Why does Confluence use class="auto-cursor-target"

Question

This is more of a curiosity. I often have to edit the storage code for a page to clean up various items. I noticed awhile back that the following code would appear, I guess as a spacer around some objects?

It seems the be filtered out when the page is displayed. Does anyone know why Confluence is inserting this code?

PiginSpace · Answer

This was helpful because after replacing

with , I saw what auto-cursor-target was doing. It managed the space between macro elements, in my case the structured macro element for an ac=info element. Actually, without auto-cursor-target I got a full paragraph height of white space after a note, so when I had consecutive notes it didn't look good. With auto-cursor-target the white space following the note was reduced, which looked much better. This works for all sorts of elements it seems, like checklists. I'd wondered why I sometimes had a lot and sometimes a little white space after these macro elements. Now I know that when I want the standard paragraph white space following, I'll check that I have in the code, and when I want reduced white space following, I'll make sure that I have the auto-cursor-target paragraph. Great find! Thank you.

Christian Czaia [Decadis AG] · Answer

You can manually edit the HTML, get rid of the auto-cursor-target and add a instead. Directly save the page and don't touch or edit it again ant the
is gone. We use this for example for pages that we include in other pages. This will not help everyone but at least it works :-)

Brian Packham · Answer

auto-cursor-target is like a virus. Once it gets into your page is messes up the formatting and it is very hard to get rid of