Callouts#

A callout is a block quote whose first line declares a type. Scoria renders them with Obsidian's type colors and honors their fold state.

> [!note]
> An ordinary note.

> [!warning] A title of its own
> The text after the first line is the body.

> [!tip]- Folded by default
> This content starts collapsed.

> [!info]+ Expanded by default
> This content starts open, and can be collapsed.

The syntax, precisely#

The first quoted line must be [!type], optionally followed by - or + and then optionally a title:

With no title, the type's own name is used as the title.

Three details decide whether you actually get a callout, and they are Obsidian's:

• The type is trimmed, so > [! bad] is a callout of type bad.
• > [!tip]Title, with no space, is not a callout — it is an ordinary block quote.
• An id can be attached to a callout by putting ^id at the end of its header line.

The built-in types#

Each has a color and an icon slot in Obsidian, and several have aliases that canonicalise to the same type:

A type Scoria does not recognize still renders as a callout, with the default appearance and the type name as its title — the same as Obsidian, and the reason a custom callout type from a theme or snippet degrades gracefully rather than vanishing.

While editing#

In Live Preview, a callout's [!type] marker is folded into its title, so the callout reads as a callout while you write it. Put the cursor in the header line and the source returns.

Next#

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