Confluence Cloud new editor — no way to identify current heading level (regression)

[Irina Smirnova]

 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:

1. Open a Confluence page in edit-v2 mode

2. Click on any heading

3. Open the block context menu → Change format

4. 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?

[Walter Buggenhout]

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!