Finding changes on page history

[Rebecca Grant]

I have a page that has regular small updates. I use the page history to see what has changed. I like the feature that colours the changes ("This line was added" green, "This line was removed" pink, "Formatting was changed" blue); however, it is quite hard to find the changes when I look at the history (the colours are quite pale, the page is unfortunately very long, lots of scrolling!). Has anyone got a way of finding the changes on the page please? I am not that technical so not looking for code or scripts, just a way to quickly jump to those green highlights to see what is new.

Thank you.

[Kishan Sharma · Accepted solution]

Hi @Rebecca Grant Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

I haven't come across any option that will jump directly on the new lines added, while comparing 2 versions. I can think of opening developer tools (F12 on Chrome) and search (CTRL + F) for "diff-html-added" in the elements tab, this way you can jump to the sections where the new lines have been added by clicking the arrow keys in the search section. Similarly you can search "diff-html-removed" and 
"diff-html-changed" for lines removed and formatting changed respectively.  Hope this helps.

[Rebecca Grant]

That is just what I need! Thank you so much. 

[Kishan Sharma]

Great, glad that helped 😀

[Somashekhar Sonnagi]

Is there way to remove "Formatting was changed" . I only want 

"This line is added"

"This line is removed"

"Formatting was changed" unnecessarily shows lot of information, which is not relevant. 

[Kishan Sharma]

Hi @Somashekhar Sonnagi Welcome to the Atlassian Community!
No there's no way to remove "Formatting was changed" option. However, in developer tools, you can delete nodes having diff-html-changed class, to remove all lines where formatting was changed. But its a manual process and could be cumbersome if you have lot of information.

example -

<span class="diff-html-changed" data-a11y-before="Start of changed content" data-a11y-after="End of changed content" id="changed-diff-1"></span>