Confluence is a powerful tool for creating and sharing content with your team. However, sometimes you may want to make more precise changes to your pages, such as adjusting the layout or changing placeholder text. In these cases, viewing your pages as their source code can be extremely helpful.
To view a Confluence page as its source, you will need to use the Source capability. This feature allows you to see the underlying code of your page in various formats, including XML, Atlassian Document Format (ADF), Markdown, and plain text.
Whether you need to adjust the layout, edit placeholder text, or copy and paste or download content, the Source capability has you covered.
Step-by-Step
Follow along with us in this guide to learn how to use the capability.
1. Open the Source capability
You can access the source of a page using the 'Source' capability, that can be accessed from the Capable item at the top of your page.
2. Select file format
This will open the Source modal, from which you can select a file format to view your content in.
2.1. Download the page as a file to your computer
Click on the download button in the top-right to download the page as a file.
2.2. Using the text source to provide information to ChatGPT
The text source tab shows just the text content of your page and makes it easy to provide text to ChatGPT without any formatting issues.
2.3. Copy the page as Markdown for use in the Markdown capability
You can copy the contents of the page as markdown into a Capable Markdown macro.
2.4. Copy the page as HTML for archiving or migration
You can also copy the page as HTML for archival purposes.
