5 posts tagged with "formatting"

Long pages die from scroll fatigue. Onboarding checklists, troubleshooting trees, API reference details, legal disclaimers — content that only some readers need some of the time is the canonical use case for collapsible sections. Confluence ships a native expand macro for exactly this, and for many pages it's enough.

This guide covers how the native expand works, where teams typically outgrow it, and what a styled accordion macro adds — so you can pick per page, not per vendor.

Tabs are the layout workhorse of product pages, API references, and comparison docs: they let one page hold three versions of the truth (per environment, per plan, per language) without tripling the scroll length. Confluence's answer to tabs has changed over the years, so this page sorts out what exists today and which to use when.

Bold text is one of the most common formatting actions in Confluence — for headings, callouts, and emphasis inside paragraphs. There are two ways to do it: the toolbar button / keyboard shortcut in the standard editor, and Markdown syntax inside Enhanced Markdown for Confluence. This guide covers both, plus the common "why isn't it working" cases.

A block quote sets a passage apart from the surrounding text — usually indented with a left border — to indicate that the words are quoted from another source. Confluence does not have a dedicated "quote block" button, but there are three reliable ways to create one. This guide walks through each and helps you pick the right one.

Confluence has a visual table editor, but it's slow for creating structured tables — you need to click to add rows and columns one at a time. If you write documentation in Markdown, you can create tables much faster with Markdown syntax.

This guide shows how to create, format, and edit tables in Confluence using Markdown.