HTML macro not rendering

Question

Hi all,

I have a Page with a HTML macro inside. The content of the macro is a simple text line.

When I edit the text with the confluence editor and save the changes, the content is displayed perfectly.

However, when I do the same via REST API, the request is processed without error (returns 200), but the entire macro's HTML definition is displayed instead of being rendered.

I spent several hours to fix the problem, without success.

Has anyone experienced something similar and has a solution?

Thanks in advance!

Carla Ann Rowland · Answer

Question: Are you using the Code Macro? That is a holding frame for code. It is not a styling tool for the page

I normally do not provide answers that direct users to third party apps, but it sounds like where the path is leading at the moment.  What I did find is that for confluence cloud API related HTML has risks. Here is related thread: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-enable-HTML-Macro-on-Confluence-cloud/qaq-p/1068527

Jozsef Veress · Answer

Hi Carla,

thanks for your answer.

Yes, the HTML code is definitively correct, I checked it with an online HTML validator...

Carla Ann Rowland · Answer

Without seeing your code, made sure you have beginning and closing html. Example

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