Add content ids to REST API storage objects

Iffy M

I'm relatively new to using the confluence REST API and have been having issues with attributes in my HTML content being dropped when uploaded to the page.

For example, if I uploaded the following

<table id="my_table_1">
<tr>
    <th>Company</th>
    <th>Contact</th>
    <th>Country</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Centro comercial Moctezuma</td>
    <td>Francisco Chang</td>
    <td>Mexico</td>
  </tr>
</table>

The content uploaded to the confluence page (which I get from making another pull from the page) drops the id attribute:

<table border="1">
<tr>
    <th>Company</th>
    <th>Contact</th>
    <th>Country</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Centro comercial Moctezuma</td>
    <td>Francisco Chang</td>
    <td>Mexico</td>
  </tr>
</table>

I know this is because confluence uses their own storage format called 'XHTML' (https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-storage-format-790796544.html).

So is there any way to add an ID to an XHTML storage object? Or is there a storage object we can use to ID other storage objects?

Any help is appreciated

unknown

Hello @Iffy M 

In short, the answer is no. When you submit HTML as content, it is parsed by Confluence and sanitised, and some element attributes, like IDs, are stripped out.

You could tag the table as a resource:

<ri:content-entity ri:content-id="my_table_1"/>

That sort of content identification works within Confluence pages, but not in the more generic context that you may be looking for.