Get to know the new and simplified content layout

The new, simplified content layout has reorganized and streamlined some key workflow actions and tools to make creating, collaborating, and viewing content in Confluence more predictable and efficient. With these beta improvements, headers, sidebars, and panels are now consistent across all features.

What to expect:

• Consistently placed headers, menus, and toolbars across all of Confluence.

• A new floating action bar that includes a Details panel for pages and live docs.

• More actions in the top right ... menu

• Choose how your toolbar appears

Breadcrumbs

The navigation path of your content, also referred to as the breadcrumbs, will now be tucked away while you’re working at the top left of your screen. By selecting the down carat (), you can now view the entire path whenever needed.

When the left sidebar is expanded, breadcrumbs will appear progressively, as you add content to whatever you’re working on. However, it should always be viewable when the sidebar is collapsed.

Title area

Information under the title of your content will now appear progressively, as it becomes available and relevant. Here’s what you can now find and interact with in the area below a page or live doc’s title:

• Content owner

• Content classification

• Content status

• Emoji reactions

• Read time (once content is added)

• Views (once content has been viewed)

The floating action bar

To help you find and access your most important tools with greater ease, a floating bar of action buttons is now available. It will remain at the bottom right of your screen as you create, collaborate on, and view live docs and pages. Here’s what you can do from the floating action bar:

• Open a panel view of all comments - unread, open, and resolved - on a live doc or page

• Open a Details panel that includes your content’s most relevant metadata

• Add an emoji reaction

• Create a Loom video

• Enhance your workflow with Atlassian Intelligence (Premium and Enterprise only)

The Details panel

Displayed on the right side of your screen, the Details panel allows you to view and manage key aspects and information related to your content. Here’s what you can do from this panel:

• View and change content ownership

• See how many views your content has gotten, and access Analytics

• View content length and read time

• View all contributors

• View creator name, avatar, and created date

• View and change content status

• View and change content classification

• View and add labels

• View and interact with any included files, attachments, Jira links, or Smart Links

The More actions () menu

Now that various items have been relocated from the header and into the Details panel, the updated More actions () menu now includes:

• Star

• Watch settings

• View changes

• Undo

• Redo

• Find and replace

• Version history (view changes)

• Automations

• Apps

• Copy

• Move

• Templates and import

• Convert to to live doc or page

• Export

• Archive and delete

Note: With the new content layout enabled, Marketplace app buttons in the header of pages and live docs will not be supported. Impacted apps are in the process of being supported in other locations. To learn more, visit this status page.

Select where your toolbar appears

When you select ... from the toolbar menu, you can choose where you would like your toolbar to appear:

• Fixed at the top, or

• In-line when you select text

How to use the new toolbar and insert elements

 

Fixed at top toolbar

Fixed at the top is how the toolbar has traditionally appeared in Confluence. When you fix your toolbar at the top, more elements such as media, tables, and emojis will appear.

 

In-line toolbar

For a more minimalist feel you can let it appear in-line when you select text. The in-line toolbar lets the formatting tools come to you, rather than having to scroll or move to the top of the page.

To select text:

• Drag your cursor over words

• Select the drag and drop handle. This will highlight text within a content block.

• Use keyboard shortcuts:

  • Mac Command + Shift + Left/Right arrow

  • Windows Ctrl + Shift + Left/Right arrow