Inserting Emoticons and Icons

Adding Emoticons

There are two ways to add an emoticon, or smiley, to your Confluence page.

By choosing an emoticon from those available:

1. Choose Insert > Emoticon when editing, to display the available emoticons.
2. Click on an emoticon to insert it.

By typing a character combination:
You can insert emoticons by typing commonly-used character combinations. For example, the following code appears as an emoticon when the page is rendered.

;)

This example creates this emoticon: .

The emoticons (and other icons) available in Confluence, and the character combinations that create them, are shown in this table:

Preventing Emoticons from Appearing

To prevent Confluence from turning parts of text into emoticons, 'escape' the character sequence by inserting a '\' character.

For example, this character sequence contains an emoticon:

(-example_here;)

This example appears as: (-example_here.

To 'escape' the emoticon sequence, insert a slash as in the following example:

(-example_here\;)

The characters will then appear exactly as typed.

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