---
title: "Custom Styles in GitHub Readme Files"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/custom-styles-in-github-readme-files-grjgsjy1
source_url: https://css-tricks.com/custom-styles-in-github-readmes/
type: article
source: "CSS-Tricks"
published: 2020-12-23T19:52:54.697Z
updated: 2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z
tags: ["general-programming", "github", "html"]
reading_time: 1
upvotes: 12
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Custom Styles in GitHub Readme Files

**[CSS-Tricks](https://daily.dev/sources/css_tricks)** · 1 min read · 12 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

GitHub Readme files are Markdown, and Markdown supports HTML. You can’t put <style> or <script> tags init. So you can't apply custom styles there. Or can you? You can use SVG as an <img src="./file.svg" alt="" /> (anywhere)

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