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5 changes: 0 additions & 5 deletions docs/app/styles.css
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padding-block: 1rem;
}

.demo .bn-editor a {
color: revert;
text-decoration: revert;
}

.demo code.bn-inline-content {
font-size: 1em;
line-height: 1.5;
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13 changes: 13 additions & 0 deletions docs/content/docs/react/styling-theming/overriding-css.mdx
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Expand Up @@ -42,3 +42,16 @@ BlockNote uses data attributes to target specific block types and properties:

- `[data-content-type="blockType"]`: Targets blocks of type `blockType`.
- `[data-propName="propValue"]`: Targets blocks with specific prop values. If the value is the same as the default value, the `data-propName` attribute will not be added.

## Links

Links in the editor use the browser's default link styling. BlockNote sets this with a rule of zero CSS specificity, so any `a` rule in your own stylesheet overrides it.

Tailwind's preflight reset also targets `a`. In Tailwind v4 the reset lives in a cascade layer, so BlockNote's rule still applies. In Tailwind v3 the reset wins and links look like plain text; restore them with:

```css
.bn-editor a {
color: revert;
text-decoration: revert;
}
```
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font-family: monospace;
}

/* Links keep the browser's default look (#2398). CSS resets such as Tailwind's
preflight set `a { color: inherit; text-decoration: inherit }`, which makes
links indistinguishable from text; `revert` restores the user-agent values.
`:where()` keeps the specificity at zero, so any `a` rule a consumer writes
wins regardless of import order, while Tailwind v4's preflight still loses:
it lives in a cascade layer, and unlayered rules beat layered ones. Tailwind
v3's preflight is unlayered and still wins; the styling docs show the
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Qualify the cascade-layer override guidance. :where() provides zero specificity, but the unlayered BlockNote rule still outranks normal declarations inside named cascade layers.

  • packages/core/src/editor/Block.css#L112-L115: describe the winning consumer case as an unlayered author rule.
  • docs/content/docs/react/styling-theming/overriding-css.mdx#L48-L50: replace “any a rule” with “any unlayered author rule” and explain layered-style placement.
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  • packages/core/src/editor/Block.css#L112-L115 (this comment)
  • docs/content/docs/react/styling-theming/overriding-css.mdx#L48-L50
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In `@packages/core/src/editor/Block.css` around lines 112 - 115, Update the
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docs/content/docs/react/styling-theming/overriding-css.mdx lines 48-50: describe
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override. The typst exporter mirrors the underline in its `show link` rule
(packages/xl-typst-exporter/src/typstExporter.ts). */
:where(.bn-editor a) {
color: revert;
text-decoration: revert;
}

/* NESTED BLOCK ANIMATIONS (change in indent) */

[data-prev-depth-change="1"] {
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion ...es/diagram-block/src/typst-exporter/__snapshots__/withDiagramMappings/diagramDocument.typ
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#set figure(numbering: none)
#show figure: set block(breakable: false)
#show figure.caption: set text(size: 9.6pt, fill: luma(110))
#show link: set text(fill: rgb("#0b6e99"))
#show link: it => underline(text(fill: rgb("#0b6e99"), it))
#let _cb-box(fill, stroke, tick) = box(baseline: 0.13em, width: 0.9em, height: 0.9em, radius: 2pt, stroke: 0.08em + stroke, fill: fill, tick)
#let _cb-unchecked = _cb-box(white, luma(148), none)
#let _cb-checked = _cb-box(rgb("#3183c8"), rgb("#3183c8"), place(top + left, curve(
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#set figure(numbering: none)
#show figure: set block(breakable: false)
#show figure.caption: set text(size: 9.6pt, fill: luma(110))
#show link: set text(fill: rgb("#0b6e99"))
#show link: it => underline(text(fill: rgb("#0b6e99"), it))
#let _cb-box(fill, stroke, tick) = box(baseline: 0.13em, width: 0.9em, height: 0.9em, radius: 2pt, stroke: 0.08em + stroke, fill: fill, tick)
#let _cb-unchecked = _cb-box(white, luma(148), none)
#let _cb-checked = _cb-box(rgb("#3183c8"), rgb("#3183c8"), place(top + left, curve(
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#set figure(numbering: none)
#show figure: set block(breakable: false)
#show figure.caption: set text(size: 9.6pt, fill: luma(110))
#show link: set text(fill: rgb("#0b6e99"))
#show link: it => underline(text(fill: rgb("#0b6e99"), it))
#let _cb-box(fill, stroke, tick) = box(baseline: 0.13em, width: 0.9em, height: 0.9em, radius: 2pt, stroke: 0.08em + stroke, fill: fill, tick)
#let _cb-unchecked = _cb-box(white, luma(148), none)
#let _cb-checked = _cb-box(rgb("#3183c8"), rgb("#3183c8"), place(top + left, curve(
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5 changes: 3 additions & 2 deletions packages/xl-typst-exporter/src/typstExporter.ts
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`#show figure: set block(breakable: false)`,
// Figure captions: smaller, muted.
`#show figure.caption: set text(size: 9.6pt, fill: luma(110))`,
// Links: BlockNote blue.
`#show link: set text(fill: rgb("#0b6e99"))`,
// Links: BlockNote blue, underlined like the editor's browser-default
// links (`:where(.bn-editor a)` in packages/core/src/editor/Block.css).
`#show link: it => underline(text(fill: rgb("#0b6e99"), it))`,
// Check-list marker symbols (used as per-item list markers).
CHECKBOX_MARKER_DEFS,
].join("\n");
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