# Kanboard Gantt Plugin: How to Highlight Today’s Date? **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions\ **Created:** [November 14, 2025, 12:22pm UTC](https://kanboard.discourse.group/t/kanboard-gantt-plugin-how-to-highlight-today-s-date/3566 "2025-11-14T12:22:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kunkun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a183cd/32.png) [@kunkun](https://kanboard.discourse.group/u/kunkun)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 12:22pm UTC](https://kanboard.discourse.group/t/kanboard-gantt-plugin-how-to-highlight-today-s-date/3566/1 "2025-11-14T12:22:33Z")
Hi everyone, I’m using the Gantt plugin from the Kanboard project and ran into a usability issue. The plugin displays my projects correctly, but I struggle to locate today’s date on the timeline. Each time, it takes me about a minute to orient myself because I have project spanning over months in the past and it open on the earliest date of all projects. Is there a way to highlight today’s date (jump to it maybe), or am I missing a configuration option? For those who use this plugin regularly, is this a known limitation or is there a better workflow? Thanks in advance for your insights. EDIT : using this plugin [GitHub - kanboard/plugin-gantt: [NOT MAINTAINED] Gantt charts for Kanboard](https://github.com/kanboard/plugin-gantt) ---
**Author:** ![kunkun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a183cd/32.png) [@kunkun](https://kanboard.discourse.group/u/kunkun)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 12:30pm UTC](https://kanboard.discourse.group/t/kanboard-gantt-plugin-how-to-highlight-today-s-date/3566/2 "2025-11-14T12:30:10Z")
I am just seeing those little yellow squares. They seem to end on today’s date. Nice but a highlight on the column would be more helpful imo + option to jump to the date. I guess that this is the answer though. I will keep the discussion open if someone has a better workflow or may propose a plugin for this plugin. ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/kanboard1/original/2X/c/c638e35c676a417938b9b68d3ba1ee98c6eb954c.png) ---
**Author:** ![alfredb](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kanboard.discourse.group/alfredb/32/1051_2.png) [@alfredb](https://kanboard.discourse.group/u/alfredb)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 1:55pm UTC](https://kanboard.discourse.group/t/kanboard-gantt-plugin-how-to-highlight-today-s-date/3566/3 "2025-11-14T13:55:12Z")
Well, this is already done. But unfortunately in such a bright color that it cannot be recognized. To adjust this, you have to edit the file _gantt.css_. ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/kanboard1/original/2X/8/83f4ee2cb487884d6c85d183958d6e637fae289a.png) Changing the color improves the visibility. (Example) ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/kanboard1/original/2X/d/d9bd3c226caecdee34ccbe21220a470bdedfaf1a.png) As you can see, I’ve also adjusted the coloring for the weekends. ---
**Author:** ![kunkun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a183cd/32.png) [@kunkun](https://kanboard.discourse.group/u/kunkun)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://kanboard.discourse.group/t/kanboard-gantt-plugin-how-to-highlight-today-s-date/3566/4 "2025-11-14T16:57:24Z")
Thank you for your answer, I think that I have a bug. What is supposed to be column is broken. When I changed the color, it changed to color of those blocks. ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/kanboard1/original/2X/9/9d4abf60ae15684e797833252b29524f50501606.png) ---
**Author:** ![alfredb](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kanboard.discourse.group/alfredb/32/1051_2.png) [@alfredb](https://kanboard.discourse.group/u/alfredb)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 5:00pm UTC](https://kanboard.discourse.group/t/kanboard-gantt-plugin-how-to-highlight-today-s-date/3566/5 "2025-11-14T17:00:37Z")
It really looks weird, but I have no idea why. ---
**Author:** ![kunkun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a183cd/32.png) [@kunkun](https://kanboard.discourse.group/u/kunkun)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 5:09pm UTC](https://kanboard.discourse.group/t/kanboard-gantt-plugin-how-to-highlight-today-s-date/3566/6 "2025-11-14T17:09:50Z")
It looks like there’s a general problem with ordering in the plugin, i see that I your screenshot, the week-end is gray, for me it is a checkerboard. I thought that it was by design. ---
**Author:** ![alfredb](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kanboard.discourse.group/alfredb/32/1051_2.png) [@alfredb](https://kanboard.discourse.group/u/alfredb)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 5:19pm UTC](https://kanboard.discourse.group/t/kanboard-gantt-plugin-how-to-highlight-today-s-date/3566/7 "2025-11-14T17:19:12Z")
> [@kunkun](#): > > I thought that it was by design. Nope, it isn’t. Mine looks correct. ---
