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 · Accepted solution]

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. 

[Christoph Luthy]

Tried the code editor - the fix works thanks. Still not sure why this happens with random documents at least once a month. 

Haven't actually detected not closed <a> tags but random empty links (no target, no description) - when removing those, it seems to work. 

Thanks for the input. 

[Pavel Potcheptsov]

Existing bug.

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-52060

[Andreas]

We had this bug on one of our instances and it produced a different "result" than the one described here. The links where broken, meaning they lead to wrong pages/ nowhere. The bug didn't turn text into links that previously wasn't a link. So I'm not quite sure this issues are related.