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**Category:** Suggestions\
**Created:** [October 15, 2022, 1:36pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/button-to-insert-html-at-selected-text/23922 "2022-10-15T13:36:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:**  [@hmor](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/hmor)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2022, 1:36pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/button-to-insert-html-at-selected-text/23922/1 "2022-10-15T13:36:36Z")
I would like to suggest a feature present in AnkiDroid.
You can create toolbar buttons to add custom HTML(or text) before and after the selection.
As shown in the picture below
Thanks
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**Author:**  [@dae](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/dae)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 1:28am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/button-to-insert-html-at-selected-text/23922/2 "2022-10-17T01:28:34Z")
The plan is to eventually integrate the desktop editor into the mobile clients, so this would need to come to the desktop first.
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**Author:**  [@hmor](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/hmor)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 2:25am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/button-to-insert-html-at-selected-text/23922/3 "2022-10-17T02:25:48Z")
I see. Thanks!
I would suggest as alternative an option to do not increment the cloze number. That’s my use case.
It exists as a desktop shortcut. On mobile it could be a configuration option to enable/disable the increment.
it’s tedious to change all the numbers one by one.
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**Author:**  [@dae](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/dae)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 5:06am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/button-to-insert-html-at-selected-text/23922/4 "2022-10-17T05:06:25Z")
A long press on the cloze icon will add another with the same number.
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**Author:**  [@Kazue](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Kazue)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 7:31am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/button-to-insert-html-at-selected-text/23922/5 "2025-01-17T07:31:00Z")
May I bring this up again?
How would I go about proposing that such a function be added to Anki Desktop (add a toolbar item to add some user-defined html before and after the selected text that you can click, just like bold or italics)? I’m using it to mark some of my text with a different div class in a field, so having to manually type it out everytime in Anki Desktop is a bit tedious.
I also tried searching around for an addon that would let me add such a function, but couldn’t find anything.
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**Author:**  [@dae](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/dae)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2025, 7:08am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/button-to-insert-html-at-selected-text/23922/6 "2025-01-18T07:08:01Z")
Such a feature is likely to come in the future - I believe AnkiDroid already implements this, and we’ll need it when migrating the editor to mobile platforms.
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**Author:**  [@Kazue](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Kazue)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2025, 5:41pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/button-to-insert-html-at-selected-text/23922/7 "2025-01-18T17:41:29Z")
Yes, that’s why I’m asking. It’s already there in AnkiDroid and I was very surprised that I couldn’t find it neither in Desktop Anki nor as an addon. Happy to hear it’s likely going to be added in the future!