**Author:** ![alfredb](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kanboard.discourse.group/alfredb/32/1051_2.png) [@alfredb](https://kanboard.discourse.group/u/alfredb)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 5:25pm UTC](https://kanboard.discourse.group/t/kanboard-gantt-plugin-how-to-highlight-today-s-date/3566/8 "2025-11-14T17:25:32Z")
Any script blocking in effect? ---
**Author:** ![kunkun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a183cd/32.png) [@kunkun](https://kanboard.discourse.group/u/kunkun)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 5:29pm UTC](https://kanboard.discourse.group/t/kanboard-gantt-plugin-how-to-highlight-today-s-date/3566/9 "2025-11-14T17:29:21Z")
Surely I am using Mozilla with some strong settings. But it does not seem to be the problem, in my admin account, everything is working fine. ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/kanboard1/original/2X/3/312f45cedd89bfe6730985898bf464f1546c5a04.png) ---
**Author:** ![alfredb](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kanboard.discourse.group/alfredb/32/1051_2.png) [@alfredb](https://kanboard.discourse.group/u/alfredb)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 5:34pm UTC](https://kanboard.discourse.group/t/kanboard-gantt-plugin-how-to-highlight-today-s-date/3566/10 "2025-11-14T17:34:18Z")
> [@kunkun](#): > > my admin account, everything is working fine. Which admin? Kanboard or system? You might tell me more about your Kanboard. ---
**Author:** ![kunkun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a183cd/32.png) [@kunkun](https://kanboard.discourse.group/u/kunkun)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 5:38pm UTC](https://kanboard.discourse.group/t/kanboard-gantt-plugin-how-to-highlight-today-s-date/3566/11 "2025-11-14T17:38:10Z")
I have a regular account (Manager) that I use and an admin account on Kanboard only for system configs. I notice that the Gantt view for “all projects” using the admin account is correct. The Gantt view per project is correct from the regular account and admin account. The Gantt view for “all projects” using the regular account has some rendering issues. The only difference I can pin is that I have a lot of projects in this one (around 30). Current setup : Kanboard v1.2.48 Plugins : ├── Bigboard ├── DashboardTaskSorting ├── Gantt ├── ICalConfig ├── MarkdownPlus ├── OAuth2 ├── Relationgraph └── SendEmailCreator ---
**Author:** ![alfredb](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kanboard.discourse.group/alfredb/32/1051_2.png) [@alfredb](https://kanboard.discourse.group/u/alfredb)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 5:41pm UTC](https://kanboard.discourse.group/t/kanboard-gantt-plugin-how-to-highlight-today-s-date/3566/12 "2025-11-14T17:41:38Z")
What if you remove BigBoard temporarily to narrow down the issue? ---
**Author:** ![kunkun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a183cd/32.png) [@kunkun](https://kanboard.discourse.group/u/kunkun)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 5:47pm UTC](https://kanboard.discourse.group/t/kanboard-gantt-plugin-how-to-highlight-today-s-date/3566/13 "2025-11-14T17:47:35Z")
I may have found the issue. It seems related to zooming : [Gantt Chart Display Zoom Issues - #7 by 3DTeam](https://kanboard.discourse.group/t/gantt-chart-display-zoom-issues/3484/7) When I set the browser zoom to 80% or 110% (not even 100%?), everything looks correct. ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/kanboard1/original/2X/2/29896b061b2236e303e64bb9c19ee29231cc90bf.png) ---
**Author:** ![kunkun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a183cd/32.png) [@kunkun](https://kanboard.discourse.group/u/kunkun)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 5:49pm UTC](https://kanboard.discourse.group/t/kanboard-gantt-plugin-how-to-highlight-today-s-date/3566/14 "2025-11-14T17:49:11Z")
Erratum : \*almost everything looks correct. This is the output for 110%… the magic value seems to be 80%. ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/kanboard1/original/2X/c/c731ecfa3bdfe64a01700feda92f10a14ada140a.png) ---
**Author:** ![alfredb](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kanboard.discourse.group/alfredb/32/1051_2.png) [@alfredb](https://kanboard.discourse.group/u/alfredb)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 5:51pm UTC](https://kanboard.discourse.group/t/kanboard-gantt-plugin-how-to-highlight-today-s-date/3566/15 "2025-11-14T17:51:48Z")
Ah, yes, I can confirm. ---
**Author:** ![kunkun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a183cd/32.png) [@kunkun](https://kanboard.discourse.group/u/kunkun)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 5:56pm UTC](https://kanboard.discourse.group/t/kanboard-gantt-plugin-how-to-highlight-today-s-date/3566/16 "2025-11-14T17:56:29Z")
Thank you for the support, I think that I will leave it like that for now. In the other thread, they seem to have found a solution, I reached out for help. One less mystery in the universe.