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A comment is a remark, question, or any other additional information you wish to add to a page or blog post. Comments are a means by which a people can interact with each other on the site.
You can add a comment to any page or blog post, provided that you have the 'Add Comments' permission in the space. You can also show that you agree with or enjoyed someone else's comment, by liking it.
Comments are displayed at the bottom of the page, below the page content. Comments in Confluence are displayed in one of two views, configured globally by a site administrator:
- Threaded – This view shows the comments in a hierarchy of responses. Each subsequent reply to a comment is indented to indicate the relationships between the comments.
- Flat – This view displays all the comments in a single list and does not indicate the relationships between comments.
Adding a comment
You can add a new comment, on pages and blog posts in Confluence. If the Confluence site displays comments are in threaded view, you can respond to previous comments too.
To add a comment, you need the 'Add Comments' permission which is assigned by a space administrator. See Space permissions or contact a space administrator for more information.
To add a new comment:
- Choose Add > Comment from the top of the page, or click in the box next to your profile picture below the last comment.
- Type in your comment.
- Click Preview to see how your comment will appear.
- By default, Watch this page is ticked.This means that you will start receiving notifications about this page. Remove the tick if you do not want to watch the page.
- Click Save.
To respond to a comment:
- Click Reply located below the text of a comment.
- Type in your response.
- Click Save.
Editing a comment
To add a comment, you need the 'Add Comments' permission which is assigned by a space administrator. See Space permissions or contact a space administrator for more information. Space administrators can edit all comments within their space. The date on a comment always indicates the time the comment was last edited.
To edit a comment:
- Go to the comment and click Edit.
- Make changes to the comment just as if you were adding a comment.
- Click Save when you are finished.
Deleting a comment
To delete a comment from a page, you need the 'Remove Comments' permission which is assigned by a space administrator. See Space permissions or contact a space administrator for more information.
- It is not possible to delete all comments for a page simultaneously.
- Note: Deleted comments cannot be restored.
To delete a comment:
- Go to the page that contains the comment.
- Click Remove at the bottom of the comments box. This is only displayed if you have permission to remove comments for this page.
Notes
- You can choose Tools > Watch to receive an email notification whenever anyone edits the page or adds a comment to the page.
- Your profile picture will appear next to each comment that you have added. (This is true if your space uses the Confluence Default theme.)
- On blog posts only, an 'Author' lozenge will appear on any comments made by the original author of the post.
- Comments are not auto-saved. See feature request: - CONF-12978Getting issue details... STATUS