Selection Format Toolbar

An Obsidian plugin that shows a floating formatting toolbar whenever you select text in the editor — no keyboard shortcuts or menus needed.

Features

Select any text (with the mouse or Shift+arrow keys) and a toolbar pops up above the selection with:

• Bold and Italic toggles
• H1–H6 — set the heading level of the selected line(s); click the same level again to remove the heading
• Highlight colors — six color swatches (yellow, green, blue, pink, orange, purple) that wrap the selection in a colored highlight, plus a ✕ button to remove it
• The text stays selected after each action, so you can chain formats (e.g. bold + highlight)
• Press Escape, scroll, or click elsewhere to dismiss the toolbar

Highlights use inline <mark> tags, so the colors render in both Live Preview and Reading mode.

Installation

From the community plugin directory

1. Open Settings → Community plugins in Obsidian
2. Click Browse and search for "Selection Format Toolbar"
3. Install and enable it

With BRAT (beta)

1. Install the BRAT plugin
2. Add avinashingit/selection-format-toolbar as a beta plugin

Manual

1. Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release
2. Copy them into YourVault/.obsidian/plugins/selection-format-toolbar/
3. Reload Obsidian and enable the plugin in Settings → Community plugins

Usage

1. Select some text in any note (source mode or Live Preview)
2. Click a button on the toolbar that appears:
   • B / I toggle bold and italic
   • H1–H6 set or clear the heading level
   • Color dots apply a highlight in that color; ✕ removes the highlight

License

MIT