Comments are a great way to bring others into the conversation about a page or blog post. They allow you to remark on content, add important information, or ask questions, and generally drive collaboration and teamwork. You can add a comment at the bottom of any page or blog post, or add an inline comment to specific text on the page. 

Page comments are displayed at the bottom of the page, below the page content, and inline comments are displayed to the right of the page adjacent to the highlighted text.

Add a page or blog post comment

  1. Type your comment in the comment field at the bottom of the page
  2. Optionally, choose Preview to see how your comment will appear
  3. By default, Watch this page is ticked (This means you'll start receiving notifications about the page. Uncheck it if you don't want to watch the page.)
  4. Choose Save

Other users can reply and/or like your comment, and you or a space administrator can edit your comment(s).

Add an inline comment

On this page:

Related pages:

  1. Highlight the text you want to comment on
  2. Choose the add commentbutton that appears above the highlighted text
  3. Type your comment and choose Save

The selected text will appear with a yellow highlight indicating an inline comment; choose any highlighted text on the page to display the related comment(s).

Inline comments might look simple, but they support rich text – like bold, underline, and italics – links, and @mentions. Just like page and blog post comments, others can reply to, or like, your inline comments, and you'll be notified when they do.

You can also resolve inline comments once the conversation's finished, and reopen them at any time if they're needed.

(info) If you don't see a popup when you highlight text, check that  Text Select  is enabled in your profile settings.

View and reopen resolved comments

If you want to view and/or reopen resolved comments on a page or blog post, choose  > Resolved comments, then choose Reopen.

Link to a comment

You can link directly to a comment on a page.  See Working with Links for more information. 

Comment permissions

  • Add a comment – You need the 'Add Comments' permission in the space.
  • Edit a comment – You need the 'Add Comments' permission. Space administrators can edit all comments within their space. The date on a comment always indicates the time the comment was last edited.
  • Delete a comment – You need the  'Remove Comments' permission.  Deleted comments cannot be restored. If you don't have the 'Remove Comments' permission, you can delete your own comments, but only if there are no replies to your comment.
  • Disable comments – If you don't want comments in a particular space, remove the 'Add Comments' permission from the 'confluence-users' or 'users' group, anonymous users and all other users and groups. The option to add comments will no longer appear on pages or blog posts in that space.

See Space permissions for more information. There is no permission that controls comments across the entire site.

Notes

  • Choose Watch at the top-right of the page to receive an email notification whenever anyone edits or adds a comment to the page.
  • On blog posts only, an 'Author' lozenge will appear on any comments made by the original author of the post.
  • It's not possible to delete all comments on a page simultaneously, or change the order of comments.
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1 Comment

  1. BrianB

    I believe it may be useful to add that at least one highlighted character needs to be in plain text for Inline Comments to work properly.