How do I edit the native Confluence page format?

[Sigrid Schoepel]

I need to troubleshoot a macro and I cannot do that without editing the page in its native format. That seems to be gone (or with all the recent changes it moved and is hidden now). 

Does anyone know how to edit the native format (not just view it, actually edit it)?

[Shawn Doyle - ReleaseTEAM]

Hi @Sigrid Schoepel 

There are marketplace addons that will get you an html editor. 

Search Results | Atlassian Marketplace

explore and pick one that works for you.

[Sigrid Schoepel]

thanks, that's disappointing. There used to be the ability to edit the source.

[Kristian Klima]

Hi @Sigrid Schoepel 

I don't know what sort of troubleshooting you try to perform but you should know that editing HTML in Cloud and Server/DC is not the same thing.

• On the on-prem Confluence, editing HTML was often the only way how to save the page's formatting. On Cloud, that's not really an issue and I've never run into Cloud issues that would require HTML editing on Server.
• You can't really force formatting via HTML on Cloud. For example, even if you move Macro A's HTML bloc into Macro B's HTML bloc because the normal editor doesn't allow you to do so... Confluence will resolve this by ... placing Macro A outside of Macro B anyway. For all intents and purposes, Cloud does not allow you to do things that don't work on Cloud's via the normal Editor.

Admittedly, it's been a while since I last NEEDED to do on Cloud Confluence because I didn't run into issues that would made me need it :) 

I find HTML editn useful for things like 'I need to apply BOLD' to all 30 instances of Follow these steps on that page.