There’s a great article on Gwern Branwen’s Website on different ways to implement sidenotes. There might be something in there to help you play with it some more.
Can Obsidian dev team consider making a CSS Snippet store, in constras to entire themes. This would be excellent for us to further customize and promote beautiful CSS snippets, such as the ones here.
Terrific, seeing your CSS code brought up the idea that this might also be possible with https://remixicon.com.
Might give a more consistent look with the style of Obsidian.
But I have to dive into that to find out how.
Edit: I tried a few things, but this is above my CSS knowledge skills
I succeeded in getting Remixicon visible before folder names.
But… it’s quite a hacky solution, because I don’t have deep knowledge of CSS.
If you have a better solution please post.
You will have to adapt it to your theme and font sizes.
The below code is to make it work for California Coast theme.
Also don’t forget to change the name of the folder in the first line of CSS for your own folders’ name.
It’s more likely than not that for other themes you have to change the background-size, translate value, height, width and margin values to make everything line up nicely.
.nav-folder.mod-root>.nav-folder-children>.nav-folder>.nav-folder-title[data-path^="Timestamped"] .nav-folder-title-content::before {
content: ' ';
background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 24 24' width='24' height='24'%3E%3Cpath fill='none' d='M0 0h24v24H0z'/%3E%3Cpath d='M17 3h4a1 1 0 0 1 1 1v16a1 1 0 0 1-1 1H3a1 1 0 0 1-1-1V4a1 1 0 0 1 1-1h4V1h2v2h6V1h2v2zm-2 2H9v2H7V5H4v4h16V5h-3v2h-2V5zm5 6H4v8h16v-8z'/%3E%3C/svg%3E");
background-size: 14px 14px; /* adopt this to your file tree font height */
transform: translate(0px, 4px); /* to position the icon */
background-repeat: no-repeat;
display: inline-block;
height: 16px;
width: 16px;
margin: -4px 2px 0 0;
}
I have been thinking if it would be possible to use the icons that the plugin Obisidian Icons (in installed) pulls in but I couldn’t find out how. If anyone has an idea for this?
Okay for a strange thing, on my computer the website was about to ship icon for IOS.
On IOS I have the good site… Strange.
Also, I edit your snippet using iconify with the css and simple content. I change the color to white and use only the link.
It works pretty well! I just need to check if I can use the currentColor or any var (to avoid edit the snippet each time I change my theme).