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Font, Font Size

Ohad Raz

This is getting pretty frustrating.

All I want is to change the font and font size of some text in a page I created.

Cannot find the way to do so.

Nothing in the editor toolbar, no "{font}" macro, no "{style}" marco.

This is pretty basic.

What am I missing?

Accepted answers

Peter Van de Voorde

Ohad,

For Confluence follow these instructions :

Go to your Manage add-ons page in Confluence Administration

Select to see the System add-ons.

Search for the Confluence HTML Macros , open it by clicking on the arrow to the left of the name.

Enable the html (html-xhtml) and other modules you need.

That should do it.

Best regards,

Peter

All comments

Jeff Thomas

What about the HTML Macro?

It would need to be enabled by your system adminstrator.

Ohad Raz

It is not enabled at our organization. Will talk to the IT guys...

Peter Van de Voorde

Hi Ohad,

This should help you out : https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/198044/turn-on-html-macro-in-jira-6-0

Best regards,

Peter

Ohad Raz

IT says that they found "how to install" HTML Macro for version 5.3. We're running version 6.

Is there no HTML Macro for version 6?

Ohad Raz

Hey Peter,

Thank you for your help.

I forwarded this link to the IT guys, and they have enabled it.

However, now, when trying to use it, I get the following error message:

Error rendering macro 'html' : Notify your Confluence administrator that "Bob Swift Software - HTML Plugin" requires a valid license. Reason: USER_MISMATCH

Any ideas?

Peter Van de Voorde

Hi Ohad,

I think your IT guys installed the Bob Swift HTML plugin instead of enabling the macro that's already available in Jira 6.

Best regards,

Peter

Ohad Raz

they say they didn't install any Bob Swift HTML plugin.

THey say they just followed the instructions on:

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/198044/turn-on-html-macro-in-jira-6-0

Will check with them...

Peter Van de Voorde

Ohad,

For Confluence follow these instructions :

Go to your Manage add-ons page in Confluence Administration

Select to see the System add-ons.

Search for the Confluence HTML Macros , open it by clicking on the arrow to the left of the name.

Enable the html (html-xhtml) and other modules you need.

That should do it.

Best regards,

Peter

Ohad Raz

Yap, this is the one.

Thanks, Peter!

unknown

I'm trying to do something similar using the Adaptavist {span} macro. But it's very hit or miss whether it works or not*. It generally previews properly but only works sometimes with the following parameters

ID - anything but not blank
class - wiki-content (the documentation says you can define your own classes but I wasn't successful)
style - font-size:80%;

* is the moon full? are there secret characters in the markup? Who knows? Using "Cloud" nee "OnDemand" and we're not allowed to look at the markup. Deleting the whole thing 3 or 4 times and re-entering it sometimes helps which makes me look suspiciously at the underlying markup.

Rosi Rodrigues

Hey Ohad, can you describe the step by step of how you did it? I'm stuck on this part.

Rosi Rodrigues

Man, this confluence its definately not newbie proof. All I want is to change the font size of text in a page. Why is it so difficult?

Richard Cross

This is a pretty basic feature - is there no other solution besides purchasing a commercial plugin?

Vikram Seshadri

Second this. Can't believe the hoops you have to jump through to do something as simple as change font size. Plus, if you're just a lowly user, you're SOL.

Vikram Seshadri

Plus, this question has been asked in 2013, and it's now 2015. How long does it take to get a font size option in the editor ?

Project Manager10

I just went to modify a page and spent 5 minutes trying to figure out how to change the font. This is the biggest idiocy I have ever seen! Please tell me this is a freaking joke.

And the addons referenced in this thread don't even exist any more, at least not under the names given in this thread.

Clinton Bradley

I totally agree. How long is it going to take to get an editor with the most basic of necessary functions without having to use convoluted methods. Text size, background color, justified text, lists with bullets and numbering schemes that can be changed, font selection, superscript, subscript, columns that flow text etc., etc.. Man this stuff is super basic and should be in the editor already. Yes you can jump through HTML, CSS, macros and other hoops to do it but those are just super dumb and long winded ways to do basic text entry that should never interrupt the ability to just write and edit a bit of text content. It's also incredibly tough to convince regular people to use the incredibly limited editor features and they invariably end up writing content in external word processor applications and asking us IT guys to handle the formatting to make it look like their external doc. Please take this very seriously and get it together Atlasssian - Wordpress and other CMS platforms are way ahead of you in this regard.

