Allow users to paste image captions and/or replace image without deleting caption

Bill Tubbs

I've been working with Confluence for about 1.5 years and this is one of the most annoying things that wastes my time.

Often you need to update an image in a page without changing the caption.

There doesn't appear to be a way to do this.  No menu option to 'update image'?

If you paste it overwrites the whole image and you have to type in the caption again.

Also, there is no way to paste text into the caption entry box.  When I put the cursor in the caption entry box and press CTRL-v, the text ends up next to the image above the caption.

Is everyone else suffering this bug?

Tomislav Tobijas

Hey @Bill Tubbs ,

Yeah... This probably could be improved a bit. I've tried searching open suggestions on the topic, but couldn't find anything that fits. You could reach out to Atlassian Support and discuss this requirement with them, and their team can probably create a new suggestion on which you can vote and leave comments.

However, there is a workaround you could use:

1. If you navigate to your page/content that contains an image with a caption, on the right side expand info/details of the content and click on the "Attachments" link:
   
2. On the new page/tab that opens, you will see all attachments associated with this content. 
   👉 Here, upload the new image with the same name. This will add a new version of the attachment, and your new image should be displayed with the caption left intact:

Not the most intuitive workaround, but it should work.

Cheers,
Tobi