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. :smiley:

[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 text goes here 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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I agree that we have to have the color tags back.

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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>

[Scure21]

+1 yes, please!

[arcusfelis]

Please, don't add "+1" comments to the issue. And to any issue on github in general. Just add thumbs up to the first comment.

Because otherwise a big group of people would be notified over email with your comment.

[mhyousefi]

Really? It is 2018 and we can't color our texts in GitHub Readmes???

[thiemve]

I am so glad people continue to wish for this development Hope it will actually come true one day

[Endor8]

Yes this is something I really miss. Please at the possibility to modify the text color. Thanks

[E3V3A]

Apparently nobody GaF here... Even suggesting to reopen a closed issue that was wrongly closed without any reason. (Let's do it the old fashioned MS way, put our head up our * and pretend the problem doesn't exists.)

[JawsomeJason]

@E3V3A Maybe we just need to try it on Windows 10 🤣

[PeterKneale]

This might help:

![Status: **Not yet implemented**](http://placehold.it/350x65/FF0000/FFFF00.png&text=Not+yet+implemented) 

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11509830/how-to-add-color-to-githubs-readme-md-file

[montanaflynn]

I also would like to have github flavored markdown allow css styling, including background color if possible:

https://github.com/montanaflynn/github-colors/tree/new-go

Should look like this:

[arthurxavier]

+1

[sonaaliM]

Still waiting for this to be resolved

[EPiC-APOC]

+1

[praweb]

+1

[jorgedfbranco]

+1

[matheusft]

+1

[AzySir]

Please re-open this and provide an update. It's a handy functionality and many people have expressed interest!

[a2sheppy]

I'll pile on to say that I have significant need for this capability for my work.

[dyasny]

+1

[AzySir]

@dyasny good luck - Sounds like no one wants to touch this. Maybe Microsoft employed someone who would be willing to take on the challenge ;)

[ghost]

This is ridiculous - how hard can it be to add the ability to allow <span style="color: red;">text</span> into the markdown - what is the point of allowing issues to be raised if no one actually gives two hoots about them, when there is obviously a lot of people who would benefit from this feature?

[davidalexandercurrie]

+1

[algirdask]

+1

[fearphage]

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[jeffreydwalter]

I'll +1 this to be annoying like the lazy Github developers that have kicked this can down the road for 5+ years... Why can't you guys add some basic support for coloring text?!? It's way past ridiculous already.