No longer possible to color text in Markdown

[peterflynn]

Earlier, GFM allowed you to create colored text this way:
<font color="red">Status: **Not yet implemented**</font>

That used to work. But at some point the <font> tag was removed from the HTML sanitization whitelist.

I suppose it got removed because it's deprecated in HTML5. (Aside: the color attribute is still on the whitelist. Should it be removed too? As far as I know, there's no other HTML tag it can be used on...)

So, can we have a new supported way of coloring text in sanitized GFM now?

Here's one possibility: allow a very strict use of style for setting colors. Only attributes that exactly match the form style="color: #xxxxxx" would be permitted. For something as constrained as that, you could enforce it with a simple regexp like ^color:\s*#([0-9a-fA-F]{3}|[0-9a-fA-F]{6})$.

[bkeepers]

Thanks for the request. This gem only handles markup to HTML conversion, but I've logged your feature request for our design team to consider.

[nogweii]

Any news on this? Has there been a decision? Hopefully, this will be supported. 😃

[perlygatekeeper]

I second that opinion. Actually and way to color text would be great.

[bertenator]

Third!

[chuckh]

Fourth.

[JpotatO]

Me too I support this feature, it can be great to at last color the text, but using style="" to set the colors is better for me, I normaly use with <em></em>,<strong></strong>, <u></u>, <s></s>… well mainly text format', or in <blockquotes> too, but it don't work on github…

Adding a way to add a background color can be great too, when I make <table></table> it can be hard to easily see the entries and separators <th></th>.

[amnotafraid]

Yes, please!

I like to write color-coded documentation. When I document a complicated set of instructions, I like to put a list of the parameters that are needed at the beginning and then give each parameter it's own color.

[paulnakroshis]

Plus, for commenting student jupyter notebooks, it would be awesome to write my comments in color.

[bala-sridaran]

I agree that we have to have the color tags back.

[paulnakroshis]

For the time being, I can use <span style=“color:green;”> text goes here</span> Which allows html to render the text…but some markup simplicity would go a long way here… Another item that would be nice would be to be able to color the background color of a Jupyter notebook cell…

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[JarrettBillingsley]

@paulnakroshis really? I can't use that at all.. the style attribute is disallowed.

[SnchitGrover]

+1

[sunlee-newyork]

+1

[ludzzz]

No news about this request ?
GFM won't get colorized text anymore?

[cklie]

+1

[Narvey]

@cklie etc: You guys are commenting on a closed issue, which won't do any good. This is also the wrong repo.

The relevant issue to support would be html-pipeline#287, as that is the repo that actually does the HTML filtering.

EDIT: this is incorrect, see below.

[Khalilsqu]

please color

[E3V3A]

@Narvey

You guys are commenting on a closed issue, which won't do any good. This is also the wrong repo.

1. Why did you close it, if it is not resolved?
2. The issue you linked, refer back to you guys as using a "different whitelist".
3. THIS is the github repo, so why do you say it's wrong??

[Narvey]

@E3V3A I was wrong about the other repo, I read that this filtering was done elsewhere, but either that was wrong to begin with, or has changed since 2015.

I have no idea why it was closed. @bkeepers, is there a Trello board or something else that this is being tracked on, or should we reopen it here?

[tecz]

Four years later--is there still no way to color text in a GitHub readme or some sort of whitelist of what's allowed so I can at least try to hack together a solution?

Filtering out certain HTML/CSS attributes is completely understandable, but I have a few projects with use-cases involving the ability to change the font size and font color in a few readme files. Is this ever going to be possible, or do I need to look into utilizing another tool to accomplish this?

README.md files on GitHub can be so incredibly convenient to use, but it always feels like there's something I need that the web interface makes weirdly impossible to do (e.g. color text, print a README file without all of the chrome)...

[didix21]

I do not understand why text color is not possible on github when so many people is demanding it...

[patheticcockroach]

I remember 20 years ago in basic HTML we could already have colors on the Internet. This is so modern. 🙄

[tecz]

GitHub is such an awesome service, but it's easy working somewhere like GitHub to forget that a lot of the rest of us are stuck working with managers who will specifically ask "this documentation is great, but can you make that text red?" or "how do I print this readme without all of the other crap on it?"

