A comment is a remark, question, or any other additional information you wish to add to a page or blog post. People can use comments to interact with each other on your Confluence 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. They appear in one of two views, configured globally by a site administrator:

  • Threaded – This view shows the comments in a hierarchy (tree) of responses. The replies are 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.

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Adding a comment

You can add a comment on pages and blog posts in Confluence.

To add a comment, you need the 'Add Comments' permission. See Space permissions.

To add a new comment:

  1. Position your cursor in the comment box, next to your profile picture at the bottom of the page.
  2. Type in your comment.
  3. Choose Preview to see how your comment will appear.
  4. 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.
  5. Choose Save.

If the Confluence site displays comments in the threaded view, you can respond to previous comments.

To respond to a comment:

  1. Choose Reply located below the text of a comment.
  2. Type in your response.
  3. Choose Save.

Editing a comment

To edit a comment, you need the 'Add Comments' permission. See Space permissions. 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:

  1. Go to the comment and choose Edit.
  2. Make changes to the comment just as if you were adding a comment.
  3. Choose Save.

Deleting a comment

To delete a comment from a page, you need the  'Remove Comments' permission. See Space permissions. 

Note: Deleted comments cannot be restored.

To delete a comment:

  1. Go to the page that contains the comment.
  2. Choose Delete at the bottom of the comment box.

Disabling comments

To prevent all users from adding comments in a space, remove the 'Add Comments' permission from the 'confluence-users' group, anonymous users and all other users and groups. See Space permissions. The option to add comments will no longer appear on pages or blog posts. You need to be a space administrator to change the space permissions.

There is no permission that controls comments across the entire site.

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-12978 - Getting issue details... STATUS
  • It is not possible to delete all comments for a page simultaneously.

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