Wiki Markup is broken
Asked by Dan Christovic:

Hey,

Just started using Confluence and using asterisks around some text makes it italic, and the header markup features do absolutely nothing if using.

h1. Example

or \*bold\*

_italics_, for example, does work.

-Lists also seem to work.

Am I missing something? Driving me mad!

Cheers,

Dan


Answers:
author: Ste Wright
body: Hi [@Dan Christovic](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3723774)

You're likely using the new editor, which has a new set of keyboard shortcuts.

To view these, in the edit page there is a "?" button in the lower-left corner. Press this and select "Editing Keyboard Shortcuts"

This will show you the new options, such as \*\*Bold\*\* for bold.

You can also open the keyboard shortcuts using Cmnd + / on a Mac - your keyboard shortcuts will show the option based on your OS type - so will have a different option for Windows.

It will look like this:

![New Keyboard Shortcuts - Confluence.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/80327iA48509298FB9B832/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "New Keyboard Shortcuts - Confluence.png")

Ste

comments: author: Dan Christovic
body: Oh great! More github-style, that's fantastic. Is the documentation going to be updated at some point?


author: Ste Wright
body: I would say so - if you look at [this page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/keyboard-shortcuts-and-autocomplete-724764956.html) for example, there's already details around auto-complete in the new editor :)

There are a lot of articles, blogs, etc which cover these topics - you can check at the bottom of a page when it was last modified to see how up to date it is :). For example the page I linked above was last updated on 03/01/2020.

Ste


author: Dan Christovic
body: Ah, I see.

That's cool, didn't find it since I was searching for 'markdown confluence' into Google. Doesn't bring up that page that you linked.

That's great stuff, though, thanks for the incredibly quick response times here!


author: Sebastian De Rossi
body: [@Ste Wright](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1166470)

Is it possible to create a table with just mark up?

I can't get this to work.  

```
|| x || y ||| a | b | ?
```

Can't seem to find the "markup" option anywhere.

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

Thanks in advance!

comments: author: Ste Wright
body: Hi [@Sebastian De Rossi](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4119153)

Not that I've seen in Confluence; what's the need to use mark-up as opposed to just adding a table to the page?

Ste


author: Sebastian De Rossi
body: Hi [@Ste Wright](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1166470)   
The reason is we have a application that exports MD data. It would be awesome to just copy and paste that MD table on the Confluence page. It's a big data set, it would be quicker just to replace the table and not update individual cells with new information.


author: Ste Wright
body: Hi [@Sebastian De Rossi](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4119153)

I don't believe this is possible in the new editor; see [this comment](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-can-I-insert-markup-in-Confluence/qaq-p/1029493#M184949) on another similar question.

There is a suggestion to add full markdown support to the new editor, vote/follow [CONFCLOUD-68137](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-68137)

Ste


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