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Style Settings plugin support

Chris Gurney edited this page Apr 10, 2026 · 38 revisions

With the Style Settings ↗ plugin, it is possible to further customize the colors, positioning, sizing, spacing, and more of your toolbars, even if you don’t know CSS.

Usage

  1. Install the Style Settings plugin ↗ from Community Plugins and enable it.
  2. In settings: Community Plugins → Style Settings, expand the Note Toolbar section.

Tip

To see your changes more easily, open Style Settings in a new tab by running the Show style settings view command.

💡 Tips

General tips

  • In color pickers, the second slider allows you to set transparency.
  • To reset all changes, at the top to the right of "Note Toolbar" click the 🔄 icon (Reset all settings to default).
    • ⚠️ Note that it's not possible in that plugin to reset all styles (in particular colors) to the theme's styles, so you'll need to reset everything (or set the style).

Toolbars

  • Regarding transparency for the toolbar itself, or buttons/links on top of it:
    • When Position = Below Properties note content will be able to show through the toolbar, as the toolbar floats above it.
    • When Position = Top the toolbar is inserted underneath the tab's header. In this case, it's not possible to have a transparent background.

Floating buttons

  • Set the floating button's position to the top by setting the Y position on mobile to a smaller number, e.g., 20 works on an iPhone 15.

Menus

  • To be able to style menus, make sure this setting is disabled in Obsidian's settings: Appearance → Advanced → Native menus

More information about Style Settings

Get support for the Style Settings plugin here:

See also the #appearance channel on the Obsidian Discord: https://discord.com/channels/686053708261228577/702656734631821413


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