18 March: A new search bar style, better link editing, plus small improvements and fixes

We’ve added a new way to display your search bar, made it easier to edit or copy links in the editor, and made a big bunch of other improvements and fixes

✨ New and noteworthy

Search bar styles for published docs

There are now two search styles available for your published docs — Subtle and Prominent.

Subtle matches our existing style, with a small search bar in the top-right corner of the screen. Prominent moves the search bar to a central location in your site header, and makes the bar itself slightly wider.

You can change your search style in your site’s Customization screen. Head to the Layout tab and you can switch between the two styles using the dropdown in the Header section.

An easier way to edit and manage links

This release brings a better hover menu for links in the editor. The new menu makes it easier to open a link by clicking the URL below the text, and adds buttons to edit, copy and remove the link.

Improved

• The Toggle table of contents button is now easier to access. It’ll appear when you hover your cursor over the TOC, and remains visible when the TOC is collapsed making it easier to find again if needed.

• Following our recent expandable block updates, you can now also use GitBook AI within expandable blocks by hitting Space on an empty line and typing out a prompt.

• We’ve made some changes to our backend that improves performance when creating new change requests. You should notice that the time between clicking Edit and the editor appearing is reduced.

• You can now type [ then ] at the start of a line to create a task list — with or without a space between the two brackets. Before you had to add a space.

• We’ve added the Options button to empty blocks, allowing you to drag and drop empty blocks around on the page, or open the options menu.

• When you use / or @ in the editor, it opens up a context menu for inline content or an @ mention for another user. Now, you can press the right and left arrow keys on your keyboard to move the cursor on the page, or hit Esc to close the menu.

• We made some small tweaks to spacing in the editor, particularly to bring list blocks closer to the paragraph above them — which should make lists following text feel more natural.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue that meant not all spaces or sites would appear when installing an integration.

• Fixed triple-click selection in the editor. Now, when you triple-click, it will select the entire paragraph as expected.

• Fixed a bug that meant, when you removed a page icon in the editor, that change was not synced via Git Sync and the icon remained in the Git repository.

• Fixed an issue where the page icon would not show on small screens if the page had a long title.

• Fixed an issue that meant the space title was not visible in the header bar on smaller screens

• Fixed an issue where embedded content in the editor wouldn’t always display.

• Fixed an issue where integrations that used modals for configuration would not save after the modal closed.

• Fixed a bug that meant pasting copy with soft line breaks into the editor would remove the line breaks.

• Fixed the alignment of emoji with text in the editor. Now your emoji will align neatly with the rest of your text when added inline.

• Fixed an issue that meant that hitting Space in a the tab header of a tab block would activate GitBook AI.

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