Stop links from being created as bubbles in the new editor
Asked by Rory Apperson:

I don't know what else to call that, but when I create links in the new editor, often they appears in rectangular boxes (bubbles) with a little blue icon on the left, as shown below:

![2020-01-21_08-23-05.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/79799iDC71066B09E471A5/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2020-01-21_08-23-05.png")

Then when I'm using the "Blog Posts" macro, they don't appear as bubbles but the full URLs, and I can't tell what the link goes to:

![2020-01-21_08-22-50.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/79800i819436216F6E865A/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2020-01-21_08-22-50.png")

I want them to be the link text which is inside the bubbles. How do I disable the bubble behavior?


Answers:
author: Tom Whitmore
body: Bubble Links are a problem for me as well. They just seem a pointless anti-feature. They decrease readability, don't get rendered properly (many seconds FOUC) and make the whole experience worse.

* I have my own Wiki space. Where can I turn this off for the entire space?
* Alternately, where can I turn the new editor off for the entire space?

I'm absolutely disappointed with Confluence Cloud, compared with on-prem Confluence 2 or 3 years ago. Atlassian had a pretty good product but now presumably under the influence of "Product Managers" it's just being pointlessly degraded.

comments: author: HollyV
body: Product Manager, here. Can attest - this is a terrible, no-good, junk feature. Come on Atlassian - do better.


author: Sharon Helms
body: Hi [@Rory Apperson](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1114571) ,

Unfortunately, the behavior you're seeing is a default when you add a link URL in either the new editor in Confluence -- and also in Jira!

[@Mike Bowen](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1798821) mentions one workaround (type the text first, then use CTRL+K to add the URL to the text.

Another workaround -- which is unfortunately not documented anywhere!-- After you paste in a link URL, right after you see the autoformat behavior, use **CTRL+Z to undo the autoformat**. Then you can click on the URL text, and you will have the option to type in the link text of your choosing.

\*\* this is a particularly important workaround for anyone who is linking to files on shared Google drives -- which are incompatible with the autoformat behavior, and throw this terrible error. Atlassian knows of the issue, but is not currently supporting shared (team) Google drives:

![Screen Shot 2020-01-22 at 9.22.02 AM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/80025iCB0A34C08DFBF5F7/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2020-01-22 at 9.22.02 AM.png")

Hope this helps,

Sharon

comments: author: Rory Apperson
body: Well this is disappointing. I'm not sure anyone wants bubble links, and as I showed in the post they don't appear in the blog posts macro -- the full URL does, which is not helpful. Furthermore, having to type the text you want instead of the bubble every time is annoying.


author: Mike Bowen
body: Hi [@Rory Apperson](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1114571)

Interesting question and I was wondering why I had a page where some links were bubble links and others were not. So I did a little investigation and I know why :-)

1. The bubble links appear when one pastes a full URL onto a Next-Gen page (or a page using the new editor).
2. The standard links appear (without bubbles) if you select some text (click links icon or CTRL+K and paste in a URL.

![bubble URL versus Standard Link.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/79822i53A7E306DDE48EF8/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "bubble URL versus Standard Link.png")

-Mike


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