What happened to Placeholder Text?
Asked by Jana Rasmussen:

Recently, as I've been building templates and such, I have made use of placeholder text by using /placeholder.

Today, I went to create some information using this and cannot find it nor anything similar. See Video.

![Confluence Placeholder Small.gif](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/145735i50182D02B41480B3/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Confluence Placeholder Small.gif")

**Was it removed? If yes, is there a workaround? If it wasn't removed, why don't I have access to it anymore?**

There doesn't seem to be a "Instructional Text" option for me in the Cloud version which I have seen referenced in a few Q\&A spots. Or if it's there, I'm not seeing it and not sure why. How do I insert this instructional text?


Answers:
author: Jana Rasmussen
body: An answer here: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Does-Confluence-still-have-the-placeholder-text-macro/qaq-p/1458921#U1730617>

helped illuminate why the Placeholder text was not appearing for me. It will only appear if I am building a template. In the example above, I was not building a template (though I transferred it to a template later). I have gone back into the template version of the example I provided in the video above and Placeholder Text does work in a Template. But that is the only place the Placeholder macro will work.


author: Sezin
body: It doesn't work on Template either.

I searched for both **Placeholder text** and **Instructional text**from the + -\> Other macros. But none of them is there.

Update Edit: I found **Instructional text** , it's not under **+**sign, on the left of that sign there is a page-like icon. You can find it under that.

comments: author: Uma Krishnamurthy
body: Did the instructional text let you use space between two words? For some weird reason, I it is not recognizing the space bar

Thanks!


author: mbeita
body: I also encounter the same issue described here. I created a template and tried to look for the macro using the / command or the + menu but nothing shows up even if I am in a template.

Is there a way to get this feature back?


author: Niranjan
body: Hi [@Jana Rasmussen](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4113304) ,

If your template editor is using the new Confluence editor, then you'll find the **Placeholder text** macro under the **+** sign menu.

Some templates might still be using the legacy editor. For these, you will instead find a menu item with a page icon, and it's called **Instructional text** instead.

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Does-Confluence-still-have-the-placeholder-text-macro/qaq-p/1458921>

comments: author: Jana Rasmussen
body: It isn't there any more. I USED to get to it (or by typing the slash / and then "place" and it would pop up) the way you described, but when I try that now, it doesn't work. See screen recording to see what I mean.![Confluence Placeholder Small.gif](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/145734i5EEAA7EDACF429C5/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Confluence Placeholder Small.gif")


author: Arthur Mack
body: [@Jana Rasmussen](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4113304) It only works if you are editing a TEMPLATE and not a page.

Art


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