[JarrettBillingsley]

I eventually gave up and decided to use GH pages + jekyll. It's great, and multimarkdown is even better than GFM.

[akskuchi]

this would totally be a killer feature! would be great if it is prioritized

[bogdanpolak]

+1 for: <span style=“color:red;”> text </span>

[alec42]

+1 Please add colours

[volkantash]

As a workaround, you guys can use something like this ⬇️
![#FF0000](https://placehold.it/15/FF0000/000000?text=+)

It will display this:
#FF0000

My work. Thanks. 💯

[baryluk]

I would love color support in text too, I have a command line utility that utilizes ANSI color for terminal output, and it is a main feature of it, as it without it is less usable. And to showcase it in README.md properly, I need to put a screenshot, which is silly a bit.

Having it be a text, would make it easier to update it automatically on code changes, make it more accessible, response to background color changes better, and probably make it be a little more SEO / search friendly, and make it more friendly on mobile.

[paquinmathieu]

hi, so Github, what's up with text color? At least integrate the <span style="color:red"> RED TEXT </span> to work... using the diff option works, but... its not fun to use.

Please

[GiuseppeChillemi]

Colors are the best thing in life, we don't want a B&W one. Computers had their sad monochrome days, then came the happiness with colors, why going back?

[deelawson11]

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[paquinmathieu]

I am so tired of this shit. My hacker uses your website along with his 10 aliases. Can't you get him to stop hacking me. This has been going on for almost 10 yrs. It's actually stalking EU commission wants me to get the local police involved. I don't want to but I guess that's where it is going. His name is Derek Pate but I don't think he uses that name. Just so he stays out of trouble.

wow, you are completely confused. This ain't the support channel. This is about colored github issues. Completely unrelated

[eberamp]

Welcome 2021, still no colors...

[EasyG0ing1]

This is a closed request. Literally, every comment in here for a long time now has fallen upon deaf ears.

I think a new request needs to be opened. Not sure why this one was closed.

[ddopson]

Instead of posting +1 here, please add your support to issue #1440.

[teshanshanuka]

2022 and still waiting... *sigh*

[Adventuresofbot]

We need colour text plz

[volkantash]

put in text editor: 8-10 color. No need custom color.

[paquinmathieu]

this issue is closed. I don't think github staff will be looking at your comments here. I suggest you comment here
#1440

[Adityaadpandey]

Yes you are right!!!

[magicse]

2023 and still waiting
#### $\textcolor{red}{\textsf{Color didint work .}}$

$\textcolor{red}{\textsf{Color didint work .}}$

[paquinmathieu]

dont comment here. Its useless.

this issue is closed. I don't think github staff will be looking at your comments here. I suggest you comment here
#1440

[patheticcockroach]

dont comment here. Its useless.

this issue is closed. I don't think github staff will be looking at your comments here. I suggest you comment here #1440

Frankly, I don't think commenting in the new issue is of much use either. They just couldn't care less, to stay polite.

[kratofl]

2023 and still waiting #### $\textcolor{red}{\textsf{Color didint work .}}$

Well, it does work now xD

[JianqiangDing]

2023 and still waiting #### $\textcolor{red}{\textsf{Color didint work .}}$

Well, it does work now xD

finally!!!

[Hapaxia]

2023 and still waiting #### $\textcolor{red}{\textsf{Color didint work .}}$

$\textsf{{\color[rgb]{0.0, 0.0, 1.0}I}{\color[rgb]{0.1, 0.0, 0.9}t~ }{\color[rgb]{0.2, 0.0, 0.8}d}{\color[rgb]{0.3, 0.0, 0.7}o}{\color[rgb]{0.4, 0.0, 0.6}e}{\color[rgb]{0.5, 0.0, 0.5}s~ }{\color[rgb]{0.6, 0.0, 0.4}n}{\color[rgb]{0.7, 0.0, 0.3}o}{\color[rgb]{0.8, 0.0, 0.2}w}{\color[rgb]{0.9, 0.0, 0.1}!}{\color[rgb]{1.0, 0.0, 0.0}!}}$

Note, however, that it's still unselectable or searchable as text.

[kunalspathak]

Looks like, this turns off the syntax highlighting in <details>

$\textcolor{red}{\textsf{Colored summary}}$

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