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  2. CONFSERVER-24666

It is no longer possible to easily insert text of an arbitrary colour in the new Confluence 4 editor

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      In the old wiki markup editor, it was easy to insert text using all the colours of the rainbow! (using the {color} macro).

      These days, users are restricted to only being able to easily use colours that are available in the colour picker in the editor toolbar. If you want to use a different colour, you have to use the insert wiki markup dialog.

      It would be great if there was a way to easily select other colours. This could be accomplished, for example, by allowing a user or administrator to customise the colours that appear in the picker, or adding an option to the picker that allows an arbitrary colour choice to be typed in.

      This was raised by a customer on answers.atlassian.com: https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/35516/how-do-i-revert-to-the-default-text-color-in-the-confluence-4-x-editor

            [CONFSERVER-24666] It is no longer possible to easily insert text of an arbitrary colour in the new Confluence 4 editor

            John Masson added a comment -

            Thanks for raising/commenting.

            We don't have any plans to make this change, so will close this ticket.

            John Masson added a comment - Thanks for raising/commenting. We don't have any plans to make this change, so will close this ticket.

            onkeldom added a comment -

            OK, I don't care anymore. I just hacked the editor plugin and inserted our CI-colors there. Still it would be a useful improvement for Confluence ... since it's an "enterprise product".

            onkeldom added a comment - OK, I don't care anymore. I just hacked the editor plugin and inserted our CI-colors there. Still it would be a useful improvement for Confluence ... since it's an "enterprise product".

            Marko Vidberg added a comment -

            For those of us that are colour blind, having to select from that selector box is annoying as we have no indication of what the colour is. Would be good if we could at least have a pop-up or alt tag that shows the actual colour hex code.

            Marko Vidberg added a comment - For those of us that are colour blind, having to select from that selector box is annoying as we have no indication of what the colour is. Would be good if we could at least have a pop-up or alt tag that shows the actual colour hex code.

            onkeldom added a comment -

            This is a pain in the a** since the beginning. It's OK to reduce the colors coming from the old Confluence version, but administrators should have a possibility to set those colors matching a given CD.

            onkeldom added a comment - This is a pain in the a** since the beginning. It's OK to reduce the colors coming from the old Confluence version, but administrators should have a possibility to set those colors matching a given CD.

              jmasson@atlassian.com John Masson
              jclark@atlassian.com Joe Clark
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