Hi Bastien,

> The indentation of the exported HTML looks correct to me:
> "some text" is right below "*** Third level"

> The HTML color of the leading stars is taken from the org-hide face.
> When your background is black, the org-hide face is black, hence the
> color you see in the HTML output.

Let me reformulate.

I'm looking for a way to tell the HTML exporter how to format Org syntax. I
was expecting it to format it according to my own preferences. For example,
I usually set org-indent-mode to t since it is cleaner. But this is not
taken into account by the HTML exporter: it produces a 'standard' Org
syntax, the one you get by default without any configuration, with visible
leading stars and no indentation. Is it possible to change that?

Two other minor observations.

1. I changed the org-hide face to other colors, like red (just for trying,
since I didn't know about that possibility). As soon as I export an Org
buffer to HTML, the org-hide face comes back to its initial value: the
leading stars are back from red to invisible. This might be anormal.

2. About the black leading stars in my previous posts, I found the problem:
when org-indent-mode is activated by setting org-startup-indented to t, it
produces black leading stars in my HTML output. This doesn't happen when it
is activated using the org-indent-mode function or when '#+STARTUP: indent'
is in the file. This might be a bug too.

Thanks for your time,

FC