Stream: JIRA/Confluence
Topic: Confluence editing
Grahame Grieve (Oct 21 2021 at 05:48):
I want to type the text {type} into confluence, but it insists on doing something fancy with it. I don't want it to, I want exactly the text {type} - how can I do that?
Lynn Laakso (Oct 21 2021 at 12:40):
are you talking about setting a font style, like in the dropdown under "Paragraph" there's an option for "preformatted" that allows for a monospace typeface?
Lloyd McKenzie (Oct 21 2021 at 13:31):
When I need to type "[foo]", what I find works is typing it (which creates a link 'foo') and then hitting Ctrl-Z twice (the first deletes the word, the second returns my "[foo]" with no link.
Melva Peters (Oct 21 2021 at 13:48):
The use of { } in Confluence is a short cut to bring up the Macro selection. I'm not sure if there is a way to use the curly brackets in Confluence without it doing that. @Joshua Procious
Joshua Procious (Oct 21 2021 at 13:53):
I would suggest using the "Code Block" macro or the "No Format" macro. You can then imbed the text in there without any fancy stuff happening against it. Ironically { is the shortcut to add in a macro...
Joshua Procious (Oct 21 2021 at 13:53):
Corey Spears (Oct 21 2021 at 16:49):
A couple of things you could also do.
- Paste "{}" from you clipboard then edit in between the curly braces.
- Type "{{your text here}", then go back and delete one fo the two "{"
Grahame Grieve (Oct 21 2021 at 18:37):
[] is easier to edit than {}
Grahame Grieve (Oct 21 2021 at 18:37):
I'll try Corey's methods next time. Joshua's approach works but sometimes you just don't want a code block
Richard Townley-O'Neill (Oct 22 2021 at 04:41):
As long as there is a character before the first { it will not start the macro. This works
p{some text}
then delete the "p" leaving
{some text}
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