Removing Noformat panel from page

[Beth Vinson]

I inherited a confluence page, where the person who constructed the page, used "no format" panels to put everything into. I have removed the text, and need to remove the panel. The panel doe not have a tab on it where I can click/delete, to get the panel off the page. I've tried to highlight it, back text into it to get it highlighted, etc., but nothing works. I just have a panel with no color, no tabs to click, taking up space that I need, and cannot delete or remove it. Any suggestions would be greatly welcome!

[Tomislav Tobijas · Accepted solution]

I think I had a similar 'issue' once, and for me, duplicating the page worked. Like, on a duplicated item, I could remove elements, and then I used 'select all' method to simply copy things from the duplicated page to the source one 👀

Not saying it will definitelly work here, but might be worth a try... 

[Beth Vinson]

Oh, that sounds very familiar with something I've done before as well. Sometimes it seems you need to just start over with the page, or actually duplicate it, make a copy, like you just described, and for some reason it then works. Go figure! I'm finding with both Jira and Confluence, that there are many different ways to do the same thing. I think I'll go back to old HTML, that I used to do. At least it's all one style :)

Thank you so much for taking the time to respond @Tomislav Tobijas 

[Dan Breyen · Accepted solution]

Hi @Beth Vinson I did a quick search in Edge and CoPilot gave me this info: removing noformat panel 

That would at least be something to try. Looks like you can mess with the source markup and manually get rid of it.

Hope that helps.

[Beth Vinson]

Thank you so much, @Dan Breyen   I tried that and was fairly successful with it. I found another way to do it, but I can't seem to get the photos to copy to the page here. It's going to "Other Macros", chose the panel.

To remove these panels, click anywhere inside the panel, then in the tools, select "Page Layout"  and select "Remove section" 

[Beth Vinson]

@Dan Breyen I did want to further comment on your search in Edge and CoPilot for removing the noformat panel. It states that you can highlight and delete the noformat panel itself, however, there is no way I could find to actually highlight the panel or box so I could delete it. That was actually the initial problem I ran into because not being able to delete the inserted panel was impossible from this process. I did, however, manage to get it deleted using the Page Layout, Remove Section process. I do appreciate your suggestions though. Thank you !

[Joshua Brock _ Seibert Group_ GmbH · Accepted solution]

Hi @Beth Vinson ...

Glad you got the panel off the page!


For anyone landing here later: clicking inside the element and using Page Layout → Remove section (as Dan suggested) or duplicating the page (Tomislav's route) are both solid ways to clear out stubborn legacy elements that don't show a selection handle. These usually come from pages created in the older editor, which is also why the editing experience feels so inconsistent from page to page.

One thought on your closing comment about going back to old HTML for the sake of one consistent style: that works, but it tends to recreate exactly this situation, where raw blocks the next page owner can't easily edit or remove.

If you're open to a marketplace app, this is the problem AURA Content Formatting Macros was built for: 

• 20+ professionally designed macros (tabs, cards, panels, expands, buttons, and more) that work right inside the Confluence editor, no code needed
• Every element is a proper macro with visible controls, so the next person who inherits the page can edit or delete it without fighting the editor
• Admin-level Color Palettes and Custom Fonts keep styling consistent across the whole instance — "all one style" without hand-writing it
• An HTML macro is included for the cases where you really do want raw HTML
• Works on both Cloud and Data Center

Here's the Marketplace listing if you want a look: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1221974

And as always, in full disclosure, I work at Seibert Group, the team behind the Aura Apps.


Hope this helps!

Joshua
Content Writer & US Representative
Aura Apps and Agile Hive (products of Seibert Group GmbH)

[Murray le Roux]

For anyone landing here later, the cleanest way to remove a stubborn No-Format block in the new editor. No need to duplicate the page or touch the markup:

1. Single-click directly on the panel itself (not inside it) so the whole macro is selected. it gets a blue outline and a small floating toolbar appears. Click the trash icon and it's gone.
2. If the toolbar won't appear (common with empty macros carried over from the old editor), click the empty line just below the panel to place your cursor there, then press Backspace. that deletes the macro block above it. If its still not working press Esc first so the cursor leaves the macro body, then single-click the macro once and Backspace.
3. The reason it feels un-deletable is that No-Format blocks from the legacy editor often don't show a selection handle until you click the macro node rather than inside its (now empty) body.

Glad you got it sorted!

[Beth Vinson]

Thank you @Murray le Roux for your answer. I actually did try all of those, but there was no tab or panel marker to click, and it would not allow me to click the empty blue line, either. I did the actual Page Layout, then Remove Section. Worked perfectly. I appreciate everyone's input.