Wiki Markup is broken

[Dan Christovic]

Hey,

Just started using Confluence and using asterisks around some text makes it italic, and the header markup features do absolutely nothing if using.

h1. Example

or *bold*

_italics_, for example, does work. 

-Lists also seem to work.

Am I missing something? Driving me mad!

Cheers,

Dan

[Ste Wright · Accepted solution]

Hi @Dan Christovic

You're likely using the new editor, which has a new set of keyboard shortcuts.

To view these, in the edit page there is a "?" button in the lower-left corner. Press this and select "Editing Keyboard Shortcuts"

This will show you the new options, such as **Bold** for bold.

You can also open the keyboard shortcuts using Cmnd + / on a Mac - your keyboard shortcuts will show the option based on your OS type - so will have a different option for Windows.

It will look like this:

Ste

[Dan Christovic]

Oh great! More github-style, that's fantastic. Is the documentation going to be updated at some point?

[Ste Wright]

I would say so - if you look at this page for example, there's already details around auto-complete in the new editor :)

There are a lot of articles, blogs, etc which cover these topics - you can check at the bottom of a page when it was last modified to see how up to date it is :). For example the page I linked above was last updated on 03/01/2020.

Ste

[Dan Christovic]

Ah, I see. 

That's cool, didn't find it since I was searching for 'markdown confluence' into Google. Doesn't bring up that page that you linked.

That's great stuff, though, thanks for the incredibly quick response times here!

[Sebastian De Rossi]

@Ste Wright 

Is it possible to create a table with just mark up?

I can't get this to work.

|| x || y ||
| a | b |  

Can't seem to find the "markup" option anywhere.

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

Thanks in advance!

[Ste Wright]

Hi @Sebastian De Rossi 

Not that I've seen in Confluence; what's the need to use mark-up as opposed to just adding a table to the page?

Ste

[Sebastian De Rossi]

Hi @Ste Wright 
The reason is we have a application that exports MD data. It would be awesome to just copy and paste that MD table on the Confluence page. It's a big data set, it would be quicker just to replace the table and not update individual cells with new information.

[Ste Wright]

Hi @Sebastian De Rossi 

I don't believe this is possible in the new editor; see this comment on another similar question.

There is a suggestion to add full markdown support to the new editor, vote/follow CONFCLOUD-68137 

Ste