Hi everyone, I’ve encountered a strange problem with night mode Anki. On some of my cards, part of the frontside text appears as a block, or as if the characters have been covered. But when I select the text, the characters become visible. What I’ve found so far: The issue only happens in night…

What does the html of that field look like (not the templates you showed us already)? Maybe it has some background-color styling applied, that isn’t visible in light mode but visible in dark mode.

[image] Thanks for replying, I checked the html and found the “background-color” thing. That explained the block. But I still wonder why some of my cards got this phrase while others don’t. Anyway appreciate the help!

[image] Kevin_Young: But I still wonder why some of my cards got this phrase while others don’t. If you copied and pasted text from a web page or some other application when creating these cards, this styling may have been copied from the original source.

Find & Replace should help you clean that up in your notes. Be careful not to remove any of the formatting you actually want, but it’s pretty safe to try things if you check them and Edit > Undo anything that turns out wrong. [It won’t hurt to make a fresh backup before you start too – File > Create…

To prevent this from ever happening again, turn on the option to paste as a plain text in the settings. You can still hold shift to paste with HTML.

Thanks for replying! But to clarify, I’m quite sure I didn’t get this phrase from website cause I typed them myself. Usually when creating new cards, I type the part-of-speech tag (<名> in this case) myself the first time, and after that I just copy the tag and paste it to new cards. So copy-paste is…

Thanks for your advice! I’ve already cleaned up the phrase and it’s all back to normal now.

Thanks! That’s really helpful. I never paid attention to html before. Although I’m pretty sure I didn’t get this phrase from external sources, I’ve already turn it on just in case.

[image] Kevin_Young: Usually when creating new cards, I type the part-of-speech tag (<名> in this case) myself the first time, and after that I just copy the tag and paste it to new cards. Read the discussion in this this topic for a detailed answer. But basically, Anki Desktop is treated lik…

Why does the text of my cards appear as a block in night mode?

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ZornHadNoChoice July 2, 2025, 1:19am 10

Read the discussion in this this topic for a detailed answer.

But basically, Anki Desktop is treated like a website. So you, in a sense, did copy paste from a website!

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Why does the text of my cards appear as a block in night mode?

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