Description

In Confluence Cloud, code snippets do not allow any inline highlighting or emphasis (e.g. background highlight, partial selection styling).

This makes it difficult to:

• Call out important lines in examples
• Highlight changed code in specs or reviews
• Emphasize parameters, keywords, or placeholders without breaking the code block

Use cases include technical specifications, API documentation, and design reviews where code readability and selective emphasis are critical.

Requested improvement:

• Ability to visually highlight selected text inside a code block (e.g. background highlight or annotation)
• Highlighting should be non‑semantic (does not affect copy/paste output)

This is especially important for Cloud, where many teams have migrated from Server/DC and rely heavily on inline documentation.

Why this is impactful

• Improves technical documentation quality
• Reduces need for workarounds (multiple code blocks, screenshots, comments)
• Common feature in developer‑focused editors and docs tools