Indicate heading level

[provokateurin]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
It's often very hard for me to see what level a heading has. I always have to click on the heading and then check in the menu bar what level it has

Describe the solution you'd like
Some indicator on the side that shows the level of the indicator (doesn't have to be always visible, but as an option maybe)

[juliusknorr]

Do you have any suggestion or reference how other editors do this?

[provokateurin]

I don't know of any editor that does it. It could be display similar to the # that appears on the side when you hover over the heading.

[datenangebot]

Well, if you click on the heading the icon changes depending on the level:

But maybe it would be helpful and straight forward if we add the level indication to the hover effect on the left:

[provokateurin]

I think that is good, but just adding more # is ugly (imagine how H6 will look). We could just replace the # with Hx or #x

[datenangebot]

@jancborchardt @nimishavijay Any ideas on that?

[datenangebot]

might be okay as is

[provokateurin]

As is? There was no change, right?

[datenangebot]

As is? There was no change, right?

Yes, no changes. You wrote it's okay and adding more # seems to be senseless.
#4049 (comment)

[provokateurin]

Sorry, I just wanted to say that the screenshot looks good. I still want to have an indicator to see what level the heading has when the hover is active.

[nimishavijay]

The # that appears on the left of headings is to indicate an anchor tag so you can link directly to a section.

Is knowing the heading level required too often? There are not many other editors that show this information anywhere else other than the formatting bar either, so I'm wondering if we will be adding extra info on the page. What do you think @nextcloud/designers ?

[provokateurin]

At least for me it would be quite a useful information and relatively easy to display. If the designers say this is a bad idea we can close this of course.

[mejo-]

@provokateurin can you elaborate on why you need this information? I also think it's rarely important and it rather clutters the UI.

[provokateurin]

When I write my documents I create many heading levels and I usually directly forget what level the previous heading had, regardless of if i want to use the same level or a level lower or higher. Then I have to click back to another heading and check what the level is just to set the level of the new heading. It would be way easier if that information was already displayed on the side without having to click back again.

[marcoambrosini]

I think it's enough to show the heading in the top-bar once the text is selected.
We can maybe leave the issue open to see if this is a pain point for more users and if so, I would maybe prefer to offer a plain markdown view for such users instead.

[datenangebot]

plain markdown view

#3570