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When editing a page, Confluence marks the latest updates "To delete"

Lucarelli Fabio June 18, 2025

Hello,

When I edit some confluence pages, the content I see before editing is missing when switching in edit mode. If I click on "Show modifications", I see that indeed if I save, the content will be deleted (sorry it's in french):

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Anyone know why is Confluence acting like this ?

And moreover how to fix/disable that strange behaviour.

Thank you.

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Lucarelli Fabio June 19, 2025

My last comment was a false lead, I've edited the page, removed the anchor, Confluence still want to delete.

However I did something straighforward with the rest api, read the page content and save it back without touching anything and problem solved.

This looks like a Confluence bug to me.

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Lucarelli Fabio June 19, 2025

I've checked the source of the page.

Most of the paragraphs start with an anchor:

<p>
<ac:structured-macro ac:name="anchor" ac:schema-version="1" ac:macro-id="6876076a-7328-4267-9e2c-e5a35d929afe">
<ac:parameter ac:name="">FL202505131352</ac:parameter>
</ac:structured-macro>
This is a paragraph
<ac:structured-macro ac:name="jira" ac:schema-version="1" ac:macro-id="08f74d2c-ef0d-4d32-80a0-3dea8615d1d7">
<ac:parameter ac:name="server">System Jira</ac:parameter>
<ac:parameter ac:name="serverId">d02b914a-751d-31b4-9433-3a4e535fd3bb</ac:parameter>
<ac:parameter ac:name="key">JIRAKEY</ac:parameter>
</ac:structured-macro>
</p>

But latest anchors are missing a ac:local-id value like in this case:

<ac:structured-macro ac:name="anchor" ac:schema-version="1" ac:local-id="6dab0f72-e4c0-48c9-a0f9-576404d575d7" ac:macro-id="c056ee4e-13c7-4fd4-b5a5-b1b86100cae7">
<ac:parameter ac:name="">FL202502261023</ac:parameter>
</ac:structured-macro>

And Confluence seems to mark to delete each of the paragraphs without that value... 

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Lucarelli Fabio June 18, 2025

Thank you.

It's happening to anyone from any browser.

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Brant Schroeder
Community Champion
June 18, 2025

@Lucarelli Fabio welcome to the Atlassian community

Is this happening in all browsers?  Have you tried clearing your cache?  Is it only happening to you?  

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