Child pages
  • Working with Text Breaks
Skip to end of metadata
Go to start of metadata

Paragraph Break

On a Confluence page, a continuous line of text with two carriage returns at its end forms a paragraph. This is equivalent to a continuous line of text followed by a blank line.

When rendered into HTML, the result is a line of text wrapped in a set of <p></p> tags.

Line Break

Confluence provides two options for forcing a line break within a paragraph of text:

  • Implicitly, by entering a single carriage return at its end.
  • Explicitly, by entering two consecutive backslashes:
    Unknown macro: {nomarkup}

    (
    )

    .

When rendered into HTML, the result is a paragraph of text split into separate lines by <br> tags, wherever a forced line break appears.

For most purposes, explicit line breaks are not required because a single carriage return is enough.

The examples below show how to use explicit line breaks.

What you need to type

What you will get

here is some text

Unknown macro: {nomarkup}



Unknown macro: {nomarkup}

divided


Unknown macro: {nomarkup}

using line


Unknown macro: {nomarkup}

breaks

here is some text
divided
using line

breaks

This is a short list:
* Point 1
Text to go with point 1
* Point 2

Unknown macro: {nomarkup}



Text to go with point 2 with a break

This is a short list:

  • Point 1
    Text to go with point 1
  • Point 2

    Text to go with point 2 with a break

If you wish to use multiple consecutive line breaks, each should be separated by a space character. For example, use {{

Unknown macro: {nomarkup}



}} for two consecutive line breaks.

Horizontal Rule

Use four dashes (----) to create a horizontal rule.

Make sure that the dashes are on a separate line from the rest of the text.

What you need to type

What you will get

here is some text

Unknown macro: {nomarkup}


divided by a horizontal rule

here is some text


divided by a horizontal rule

RELATED TOPICS

Working with Lists
[Confluence Notation Guide Overview]

Take me back to Wikis Help Guide

  • No labels