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How to turn off automatic link anchoring?

Martin Vano
July 9, 2020

Whenever I paste a string that looks like a link into confluence, it automatically wraps it in <a> tag. I guess this is intended use for 99% cases, except I am currently right now that 1%. 

I work for a marketing company and we handling integrations with plenty of external partners. Each of them uses different URL structures to pass information, therefore we are working on internal documentation containing URL structure of each partner. I need to be able to highlight parts of the URL and describe what each part represents. I can manually remove the link using tooltip that appears on any confluence anchor, but as soon as I navigate towards the end of anything that looks like an HTTP link, confluence automatically converts it into <a> tag, ads href and removes any formatting! This is really driving me nuts as it's impossible to practically remove anchors from any string that looks like and keep it that way. 

Is there any setting in confluence or on-page level that can help to resolve this issue? Simply said, I don't want to interpret HTTP links as clickable links and just leave them in the document and plain string

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Jack Brickey
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January 19, 2022

Hi @Martin Vano , did you find a solution? Are you trying to basically paste the url as plain text? I am not where I can try this at the moment but will later today. I wonder if you can use control + shift + V or cmd + shift + V.

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