Tags format in frontmatter

[magento]

What I’m trying to do

Hi all,

I am new to Obsidian. Loving it so far!

Anyway I am having the following issue.

In the frontmatter tags can be displayed in one of the following ways:

tags: tagA, tagB

OR

tags:

• tagA
• tagB

I want them displayed the first way all in one line. This is because I have some dataview queries that list notes in my vault and I print the tags out with the link to the note. If I have the tags dislayed the second way above in the spread across multiple lines in my table.

If I edit my tags in source mode it keeps them all in one line. However, as soon as I edit them in preview mode or the file properties window it formats them in a list over multiple lines.

How can I fix this?

Thanks!

Things I have tried

I am using the metadata menu plugin and I have the setting for tags set to Array instead of list.

I also have turned off the section in the linter plugin that formats the tags.

[vanadium]

Unfortunatelly, the only way for now afaik is to manually edit your tags, i.e., set “Properties in document” to “Source” in Options - Editor - section “Display”. The graphical user interface will format them line by line, and there currently is no way to change that behavior.

[magento]

Ah Ok I suspected that may be the case as I played around with it for a while. And I believe that having them in an indented list is the way they usually are formatted in yaml.

Anyway thanks for the quick response

[tobbere]

You can use the Linter-Plugin. There is a setting in General > YAML tags section style > use “multi Line”. Then you can go to General > Lint on file change > “on”. This should format all your tags into mutli-line when you close or switch notes.