Right-Click to Copy

[Justin Fidler]

Our users are reporting that when they highlight text on standard content in a Confluence page, then right-click, it gives the optoin to Comments, but no option to Copy, like if they want to copy the content and paste into a Word document.

I confirmed that behavior. I think before, the right-click was just the general browser right-click, and now it's been taken over for the comment option (which used to appear just after higlighting, as I recall).

Is there some setting we need to adjust so users can highlight and copy text to clipboard? This is a fairly common need we have.

[Mikael Sandberg · Accepted solution]

Hi @Justin Fidler,

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

This is expected behavior, it has been like that since the inline comment was introduced in Confluence. You can still use Ctrl-C/Command-C to copy the text and then paste it somewhere else. 

[Mikael Sandberg]

And you should still see the browser menu if you highlight the text and right-click.

[Justin Fidler]

Thanks. Ctrl-C works. However, right-click just shows the Comment (similar to your screenshot) and doesn't give a copy option from the browser, even when right clicking further on the highlighted text. Just the comment box. This is in Chrome 140.0.7339.128 (latest) on Windows. We had another user test, also Chrome on Windows, and same result.

[Mikael Sandberg]

I would say that is a Chrome issue, not Confluence. My screenshot is from a Mac using Chrome 140.0.7339.133.

[Justin Fidler]

Indeed that looks to be the case. I just tested in Edge and it worked as expected (copy option is there).