Confluence Cloud new editor — no way to identify current heading level (regression)
In the new Confluence Cloud editor (edit-v2), I am unable to determine the heading level (H1, H2, H3, etc.) of a selected block.
What's missing:
There is no Paragraph Style dropdown in the toolbar
The floating context menu shows a "Change format" option, but the current heading level is not highlighted or indicated in any way
Expected behavior:
The active heading format should be clearly visible — either in the toolbar or highlighted in the "Change format" submenu — so users can identify the current heading level without guessing.Actual behavior:
No visual indication of the current heading level is shown anywhere in the editor UI.Steps to reproduce:
Open a Confluence page in edit-v2 mode
Click on any heading
Open the block context menu → Change format
Observe: no heading level is highlighted or pre-selected
Impact:
This makes it impossible to audit or maintain heading hierarchy in documents without trial and error. This was available in the classic editor and appears to be a regression.Environment: Confluence Cloud, browser: Google Chrome , Windows 11.
Has anyone else encountered this? Is there a workaround?
Hi @Irina Smirnova and welcome to the Community!
I suppose you are referring to live docs (in normal Confluence pages I can definitely see a paragraph style dropdown in the header).
The style dropdown is there, but you do need to force it a little to appear,
When you want to get formatting options for a header in a live doc, select the full header text. A popup toolbar will appear, that looks like this:
The text styles dropdown is the one that displays H2 in the above screenshot.
Hope this helps!
Yeah, thank you, Walter,
Yes indeed I finally found the formatting toolbar after selecting the full header text. I guess I used to see the current formatting while hovering over the "chessboard" toast on the left of the header. Anyway you can get what you want it and it's good!
Thanks again and have a good day!
Irina
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