How do I disable automatic hyperlink insertion?

[Chris Atkinson]

Every string pasted into a confluence page containing a period automatically converts into a hyperlink. This is extremely annoying and I'd like to turn it off, but this doesn't seem to be possible?

The closest I can get appears to be using https://id.atlassian.com/manage-profile/link-preferences, but for some reason this doesn't allow me to turn the feature off.

I'd rather not have file paths/names and other common strings with periods in them turning into non-functional hyperlinks for no reason.

EDIT:

The fact the links can (painstakingly, one-by-one) be removed doesn't help. This isn't really a viable solution if I, for example, paste a list of 20+ files into a page and all of them get unavoidably converted into non-functional links.

Instead of a single keypress, now I have to go in and click through twenty-plus sub-menus to remove each individual link one at a time. I didn't ask for this to happen, and it should never have been done to something that isn't even properly formatted like a URL in the first place.

The fact that this feature gets so many false positive results that create broken links which take heaps of unnecessary work to fix is making it very hard to understand why it can't be switched off; or at least customised to the point where a single period within a string isn't considered an attempt to write a URL.

I want to be able to write about regular development tasks. Referencing file.csv or database table.column without a text editor "helpfully" inserting broken links to nowhere every other sentence.

At this rate I'll have to format the entire wiki as a giant code block.

[Barbara Szczesniak]

@Chris Atkinson A couple of things you can do:

• If typing the text: the text turns to a link when you type a space after it. Immediately press Ctrl+Z (or whatever the undo command is on your keyboard) to change it back to plain text.
• If pasting the text turns it into a smart link:
  1. Change the link type to URL (if it's not already URL)
  2. Select the Unlink button on the link toolbar
     
     

[Christos Markoulatos]

Hi @Chris Atkinson 

This is what possible at the moment:

You can control Smart Link display via Link preferences (Manage account → Link preferences) to set default view to URL and add domain exceptions, but this affects rendering (URL/Inline/Card/Embed) rather than whether URL‑like text becomes a hyperlink; for truly plain text (e.g., filenames or domains), use inline code backticks like `ABCD.so` or a Code snippet block. A site‑wide admin setting is tracked in JRACLOUD‑79892.
Docs: Smart Link preferences • Announcement in CONFCLOUD‑67922

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