diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index bfd0b1c6..b7140b0c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -28,13 +28,15 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/) and this p
 -   `<ColorField />`
     -   input component for colors
     -   uses a subset from the configured color palette by default, but it also allows to enter custom colors
+-   `<MultiSuggestField />`
+    -   `MultiSuggestFieldSelectionProps` provides `newlyRemoved` for callbacks set when removing a selected item
+-   `<HtmlContentClock />`
+    -   inline `code` uses same gray background highlighting like code blocks
 -   CSS custom properties
     -   beside the color palette we now mirror the most important layout configuration variables as CSS custom properties
 -   new icons:
     -   `state-confirmed-all`
     -   `state-declined-all`
--   `<MultiSuggestField />`
-    -   `MultiSuggestFieldSelectionProps` provides `newlyRemoved` for callbacks set when removing a selected item
 
 ### Fixed
 
@@ -62,6 +64,8 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/) and this p
 -   `<MultiSuggestField />`
     -   `onSelection` now sets `newlySelected` only for add actions and no longer sets it to the last element
     -   border of the BlueprintJS `Tag` elements were fixed
+-   `<Modal />`
+    -   fix specificity for pointer-events rules on SVG
 -   `<Button />`
     -   badge is correctly displayed when `badge={0}`
 -   Focus outlines
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 5e21c3fb..f7031d54 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
     "name": "@eccenca/gui-elements",
     "description": "GUI elements based on other libraries, usable in React application, written in Typescript.",
-    "version": "25.0.0",
+    "version": "25.1.0",
     "license": "Apache-2.0",
     "homepage": "https://github.com/eccenca/gui-elements",
     "bugs": "https://github.com/eccenca/gui-elements/issues",
diff --git a/src/cmem/markdown/Markdown.stories.tsx b/src/cmem/markdown/Markdown.stories.tsx
index 2754e20c..ee7adef3 100644
--- a/src/cmem/markdown/Markdown.stories.tsx
+++ b/src/cmem/markdown/Markdown.stories.tsx
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ This is a paragraph.
     * another line
 3. third item
 
-This is a paragraph with a [text link](http://example.com/) and a footnote reference [^1].
+This is a paragraph with a [text link](http://example.com/), some \`inline code\`, and a footnote reference [^1].
 
 ## Headline level 2
 ### Headline level 3
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ This is a paragraph with a [text link](http://example.com/) and a footnote refer
 ##### Headline level 5
 ###### Headline level 6
 
-    This is a code block. 
+    This is a code block.
 
 \`\`\`
 another code block
diff --git a/src/components/Dialog/dialog.scss b/src/components/Dialog/dialog.scss
index 259cd8d2..81a86ef9 100644
--- a/src/components/Dialog/dialog.scss
+++ b/src/components/Dialog/dialog.scss
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ $eccgui-color-modal-backdrop: eccgui-color-rgba(
     max-width: calc(100vw - 4rem);
     max-height: calc(100vh - 4rem);
     margin: 2rem;
-    pointer-events: all;
+    pointer-events: auto;
     user-select: text;
 
     & > * {
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ $eccgui-color-modal-backdrop: eccgui-color-rgba(
         max-width: 100%;
     }
 
-    * {
+    *:has(> svg) {
         pointer-events: all;
     }
 
diff --git a/src/components/Typography/typography.scss b/src/components/Typography/typography.scss
index d264df1c..64cfaf62 100644
--- a/src/components/Typography/typography.scss
+++ b/src/components/Typography/typography.scss
@@ -13,20 +13,26 @@ html {
 
 body {
     font-family: $eccgui-font-family-default;
-    font-weight: $eccgui-font-weight-regular;
-    text-rendering: optimizelegibility;
-    -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
-    -moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
+
     // User-facing text may contain Unicode symbols (e.g. "★") that fall outside the primary font stack.
     // Browsers pick different system fallback fonts for such characters, causing glyphs to render at
     // different optical sizes (smaller in Firefox). font-size-adjust normalises the fallback font size
     // by matching the primary font's x-height, reducing the visual size discrepancy across browsers.
     font-size-adjust: from-font;
+    font-weight: $eccgui-font-weight-regular;
+    text-rendering: optimizelegibility;
+    -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
+    -moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
 }
 
 code {
     font-family: $eccgui-font-family-monospace;
     font-size: 0.9em;
+
+    .#{$eccgui}-typography__contentblock &,
+    &.#{$eccgui}-typography__text {
+        background-color: $eccgui-color-workspace-background;
+    }
 }
 
 strong {