to bullets and back to normal paragraph), rather than replacing formatting directives, it keeps adding them.in ways that confuses itself. Again - not unique problems to Confluence.) I think part of the problem is that if you make the mistake of changing the formatting of a section (e.g. Or formatting one section will format whole chunks or even the entire document, the same way. in the case of Confluence, at some point you can't position the cursor with the keyboard, without skipping over entire sections. But once you get to a certain level of formatting complexity, Confluence and every other web-based WYSIWYG editor starts soiling the bed.
Personally I've always been frustrated with the WYSIWYG editor.īut then again, I've yet to see any product or plugin for any platform, successfully crack the web-based WYSIWYG editor nut. We've been long-time users of Confluence. You can see how feature requests are considered in our New Features Policy.
You also have the option of adding a Marketplace app - Markdown Macro for Confluence is a free one, but you can browse apps specific to Confluence Server and Data Center in addition.Īs for native support in self-hosted Confluence, we're collecting feedback at our feature requests for:Īlong with a bug that has since been resolved as of Confluence 6.14 and up: With self-hosted Confluence, this can be done OOTB with the Markup macro (select Insert > Markdown from the drop-down). We don't yet offer a plain text markdown editor so you can edit in markdown, but we're tracking interest on our feature request, Edit in Markdown with the new editor for Confluence Cloud. You can see more on supported markdown in Confluence's keyboard shortcuts. Our Confluence Cloud editor (sites hosted on ) supports markdown on the fly, so text with markdown formatting that is pasted directly into the editor will be converted.
I'm adding some clarification on what's possible OOTB today with Confluence. Hi there, appreciate everyone's input on this.