In Edit mode, talks can be added anywhere on Confluence pages, including in the middle of the sentence.  


Start with Talk Inline Comments

  1. Select a word, phrase, or sentence and click the talk icon in the pop-up panel.


You can also add talks by just pointing to the appropriate place on your page. To do that make sure that you have enabled adding of discussions in the Talk settings:

  1. Navigate to the page pane
  2. Find and press the Talk icon
  3. Check Enable adding of discussions




After that, you will see the Talk icon when you hover over content on a page. Click the icon and start adding talks.

2. Enter your comment and click Save.

If you add a talk to a text fragment, the Talk icon will be inserted after the last symbol of the selected fragment.

3. After saving a talk, you will see it to the right side of your page contents.


Talk icons contain figures that indicate the total number of comments in Talk discussions.


The Talk settings button that is located on the top on a Confluence page shows the number of Talk discussions on a page.

If there's no figure, it means that currently there are no Talk discussions on this page.




4. When you want to reply to the talk, select it. The talk is highlighted in yellow. Enter your reply into the text field and click Reply to post it. The Talk icon that you selected also becomes highlighted, so you can easily track which element the talk is mapped to.


When you are having a discussion with someone using Talk, it is being updated in real time. And you can see new comments in this discussion right away.

Inline Comments rin Edit mode

Via Insert menu

  1. Open the page on which you want to start a discussion and switch to Edit mode.

  2. Click where you want to add an inline comment.

  3. Select Talk from the Insert menu, or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+C.

  4. Enter your comment and click Save. You will see the Talk iconnext to the commented part, and your comment will be displayed to the right of the page content.

    Instead of clicking Save, you can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Enter.

    If you want to mention someone, type @ and start typing their name. Choose the person you want to mention from the list of suggestions. That user will become the watcher of this page and will be receiving notifications when new talks are created or new replies are added on this page.

    To insert links to other Confluence pages in a comment, press [ and type a page name or paste a page URL to a comment. Learn more about adding links in comments.

    You can use wiki markup to format the entered text. Please see this page for more info.


  5. Update your page. A timestamped comment is now posted on the page and is visible to other Confluence users who can access this page and have permissions to view the discussion (more about Managing Permissions).

    All users mentioned in a comment will get both a Workbox and an email notification about a new discussion. You will get Workbox and email notifications about new comments posted in the discussion, if the Autowatch option is enabled in your Confluence user profile.


Keyboard shortcuts

You can use keyboard shortcuts in the editor:

Via autocomplete

You can use autocomplete to add Talk inline comments in Edit mode.

  1. Click where you want to add a comment, type {talk and select Talk from the list of suggestions.

  2. In the opened Insert Talk Macro dialog window, enter your comment in the Comment field. You also can see how your Talk will look on the page. Click the Preview button after entering text.

  3. Click Insert.

    Instead of clicking Insert, you can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Enter.


  4. Save your page.

Via button in the editor toolbar 

This option is disabled by default. To enable it:

  1. Go to Confluence Administration> Manage apps and locate Talk - Inline Comments for Confluence.
  2. Expand the list of the app's modules.
  3. Enable Talk Editor Insert Button module.

  1. Once this option is enabled, open the page on which you want to start a discussion and switch to the Edit mode.

  2. Click where you want to add an inline comment.

  3. Click  in the editor toolbar.

  4. Enter your comment and click Save.

  5. Update the page.

Toggling Sidebar 

Talk - Inline Comments for Confluence allow you to collapse or expand the sidebar with added talks. This is convenient when you need to hide all excess elements from the page and view the clean page.

You can collapse or expand the sidebar with talks in three ways:

  1. Click the button ( or ) located to the right side of your talk discussions.
  2. Deselect or select the Show comment sidebar option.
  3. Press the hotkey ] (square bracket).


Additionally, you can click the appropriate talk on the page and the sidebar will automatically expand if it was collapsed.

Toggling Sidebar 

Talk - Inline Comments for Confluence allow you to collapse or expand the sidebar with added talks. This is convenient when you need to hide all excess elements from the page and view the clean page.

You can collapse or expand the sidebar with talks in three ways:

  1. Click the button ( or ) located to the right side of your talk discussions.
  2. Deselect or select the Show comment sidebar option.
  3. Press the hotkey ] (square bracket).


Additionally, you can click the appropriate talk on the page and the sidebar will automatically expand if it was collapsed.