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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. 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:
On this page:
Related pages:
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:
You can also highlight any text on a page, and choose the Quote in Comment button that appears near your selection. This will add the highlighted text into the comment field, apply the Quote style, and leave the cursor in the comment field ready to type a comment. If you do not see a popup when you highlight text, check that Text Select is enabled in your profile settings.
To respond to a comment:
To reply to comments, your Confluence site must display comments in threaded view.
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:
To delete a comment from a page, you need the 'Remove Comments' permission. See Space permissions. Deleted comments cannot be restored.
To delete a comment:
If you do not have 'Remove Comments' permission, you are able to delete your own comments, but only if there are no replies to the comment.
You can link directly to a comment on a page. See Working with Links for more information on linking to comments.
To prevent all users from adding comments in a space, remove the 'Add Comments' permission from the 'confluence-users' or '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.