Folks, Is there any way to reference in cards Anki “code” (CSS plus field references) contained in an external file? It seems from this thread that there must be: Put code in external text file . But I can’t tell from the thread how this works. Could someone explain that? The background is this. I …

Putting Anki "code" in an external file

dae April 18, 2024, 6:05am 2

CSS/JS can be placed in an external file, but field references must be placed directly in the template.

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