Zotero 8 notes: inline color broken. Request source mode/Reader mode

SolveSaint
edited yesterday at 4:32am
In Zotero 8, inline text coloring in notes no longer works.

Observed outcome:
- Inline HTML such as <span style="color:#4da6ff">text</span> no longer renders with color.
- The HTML is treated as regular text and the span markup is written out instead of being interpreted.
- There appears to be a way to apply text color manually in the note editor, but selecting a color has no visible effect.

Result:
- Colored words from pasted content lose their coloring.
- Manual color application does not work.
- There is currently no way to preserve or apply inline color in notes.

Request:
Please consider adding a reader/editor or visual/source mode for notes, or a way to paste and preserve basic HTML semantics, so inline formatting is not silently lost.
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    I'm not sure what you mean here. "No longer" coming from what? Zotero's note editor isn't an HTML editor, and hasn't been since Zotero 6 in 2022. Referring to "inline HTML" doesn't make any sense in the context of the current editor.

    If you're specifically talking about copying text from somewhere, you should say that and provide steps to reproduce from a given webpage.
    There appears to be a way to apply text color manually in the note editor, but selecting a color has no visible effect.
    Can you explain exactly what you're trying and what's happening? The Text Color and Highlight Text options should be working fine, and are for me.
  • SolveSaint
    It seems like you understood it just fine as you hit the nail on the head. Color doesnt' work in the note editor whether created there or pasted there from something like coloring in the method that worked before zotero 8. Also attachment renaming is not working like it used to at all. So I kinda feel like you got the point since you reiterated it. So you got it right?
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    edited yesterday at 4:12pm
    You didn't respond to anything I said.

    I specifically said the Text Color and Highlight Text options are working fine for me. If they're not working for you, provide some screenshots and explain exactly what you're trying, step by step, along with a Report ID. Same with copying from a webpage.
  • adamsmith
    I don't know why the antagonistic attitude? dstillman asks specific questions -- if you think there's a problem you'd like fixed, you'd have to answer them.
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