Color of quotation marks in VSC

[mbart13]

Hi All,

I recently switched from Webstorm to VSC and noticed my favorite theme looks different.
In Webstorm color of quotation marks is the same color as text, in VSC it's not, and looks rather strange.

Is there some custom setting I can change to make quotations in VSC look like in Webstorm?

Here is comparison:

Webstorm

VSC

[mbart13]

anyone?

[arcticicestudio]

Hi @mbart13 👋, thanks for your contribution 👍

To be true, the rendering from VSC is the style that this theme aims for. It uses the correct colors for punctuation elements (quotes, equal sign) so that the actual string value can be better recognized.
Even when the JetBrains products are way more advanced in many aspects, the highlighting rules for HTML are a bit lean. There is currently no way to differ between those elements but only assign a color for “attribute values“, which also simply applies to the equal sign and quotes.

If you'd like to change the style for VSC, please read the documentation about how to override styles with customizations.

[mbart13]

I know this link, but how do I know which property I need to override?

[arcticicestudio]

There are no links added in Nord's documentation to the official VS Code documentation yet, but VS Code comes with tools like the scope inspector that can be used to inspect TextMate syntax tokens and scopes.

[svengreb]

Thank you for your patience! 🙏🏼
It‘s been a while since I had free time to focus more on Nord, and my open source projects in general, and invest time in this issue due to work-life balance.

I recently published the first “Northern Post — The state and roadmap of Nord“ announcement which includes all details about the plans and future of the Nord project, including the goal of catching up with the backlog. This issue is part of the backlog and therefore I want to triage and process it to get one step closer to a “clean state“. Read the announcement about reaching the “clean“ contribution triage state in Nord‘s discussions for more details about the goal.

Due to the scope of this issue of not being “purely technical“, or being related to the project‘s code at all, I‘ll convert it into a discussion for Nord‘s central community hub on GitHub. This way the repository is easier to maintain by separating conversations about the actual code while also making help requests, ideas and other contributions from users more visible and supportable by the community.

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@mbart13 Thanks again for your contributions 🚀
Changes like this can be, like already mentioned, made by customizing the theme to fit your needs.
I‘ll close this discussion since this is a user-side related solution.