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Shubham Padia 7ce87c66ac help: Make loose lists tight for help center files.
In our current implementation, loose lists and tight lists look the same
visually. Loose lists are lists with blank lines between list items, and
the contents of a list item should be enclosed in a paragraph tag in
that case. For unordered lists, paragraph tags have a bottom margin in
starlight and thus looses lists look much more spaced out than tight
lists.

That is not the behaviour we had in mind while writing the
documentation, the reason we had all these loose lists is to make the
documentation easy to write and read. So we attempt to remove all the
blank lines and fix the problem at source. Since paragraph tags are used
for other purposes in a list in starlight, it won't be a wise decision
to let the source be as is and just change things in css, other expected
behaviours might break in that case. See this topic for more details:
https://chat.zulip.org/#narrow/channel/19-documentation/topic/new.20help.20center.3A.20regressions/near/2226084

All the changes were made by a one-off script which has not been
commited to the repo. The script wasn't perfect and could not decide
between blank lines that make a list loose vs blank lines necessary for
a sub-list or a code block inside a list item. A manual review of all
the changes was done before making this commit to ensure that no
unintended changes were made to the help center files.
2025-07-22 14:36:25 -07:00

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Marking messages as unread

Zulip lets you manually mark messages as unread. Specifically, Zulip offers a Mark as unread from here option, which lets you mark the selected message and all newer messages in your current view as unread.

There are many ways to use this feature, including:

  • When you don't have time to read a conversation carefully, or to follow up on action items, mark messages as unread to return to them later.
  • You can mark messages as unread when you subscribe to a channel. This makes it convenient to review all the recent conversations in that channel.
  • Mark the results of your search as unread to review them at leisure.

Mark as unread from selected message

{start_tabs}

{tab|desktop-web}

{!message-actions-menu.md!}

  1. Click Mark as unread from here.

!!! keyboard_tip ""

You can also mark messages as unread by selecting a message, and using the
<kbd>Shift</kbd> + <kbd>U</kbd> shortcut.

{tab|mobile}

{!message-long-press-menu.md!}

  1. Tap Mark as unread from here.

{end_tabs}

Mark all messages in a topic or channel as unread

{start_tabs}

{tab|via-left-sidebar}

  1. Hover over a topic or channel in the left sidebar.

  2. Click on the ellipsis ().

  3. Click Mark all messages as unread. This option will appear only if all messages in the topic or channel are currently marked as read.

!!! tip ""

You can also mark all messages in your current view as unread by
jumping to the top with the <kbd>Home</kbd> key, and marking as unread
[from the first message](#mark-as-unread-from-selected-message).

{tab|via-recent-conversations}

{!go-to-recent-conversations.md!}

  1. Hover over a topic.

  2. Click on the ellipsis () next to the unread messages counter. You may need to hover over the indicator icon for a followed () or muted () topic in order to see it.

  3. Click Mark all messages as unread. This option will appear only if all messages in the topic are currently marked as read.

{end_tabs}