v7.2 How to hide external link icon?

[Megan Ellis]

We just upgraded to v7.2 (yay!) and noticed that our external links (which are actually links to other spaces) configured in the Sidebar and Header are showing with a little green arrow icon. Is there a way to disable/hide that icon?

TIA!

Megan

[Megan Ellis · Accepted solution]

I figured out that I can just change the wiki markup to point to a spacekey (as described here https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-wiki-markup-251003035.html) and the icon disappears.

Thanks for your suggestion!

[Minh Tran · Accepted solution]

@Megan Ellis as far as i know the Confluence AUI does not have any icon with that green color

So i believe it is from your website customisation

I suggest you to use custom css to hide it

See this for how to add your custom css https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/styling-confluence-with-css-166528400.html

[Minh Tran]

See this question for something similar https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Display-icon-for-external-links/qaq-p/262851

Your case is pretty similar but doing thing reversely