Half a document turns into links when going into edit mode

Christoph Luthy

Hi, 

First-time forum user - long term confluence user, Hi! from Cambodia

 

There is an issue that bothers me for a while. 

This happens only occasionally but when it happens it creates a lot of work for me. 

I am working on a document in confluence and when going back into edit mode, a large part of the document turns into a Link. Entire paragraphs are linked to blank. When I then manually remove all the links and save, it looks fine, but as soon as I go back into edit mode, the text re-appears as link. 

In this screenshot, everything after the 3rd line was not a link previously and now appears as a link. 

Andreas_obxgjv

Hello @Christoph Luthy and welcome to the community.

Given the situation you described, I would suggest having a look at the source of the page you're editing. E.g. maybe there's a <a> tag somewhere that is accidentally not closed correctly by the Confluence editor. Anyhow, I'm sure the source of the page may provide an answer to your question. It may also help to copy the source into a more powerful text/ code editor like Atom.io, that is able to highlight unclosed tags.

You can easily view and edit the source of a Confluence page by using a free app called Confluence Source Editor by Atlassian.