Typing wiki markup

Typed text and wiki markup into the Wiki Markup Editor pane.

Start typing wiki markup – try it and see what happens!

Pasting wiki markup

Pasted wiki markup into the Wiki Markup Editor pane.

Bold text

Typed an asterisk '*', your text, then another asterisk in wiki markup. Example:

*Surf's Up*

Heading levels

Typed the heading level in wiki markup. Example:

h2. Midnight at the Lost and Found

Underlining, italics, superscript, subscript

Typed the wiki markup characters before and after your text.

Type the wiki markup just as you did before. Autoformatting will convert it as you type.

Left, centre and right alignment

Not available in previous versions of Confluence.

Indentation

Not available in previous versions of Confluence.

Quotation

Typed the {quote} macro in wiki markup. Example:

{quote}Life is a lemon.{quote}

Or type bq. in the editor

Colour

Typed the {color} macro in wiki markup. Example:

{color:green}Bat out of Hell.{color}

Adding a macro to your page.

Typed curly brackets, the macro name and parameters. Example:

Read 'em and weep: {blog-posts}

Smiley

Typed a colon and a round bracket. Example:

:)

Tick or check mark

Typed a forward slash in round brackets. Example:

(/)

Linking to a Confluence page

Typed the text and pasted the page name inside square brackets. Example:

[Modern Girl|Modern Girl song lyrics]

Linking text to a web page

Typed the text and pasted the link inside square brackets. Example:

[Modern Girl|http://www.example.com/song]

Linking to a page that does not yet exist

Typed the name of the non-existent page inside square brackets. Example:

[Future of the Modern Girl]

Linking to an attachment

Typed '^' and the attachment name inside square brackets. Examples:

[^attachment name]
[Page Name#^attachment name]

Adding bullets

Typed an asterisk '*' in wiki markup. Example:

My list:
* Bad Attitude

Adding numbered items

Typed a hash '#' in wiki markup. Example:

My list:
# A Time for Heroes

Adding line breaks in a numbered/bulleted list

Started a new line. Typed a double slash for an empty line. Example:

//

Press Shift+Enter.

Adding a table

Typed pipe characters '|' in wiki markup. Example:

||  || Title || Owned ||
| 1  | 	45 seconds of ecstasy | Y |
| 2  | 	Amnesty Is Granted |   |

Editing a table

Edited the text and shuffled the pipe characters around.

Learn the keyboard shortcuts for table editing. Click the help icon on the editor toolbar to see a list of shortcut keys.

Displayed an image attached to the page

Typed/pasted the image name inside exclamation marks '!'. Example:

!NoMatterWhat.png!

Displaying an image attached to another page

Typed/pasted the page name, a '^' and the image name inside exclamation marks. Example – to display an image that is attached to the page titled 'Home By Now':

!Home By Now^NoMatterWhat.png!

_Exactly the same as when the image is attached to the same page, or use the new "Search" tab in "Insert" > "Image"

Embedding a video, movie or audio file into a page

Used the wiki markup image format. Example:

!HotPatootie.mov|height=800,width=600,id=media!

Use the Multimedia macro.