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Extra lines between expandable text boxes

Eric Boivin

Hi all

I have a confluence page where I report progress per week. I use expandable text boxes for each week. I found a "glitch" that I cannot fix.

Sometimes, I see one or two extra lines between my expandable texts and I cannot delete these lines. It looks like this:

> Week 1
> Week 2

>Week 3

> Week 4
> Week 5

Any ideas how to fix this (or at least see what is causing this)?

Thanks

Accepted answers

Ryan Cunico

I figured it out - you do have to use the source editor.

You will see

"

"

between those expandable sections with the extra spacing.

change the "" to "" and it will fix the spacing issues!!

All comments

Robert Reiner _smartics_

If you cannot get rid of the extra markup in the editor you may try the Confluence Source Editor (if you are on Confluence server).

Eric Boivin

Unfortunately, I do not have access to the Confluence server itself.

It's not a major problem for me, it's just "visually annoying".

Eric Boivin

Unfortunately, I do not have access to the Confluence server itself.

It's not a major problem for me, it's just "visually annoying".

if you have other options, let me know.

AnnWorley

If you are a Confluence administrator on a downloaded server you can add the Confluence Source Editor for free using the Confluence Admin>Manage Add-ons page.

There is also a paid add-on compatible with both server and Cloud: Source Editor for Confluence

I am curious whether the behavior you describe (extra lines between expand macros) is happening in multiple browsers or if it looks different depending on browser?

Eric Boivin

Hi Ann

I don't have admin rights on the server (I'm only a user).

I've tried with Chrome, IE11 and Firefox and all three display the same extra lines.

AnnWorley

Please paste the storage format of an example/test page that is displaying the extra lines into a code block on this thread. To get the storage format, please go to the page tools menu (... on most versions) and choose View Storage Format:

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Eric Boivin

Hi Ann

I do not have the View Storage Format option (only view source which does not give any info).

Ryan Cunico

I figured it out - you do have to use the source editor.

You will see

"

"

between those expandable sections with the extra spacing.

change the "" to "" and it will fix the spacing issues!!

Eric Boivin

Hi Ryan

Thanks for the information. I will pass that on to our administrators and ask them to install Source Editor.

It sounds like this is going to work for me too.

BR
Eric Boivin

Eric Boivin

I confirm that Ryan's solution works perfectly! (at least for me)

Cheers
Eric

Nilufer Saltuk

It worked for me too. Thank you!

Philipp Gerlach

I found a workaround without the source editor:

Use the mouse to drag and drop the expandable text blocks close together. After you drop a text block immediately below the prevoius one, Confluence will insert a new break between the two again, but this is the "right" type of break which does not show as an empty line in vew mode.

If you do this consistently for all your text blocks, your old "wrong" breaks will end up all at the end of the page and can be deleted there.

Hope that helps (until atlassian finally condescends to fix this bug...)

Peter_Nikolakopoulos

This works, and is simple and easy! Thank you!

Pablo Sanchez_84cp2k

Simple solution: Download Chrome, and you will be able to Select the blank space using the shift key. Once it is selected you can delete it. (This didn't work for me on Firefox or Safari).

Kamran Ansari

Hi Pablo,

How do you select the blank space using the Shift key? Is there a key combination or the use of mouse along with the Shift key?

Thanks!

Kamran Ansari

Thanks for this workaround! I tried this and it works, but I can't enter line breaks between the macros in case I wanted them. I have to go to the bottom of the page and start dragging them down, starting with the last one. When I finally reach the one where I need the line break, I hit Enter and it's the same issue - undeletable line break

This is frustrating.

Maria Garcia_d44b0h

Hello,
I had the same issue and solve it cutting the expand macro and pasting it again, empty line dissappear.

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