How to escape a dash character in Confluence

[Christian Becker]

Hi There,

I'm trying to insert a Dash as first character in a list.

• - Something
• - Someting differnt

But when inserting the dash and than adding a space, confluence will remove the last entry of the list instead.

There is a workaround by first inserting someting and then inserting the dash - but this can't realy be the solution.

Escaping using a Slash didn't help

Bests

Chris

[René Jansen]

just wondering if there is a solution. I am trying to make a table of compiler options like -mhard-floar but that ends up in unreadable disaster. Just an option to switch off all 'helpful' things would be great.

[Christian Becker]

OK, now we got 3 workarounds. Obviously this is a know issue. Are there any intentions to fix this?

[Davin Studer]

You could raise an issue for this at jira.atlassian.com. That is where Atlassian tracks bugs and feature requests for their products.

[Davin Studer]

Another workaround would be to use a different character such as the ~ character. And then after your list is complete do a find and replace. To do a find and replace hit ctrl + f while in edit mode and you will see a bar drop down with text boxes for the find a replace. Not ideal I know, but it is a workaround.

[Thomas Schlegel]

Hi Christian,

a workaround is, clicking the undo-button (or STRG+z) after the last entry was removed.