Links in Code/panel Macro

[MPal Pal]

I want to link a particular word in my code block or panel to anothe page in my confluence space. However, when I insert a link in a code block or panel, it doesn't show.

What can I do please?

I am using confluence 3.5

[Renjith Pillai · Accepted solution]

Code block itself is meant to avoid any formatting and render the content as it is. So if you need links inside code block, you may need to use {html} macro and format the content as per your wish.

[MPal Pal]

Hi Renjith,

Thank you for your answer.

I tried the {html} macro but the code block recongizes HTML tags also as part of the code.

For example, say I used this:

{code:XML}
<JMX>
<!--The port RMI registry is exposed-->
<RMIRegistryPort>{html}<A href="http://www.atlassian.com">9999</A>{html}</RMIRegistryPort>

</JMX>
{code}

I have attached a screenshot of what I get.

Any other way we can do this please?

[Deleted user]

I think Renjith meant "instead of using {code}", use html itself to format the code block

for example, something like this - you'd have to "escape" any characters that would cause the html to render, like the opening < in front of the comment to prevent it actually becoming a comment.

{html}
<pre>
<JMX>
     >!--The port RMI registry is exposed-->
     <RMIRegistryPort><A href="http://www.atlassian.com">9999</A></RMIRegistryPort>
  
</JMX>
</pre>
{html}

which would render as

<JMX>
     <!--The port RMI registry is exposed-->
     <RMIRegistryPort>9999</RMIRegistryPort>
  
</JMX>