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Text Formatting Toolbar

jsmorabitojsmorabito1k downloads

A floating formatting toolbar that appears above selected text in the editor.

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Text Formatting Toolbar

A floating formatting toolbar that appears above selected text in the Obsidian editor.

Features

When you select text in a note, a toolbar appears with one-click access to common formatting actions:

  • Text Style — set heading level (H1–H6) or paragraph
  • Bold, Italic, Strikethrough
  • Highlight — a plain ==highlight== toggle; on Obsidian 1.14+ this becomes a color menu (yellow, red, orange, green, blue, purple) using the ==🔴color-emoji== syntax
  • Link — wrap selection in a Markdown link
  • Wikilink - wrap selection in brackets
  • Inline Code / Code Block
  • Comment — wrap in Obsidian comment syntax (%% ... %%)
  • Lists — bullet list, numbered list, or checkbox
  • Blockquote
  • Copy / Cut

Installation

  1. Open Obsidian Settings → Community Plugins
  2. Search for Text Formatting Toolbar
  3. Install and enable the plugin

Settings

You can show or hide individual toolbar buttons under Settings → Text Formatting Toolbar.

Permissions

Clipboard access — the Copy and Cut buttons write your currently selected editor text to the system clipboard. The plugin never reads from the clipboard and never accesses content copied from outside Obsidian.

Credits

  1. https://github.com/quorafind/Obsidian-Mini-Toolbar
  2. https://github.com/Aidenlx/Obsidian-Mini-Toolbar

License

MIT

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Format highlighted text with a number of tools.
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Details
Current version
0.2.5
Last updated
3 weeks ago
Created
3 months ago
Updates
15 releases
Downloads
1k
Compatible with
Obsidian 1.13.0+
Platforms
Desktop only
License
MIT
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jsmorabitojsmorabito
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  1. Community
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  4. Text Formatting Toolbar

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