Style a paragraph directly

[einarpersson]

Description

I can style some text using a :::-block (adding a div) like so

::: { style="blablabl"}
some text
:::

With images I can style it directly like so

![](./img.png){ style="blablabl"}

But can I do something like this?

Some text { style="blablabl"}

It would be nice to have a way to style the paragraph directly and not having to resort to adding a wrapping div every time. I haven't been able to get it to work and I searched for it but couldn't find it (it's not that easy to know what to call it / search for)

[einarpersson]

Ah, found styling spans now, which although not styling the paragraph I think is good enough for most purposes.

[cscheid]

(Wow, that turns out to be harder than I thought, so thanks for question) Unfortunately, Pandoc's Para node lacks an attribute field, and so Quarto kind of fundamentally cannot add styles to paragraphs directly.

If you really must, then the solution is to write a Lua filter, but it will be a relatively ugly one: it will need to catch a Para containing a Span with the right style, and then emit a Plain node with a pair of RawInline HTML nodes containing <p style=...> and </p>. You'll have to be the one in charge of building the correct strings, and will need to worry about escaping, etc.