to make a feature request for this :grinning:

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#8

Yeah, seems like something that is beyond the reasonable (or even technical) possibilities of Obsidian. It was a useful experiment for me though - I’ll use the preview outline in my sidebar as a sort of table of contents for my various topic MOCs.

#9

Same here. I’m using more and more headings because I’m finding the outline so useful.

#10

To be clear, what I meant by this was an Index Page that uses indented and styled headings for organizing my MOCs. Each one is a link to the MOC index page (which I’m currently defining and then will populate), whereas the Outline Pane only brings you to that heading within the file. I have this Preview in the sidebar and linked to the main editor window, so when I open the sidebar and click, it brings me to that MOC.

I suppose you could do the same with bullets instead of headings, but I like the styling options that headings afford. I assume that the styling wont be desirable in general, so perhaps I’ll just keep this theme for when I’m doing heavy Indexing work.

Apologies if you already meant something similar.

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How it looks in the Outline Pane:

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#11

Thank vou very much, guys! I think I can work with outline to improve readability of my notes.

Obs: I have tried solutions in this post, but it did not work either

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46690572/indent-content-based-on-headings