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Resolution: Won't Fix
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When you type enter in the rich text editor, a paragraph is created – this should be a line break, two of which in succession should produce a paragraph.
In a table, the paragraph is converted to a break, which is inconsistent.
Multiple empty paragraphs should become escaped newlines (
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Most people don't know they can press SHIFT+ENTER to achieve this effect in the RTE. It's not discoverable.
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CONFSERVER-8520 Pressing enter in Rich Text Editor jumps two lines instead of just one
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[CONFSERVER-5949] Change default behaviour of enter to a new paragraph (new line, but with no margins). A user can press enter twice to create space between elements.
Most people don't know they can press SHIFT+ENTER to achieve this effect in the RTE. It's not discoverable.
To me, this is the main problem. The actual design is great, once you know it. I disliked the new editor passionately, until I learned this.. and now I love it!
Can we get creative and just think of a simple way to make this behaviour more discoverable for the average user? Knowledge is power, and it should also be a lot more cost-effective!
| Workflow | Original: JAC Suggestion Workflow 4 [ 3580298 ] | New: JAC Suggestion Workflow 3 [ 4339552 ] |
Closed Won't Fix.
So the most likely scenarios are:
- someone in product or development strongly likes this feature and thinks that people who don't are idiots
OR - the code is written so poorly that it makes what should be a relatively small change into an expensive fix
So we have two likely possibilities:
- Someone's pride is more important than user satisfaction
- This is a poorly written product
Either way this does not reflect well on Atlassian
Reopen this issue. This is profoundly annoying. The Jira interface in general is getting more cluttered and bulky by default. Please stop making our jobs harder, and please stop making it so difficult to change simple interface issues like these. If I had it my way, we'd be looking for an alternative to Jira right now.
I found out that the right click paste as plain text (ctrl+shift+v) option does exactly what people want, pasting with single lines.
Note that the keyboard macro ctrl+shift+v will paste double lines.
the keyboard macro =/= right click option macro. Another case of it's not a bug it's a feature.
I hope this helps other people.
| Comment | [ Bump. A 6 year old problem that keeps reoccurring should be resolved further then a "won't fix". current solutions are manually update a text block with shift+return or add adding a "line-height" in source editor or paste into notepad++ and copy and paste back into confluence. I wonder how many users have gone done this rabbit hole and given up to resorting to these methods. Don't f the customer? How much time could Atlassian save their users by adding a line height feature. ] |
I have just started to use confluence and this is REALLY annoying that this can't be part of the formatting.
How hard would it be given that it's already in the background code. All Confluence would need to do is provide an option to adjust down to 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 2.0 etc.
I think it's a really poor feature to ignore and "not fix".
I'm shocked this hasn't been addressed. No one instinctively expects ENTER to add a newline and some magical empty line they can't even see of easily delete. Since the dawn of computing the expectation of pressing ENTER is getting one newline. This is very poor UI design.