Creating diagrams from text

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Text diagrams are quick to write, easy to review and redraw themselves when the text changes. These guides cover getting the common text languages onto a page, plus where to go when you would rather describe the diagram than write it.

#Common tasks

You want to

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Add a Mermaid flowchart or sequence diagram

Insert a Mermaid diagram in Confluence

Add a PlantUML diagram

Insert a PlantUML diagram in Confluence

Describe a diagram and let AI draw it

Create a diagram with AI in Confluence

Start from a template instead of a blank editor

Find a diagram template in Confluence

Know what to check in an AI draft

Create diagrams with AI

See every text language and what it draws

Diagram languages

Learn the text editor

Text editor

Fix a text diagram that will not draw

Diagram does not render

#Guides in this section

Insert a Mermaid diagram in ConfluenceAdd a Mermaid flowchart, sequence diagram or other Mermaid chart to a Confluence page with /diagram or the page byline.Insert a PlantUML diagram in ConfluenceAdd a PlantUML sequence, class, component or activity diagram to a Confluence page with /diagram or the page byline.Create a diagram with AI in ConfluenceDescribe a diagram in plain English and let Diagram Studio draw it as an editable Capable diagram.

Write a line, watch it redraw.