[2022-08-04 Thu 10:04]

I tried visually replacing a few Logseq tags with icons in CSS. It worked!

How’d I do it? Here I’ll just paste from my journal note figuring out the first one. I’m sure I’ll revisit this tonight after taking care of the day’s business.

• #idea Thinking about custom tag icons for logseq
  • #warning under construction #warning
  • Inspired by Obsidian Alternate Checkboxes CSS snippet

Here’s what #idea looks like in the dev console:

    <div
    class=""
    style="display: inline;"
    data-tooltipped=""
    aria-describedby="tippy-tooltip-119"
    data-original-title="null"
><a
        data-ref="idea"
        class="tag">#idea</a></div>
  

#question how do my installed plugins change the structure? : I don’t think I currently have any plugins that alter element attributes

Set up CSS Selector #bookmark to match a.tag[data-ref="idea"]

Hide the displayed tag by making it tiny

    a.tag[data-ref="idea"] {
    border: none;
    font-size: 0;
}
  

Append an icon with the font size we started at

    a.tag[data-ref="idea"]:after {
    content: "💡";
    font-size: initial;
}
  

as-is, this has accessibility issues and font-size: initial won’t work with headings. Also, to do it right I should be encoding the icon

I updated this page on 2025-09-06