How to hide or disable "View inline comments" from your Confluence page(s)
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Note that this KB was created for the Data Center version of the product. Data Center KBs for non-Data-Center-specific features may also work for Server versions of the product, however they have not been tested. Support for Server* products ended on February 15th 2024. If you are running a Server product, you can visit the Atlassian Server end of support announcement to review your migration options.
*Except Fisheye and Crucible
Summary
If you would like to disable the "View Inline Comments" section at the top of your Confluence pages in a specific space (Option 1.) or for entire instance (Option 2.), you can follow the instructions below.
Please note that this will not disable the functionality altogether, and users will still be able to right-click and add comments after clicking the
button, per our documentation: Comment on pages and blog posts.
Solution
Option 1: For a particular space
As this is a customisation, please test it in your stage environment before implementing it into Production.
Go to the space you want to disable the inline comments option
Go to Space Tools > Look and Feel > Style sheet
Add the below lines under Stylesheet
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#view-inline-comment-button{display: none;}
Click on Save
Before Adding the customization
After adding the customization
Option 2: For the entire instance
Go to General Configuration > Custom HTML
Add the following HTML code in the "At end of the HEAD" section and save it.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10<style> #view-inline-comment-button{ display: none; } </style>Before adding the customisation you'll see:
After adding customisation you'll see:
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