Links/hashtags within a block/parenthesis inline field swallow preceding text and are not rendered in Live Preview

Author: dznzCreated Jul 11, 2026Updated Jul 17, 2026
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What happened?

When adding links/hashtags to an inline field's value, the link ceases to be rendered in Live Preview once the cursor leaves the inline field, although the text after it is. Switching to Reading view displays the link rendered correctly, a switching to Source mode works as expected. Full-line fields are not impacted, probably because they don't do anything special with rendering in the first place.

EDIT 2: update description to include hashtags and left-token swallowing based on further testing.

Test Examples

markdown
Test block-style inline field: [test:: [[wiki-link]] for rendering]
Test parenthesis-style inline field: (test:: [[wiki-link]] for rendering)
Test block-style inline field: [test:: [foo](https://example.org) as non wiki link for rendering]
Test parenthesis-style inline field: (test:: [foo](https://example.org) as non wiki link for rendering)

What I'm seeing when in Edit view:

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Possible related bugs

I couldn't find anything precisely like what I'm seeing, although the following seems close:

DQL

No response

JS

javascript

Dataview Version

0.5.68

Obsidian Version

1.12.7

OS

Windows

Source: blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview