How do you know which editor a page uses?
Asked by Francesco Cipollone:

How do you know which editor a page uses, without editing a page? {#toc-hId--1329595695}
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We have hundreds of pages, in either the Legacy or the new Editor, and going to "Edit" is very time-consuming. Visually identifying the editor used would greatly speed up our upgrades to the New Editor.  

Do you have any clues - however small - visible on the page?  
Thank you


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Francesco,

Thank you for raising this, I'm sure a lot of other users will have the same question!

Besides [the editor differences](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/learn-about-confluence-cloud-editing-improvements/) that Matt mentioned, there are a few subtle differences when viewing the page.

For example, when a page is using the new editor, the author information will be centered below the page breadcrumbs:

![old.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/100320i8A77F827780A3246/image-dimensions/471x208?v=v2 "old.png")![new.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/100319i2D6D0B18A911BD04/image-dimensions/510x155?v=v2 "new.png")

I hope this helps you! Let me know if you still have any doubts about which editor you're using.

Take care,

Shannon

comments: author: Francesco Cipollone
body: Hello Shannon, -  

I'm afraid that is not the case for me.  
The Author Information is on the Left in both cases.  

Once again, I'm looking to save time in opening and closing the editor on hundreds of pages.  
If there is any other hind you can share, that would help us out.

Thank you,

Francesco


author: Shannon S
body: Francesco,

That's odd; could you show me a screenshot of the page that's on the new editor where the author information is on the left? I've not yet seen a new editor page that didn't have the information centered. Please also include a picture of the page in edit mode, just to confirm it is indeed on the new editor.

Otherwise, you would be able to tell if a page is on the new editor, depending on what macros are being used on the page. For example, there are new colors in the status and table macros. In fact, tables were completely revamped in the new editor, so you would see a difference in formatting there overall.

Shannon


author: Francesco Cipollone
body: Shannon, -

*"on the new editor \[\] the author information is on the left
I've not yet seen a new editor page that didn't have the information centered."*

Left or Centered Author information depends on:  
"Make page fixed width" / "Make page full-width" (represented by the double arrows in Editor mode.

So this information cannot be used to tell the difference between the New and Old editors, without going into Editor mode.

Do you have any other clues to give, please?

Thank you,

Francesco


author: Shannon S
body: Hi Francesco,

I'm experiencing the same behavior now with the author information, so it appears that this has been corrected and will now be in-line with the content in the New Editor.

Some macros will display differently depending on if the page is on the Legacy or newer editor. For example, Status macros and Tables have additional colors.

However, it's possible that your page doesn't contain any macros that appear differently across the editors. In this case, it will be very difficult for you to determine by viewing the page alone which editor is using. You will need to edit the page to view the editor the page is using.

A workaround for that would be to use REST-API to determine this:

* [Detect if page been created by new or old editor through the REST API](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/detect-if-page-been-created-by-new-or-old-editor-through-the-rest-api/33873)

I hope that helps, but do let me know if you have any trouble.

Take care,

Shannon


author: Francesco Cipollone
body: Hello Shannon, -

<br />

It looks like I do not have permission to use the REST API

Thank you for trying  

Francesco


author: Shannon S
body: Hello [@Francesco Cipollone](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3662591),

As long as you have an account on the Cloud site, you should be able to [generate an API token](https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/api-tokens-938839638.html) and make these requests.

Some API requests are specific to site admins, and you won't be able to access or modify pages and spaces you don't have permission to see, but there shouldn't be anything preventing your access to the Cloud Confluence REST-API in general.

Is there a particular issue you were having when attempting to use REST-API?

Take care,

Shannon


author: Matt Reiner [K15t]
body: They offer some hints here: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/I-have-the-new-editor-is-it-possible-to-have-the-legacy-editor/qaq-p/1372761>  

It looks like it really comes down to what's in the toolbar.

comments: author: Francesco Cipollone
body: The toolbar is useful only if you are already in edit mode.  
But the question is about having an indication of which editor a page uses, **without** editing a page.

I have put 2 similar pages side-by-side, one created with the New editor and the other created with the Legacy editor, and I have not seen any difference (without clicking on Edit!)

But perhaps there is a tell-tale hint that differentiates them.  
Can you help?

Thank you


author: repi
body: .


author: repi
comments: author: Francesco Cipollone
body: Hello Repi, -  
I don't know to do that. Specifically, I don't know how to check if "it has landed over the entry page".Please tell me how  
Thank you, Francesco


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