Why do Tasks have a different presentation in Dataview queries?

[mgussekloo]

Hi,

I'm wondering why Tasks in Dataview query results look different from "normal" tasks. In my opinion they look worse, with the checkboxes misaligned and a strikethrough that makes the items hard to read. Am I doing something wrong? Is this a known issue, that will be fixed in the future? Any help is appreciated.

I tried the Minimal theme and Things theme, without any custom styling.
Please see attached image: first one is a Dataview, bottom one is "regular" Obsidian task list.

[holroy]

This image is from the Sandbox vault with the default theme, and a recent download of Dataview (I've got the query on bottom, and the static task definition on top). There is little to no shift in the horizontal placement of items, and the CSS used to present them is as close as it can be when accounting for how different these have been rendered.

In other words, I can't really see any issue here, and you should be able to style any task lists similar through the theme of your choice. I do see that with Minimal theme they're still identical.

When using Things I see there is a difference in live preview where Things don't style the dataview queried version the same as it does in reading mode and for the task definitions. So the styling that theme is using, doesn't target the task within a query, so it defaults to the default theme.