Textualize/textual v5.0.0

The Tabled release.

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This is quite a large release! Fueled in part by my work on Toad

Markdown rendering has been improved, with full text selection, prettier code blocks and tables. Plus streaming support.

Plenty of other fixes and additions. Thats to everyone who contributed code and issues!

There are two breaking changes (see below). These are unlikely to affect anyone, but Semver requires bumping the major version number.

[5.0.0] - 2025-07-25

Added

• Added get_minimal_width to Visual protocol #5962
• Added expand and shrink attributes to GridLayout #5962
• Added Markdown.get_stream #5966
• Added textual.highlight module for syntax highlighting #5966
• Added MessagePump.wait_for_refresh method #5966
• Added Widget.container_scroll_offset e84600c
• Added Markdown.source attribute to MarkdownBlocks e84600c
• Added extension mechanism to Markdown e84600c
• Added index to ListView.Selected event #5973
• Added layout switch to Static.update #5973

Fixed

• Fixed TextArea issue with the css theme, where the background color was stuck from the previous theme #5964

Changed

• Improved rendering of Markdown tables (replace Rich table with grid) which allows text selection #5962
• Change look of command palette, to drop accented borders #5966
• Some style tweaks to Markdown e84600c
• Content markup can now accept component classes when preceded by a dot, e.g. "Hello [.my_custo_style]World[/]!" #5981
• Breaking change: Visual.render_strips has a new signature. If you aren't explicitly building Visuals then this won't effect you. #5981
• Breaking change: The component classes on Markdown have been moved to MarkdownBlock. This won't affect you unless you have customize the Markdown CSS #5981
• The textual-speedups library will now be imported automatically if it is installed. Set TEXTUAL_SPEEDUPS=0 to disable.