Rosi Rodrigues

This lack of care creates a hateful feelings towards Jira. My company uses the solution but not everyone is a developer. If you guys want to sell JIRA Confluence and compete in the Project Management solutions industry, you guys should care to users that are not code-friendly and update an such necessary function.

Diego Nunes

About 4 years it seems...

I believe planning a world cup or maybe the olympics takes less work than implementing this, huh?

Peter Wake

It's doubly annoying, because there used to be great features for control of font size back when they had a markup based system.

The "new" WYSIWIG (whether you like it or not) system is awful. It gets slower and slower and slower the more edits you make, and you have to save the page and re-open to fix it.

This would matter less if it wasn't only barely acceptable in responsiveness to start with.

It took away control, speed, flexibility, and made it impossible to simply cut and paste text to and from any editor without messed up formatting.

From the point-of-view of a regular user, Confluence hasn't gained a single useful feature in the last decade, but has only got slower, with valuable features taken away. It was fantastic back in 2008. Now, I'd just as soon pick Sharepoint -- yes, that's how far Confluence has fallen.

Atlassian, please, accept you were wrong, and that the motivations for the single editor (mainly xml storage of the document from what Atlassian wrote in their own documents) should not have led to this. Storage format shouldn't restrict what editor, or formatting system you can use.

Lachlan Young

Its a bit limited but I often use markup to change my size.

Head to Insert -> Markup then select Markdown and you can then change the font size by doing something like # Hello World. The more # you have in front of your text the smaller it is.

It goes all the way up to six #'s.

Casey Maynard

Most of the time I need something larger than the default # Hello World font size. Can I make the font size larger (not smaller?)

Dennis T

Actually adding # just converts them to headings. So this won’t allow you to change font sizes on the same line.

unknown

If you want to control the font size, you can use the Div macro:

Click where you want to add formatted text
Click on: Insert more content > Other macros > Select macro > Formatting > Div
In the Styles field, enter your in-line CSS in (with or without quotes):

"font-size: 48px;"

Click Preview
Add your text in the macro box
Click on Publish and your text will be formatted

Or, you can go crazy with the style box...

"background-color: #efefef; border-radius: 16px; border: 1px solid #666; font-size: 48px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 1rem 1.5rem;"

Noel McKeown

2018 and still no easy way to change font size, the most basic of thing!

Have wasted about 20 mins trying to do this, resorted to using the 'Font Size' macro but its rubbish.

Justin Rigsby

I just tried this out. It works perfectly. Thank you so much!

Kirk G

I don't have a Div macro ...

gordon bradley

I want someone at Confluence to comment on how they don't provide the most basic, elementary functionalities--or ever plan to in the future--and then farm it out to plugin makers who charge for it. This is weaksauce, embarrassing and scandalous. EVERY Basic WYSIWYG editor has at LEAST all this functionality and more ffs.

Phillip Baker

Probably kind of a lame workaround, but I was able to meet my need to control font size by using Gliffy. I created a diagram with a single text box containing the word/s that I needed to manipulate, and inserted it into my Confluence page. I configured the diagram to suppress the display of the toolbar so that the text appears native on the page.

For me there was an added bonus in that the text doesn't show up in a TOC

G Bradley

I am an expert Confluence user and doing administration at this stage.

Confluence is, before anything else, a CMS and collaborative workflow platform.
Confluence has BRASS BALLS (hope you read this, Atlassian!) to sell itself as either of the above. Confluence is a huge scam on many levels!
To get even BASIC CMS functionality, we have had to buy Content Formatting Plugins by Adaptivist.
To get even base-level workflows, we have had to buy Comala Workflows.

Given the price, to be disingenuous and suggest that users buy a hobbled, incomplete CMS/collab workflow environment from Atlassian, then spend thousands MORE on features they couldn't bother to include/implement...

...I CANNOT believe the cheek of them. It's breathtaking in its audacity.

Aaron Palumbo

I'm not sure if everyone has this, but in the top right corner of my page when I'm in edit mode I see `<>`, right between Find/Replace and Help. This brings you to an html source editor where you can add a <span style="font-size: 48px">Big Text</span> to the text you want to change.

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