Remove highlight from starred searches

Feature requests
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Starring / naming search results is great and super flexible, but it would be nice to have the ‘highlight’ removed when you star it.

My use case… I have a saved search for “is: todo” that I use as top level task management. It works great for collecting all my stuff across all my projects (with context) but everything in the list is yellow because every item is a match.

Highlight is great for regular searches (like of tags) but once you start it, it becomes like a saved view and the highlight is distracting.

Thanks and thanks for making such a great product!

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You can use CSS to customize how the search highlights look. Here is the code to change all search results to a blue outline:

/* Replace Search item background highlight with blue outline */
.active.searching .fullMatch .contentMatch {
border: solid #3e92fc 2px;
border-radius: 4px; 
background-color: transparent;
padding: 0px 2px;
}

You could change the color or thickness of the line to make it even less obtrusive if you want.

I keep a library of CSS code snippets that I collect from the Workflowy Slack channel and other places. Feel free to peruse and use as you want. There is also a link for instructions on how to modify CSS for all WF platforms. It is easy once you get it set up.

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Thank you so much! I look forward to trying this out (and some of your other collected css as well).

Cheers!