Enhanced Code Block Documenation

Owned by Matthew Grover
Last updated: Sept 02, 2024
4 min read

Enhanced Code Block for Confluence is a Macro which contains all the features you could ever want from a code macro:

  • Secure - All data and code is stored and processed on Atlassian servers so no additional security risk

  • Syntax highlighting for over 300 languages, including Gherkin

  • One button to copy the code

  • Multiple themes to choose from to suit the page style or use different themes for different languages

  • Line highlighting to shows which bits of code are important

  • Macro can be configured to start collapsed so it does not make the document too long

  • Customizable title for each macro so you can let people know what the code is

  • Focus lines so you by default the Macro only shows a subset of lines but can be expanded

  • Configurable line numbers so you can choose to show them only when they are useful

Enhanced Code Block (Development)

Basic Usage

Edit a page or Create a new page and type /enhance click on the Enhanced Code Block option when it appears.

 

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Click on the Edit pencil icon which appears below the newly inserted macro

 

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Options will appear to the right hand side, write or copy and paste your code into the “Code to display” field and select the language from the Language dropdown. See below for instructions on all options.

 

 

Syntax Highlighting

Over 300 languages are supported, see the Supported Languages section for a full list.

To choose a language, simply click on the Language dropdown and either scroll to find your language or start typing and the list will be filtered so you can then easily select your language.

 

 

Themes

Enhanced Code Block comes with eight themes, simply select one from the dropdown, some examples are shown below

 

 

Default

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Tomorrow Night

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Line Highlighting

You can configure the Code Block to highlight certain lines to make them stand out. These are specified as groups separated by commas, each group can either by a single line number or a start and end range of lines separated by a hyphen -.

e.g. the below code has 1,3-4 set in the Lines to Highlight field

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Auto Collapse

Long pieces of code can make clutter up a page and make it difficult to scroll. If you set Start collapsed with just title showing to Yes then only the title will be shown by default as below but you will still be able to easily open up the code when it is relevant to you by pressing the > button.

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Custom Title

Your code blocks can have custom titles displayed at the top which can be used to give some context to the code and are very useful when the macro uses Auto Collapse.

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Focus Lines

Focus Lines allow you to choose a subset of lines to be visible by default, but also allow viewers to expand to the full code snippet for more context using the + button. This is either a single line number or a range with start and end separated by a hyphen, e.g. 4 or 16-20.

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Configurable Line Numbers

By default, line numbers are shown by you can choose to have them turned off if they are not relevant.

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Supported Languages

  • .gitignore

  • .hgignore

  • .ignore

  • .npmignore

  • .properties

  • 6502 Assembly

  • ABAP

  • ABNF

  • AL

  • ANTLR4

  • APL

  • AQL

  • ARFF

  • ARM Assembly

  • ASP.NET (C#)

  • AWK

  • ActionScript

  • Ada

  • Agda

  • Apache Configuration

  • Apex

  • AppleScript

  • Arduino

  • Arturo

  • AsciiDoc

  • Atmel AVR Assembly

  • Atom

  • AutoHotkey

  • AutoIt

  • AviSynth

  • Avro IDL

  • BASIC

  • BBcode

  • BBj

  • BNF

  • BQN

  • BSL (1C:Enterprise)

  • Bash

  • Batch

  • Bicep

  • Birb

  • Bison

  • Brainfuck

  • BrightScript

  • Bro

  • C

  • C#

  • C++

  • C-like

  • CFScript

  • CIL

  • CMake

  • COBOL

  • CSS

  • CSS Extras

  • CSV

  • CUE

  • ChaiScript

  • Cilk/C

  • Cilk/C++

  • Clojure

  • CoffeeScript

  • ConTeXt

  • Concurnas

  • Content-Security-Policy

  • Cooklang

  • Coq

  • Crystal

  • Cypher

  • D

  • DAX

  • DNS zone file

  • DOT (Graphviz)

  • Dart

  • DataWeave

  • Dhall

  • Diff

  • Django/Jinja2

  • Docker

  • EBNF

  • EJS

  • ERB

  • EditorConfig

  • Eiffel

  • Elixir

  • Elm

  • Embedded Lua templating

  • Erlang

  • Eta

  • Excel Formula

  • F#

  • Factor

  • False

  • Firestore security rules

  • Flow

  • Fortran

  • FreeMarker Template Language

  • G-code

  • GAP (CAS)

  • GAWK

  • GDScript

  • GEDCOM

  • GLSL

  • GN

  • GNU Linker Script

  • GameMaker Language

  • Gherkin

  • Git

  • Go

  • Go module

  • Gradle

  • GraphQL

  • Groovy

  • HCL

  • HLSL

  • HTML

  • HTTP

  • HTTP Public-Key-Pins

  • HTTP Strict-Transport-Security

  • Haml

  • Handlebars

  • Haskell

  • Haxe

  • Hoon

  • ICU Message Format

  • IchigoJam

  • Icon

  • Idris

  • Inform 7

  • Ini

  • Io

  • J

  • JQ

  • JS Extras

  • JS Templates

  • JS stack trace

  • JSDoc

  • JSON

  • JSON5

  • JSONP

  • Java

  • Java stack trace

  • JavaDoc

  • JavaDoc-like

  • JavaScript

  • Jexl

  • Jolie

  • Julia

  • Keepalived Configure

  • Keyman

  • Kotlin

  • Kotlin Script

  • KuMir (КуМир)

  • Kusto

  • LLVM IR

  • LOLCODE

  • LaTeX

  • Latte

  • Less

  • LilyPond

  • Liquid

  • Lisp

  • LiveScript

  • Log file

  • Lua

  • MATLAB

  • MAXScript

  • MEL

  • METAFONT

  • Magma (CAS)

  • Makefile

  • Markdown

  • Markup

  • Markup templating

  • Mata

  • MathML

  • Mathematica

  • Mathematica Notebook

  • Mermaid

  • Mizar

  • MongoDB

  • Monkey

  • MoonScript

  • Mustache

  • N1QL

  • N4JS

  • NASM

  • NEON

  • NSIS

  • Nand To Tetris HDL

  • Naninovel Script

  • Nevod

  • Nim

  • Nix

  • OCaml

  • Object Pascal

  • Objective-C

  • Odin

  • OneScript

  • OpenCL

  • OpenQasm

  • Oz

  • PARI/GP

  • PATROL Scripting Language

  • PC-Axis

  • PHP

  • PHP Extras

  • PHPDoc

  • PL/SQL

  • Parser

  • Pascal

  • Pascaligo

  • PeopleCode

  • Perl

  • PlantUML

  • PowerQuery

  • PowerShell

  • Processing

  • Prolog

  • PromQL

  • Protocol Buffers

  • Pug

  • Puppet

  • Pure

  • PureBasic

  • PureScript

  • Python

  • Q (kdb+ database)

  • Q#

  • QML

  • Qore

  • R

  • RBNF

  • RSS

  • Racket

  • Razor C#

  • ReScript

  • React JSX

  • React TSX

  • Reason

  • Regex

  • Rego

  • Ren'py

  • Rip

  • Roboconf

  • Robot Framework

  • Ruby

  • Rust

  • SAS

  • SML

  • SML/NJ

  • SPARQL

  • SQF: Status Quo Function (Arma 3)

  • SQL

  • SSML

  • SVG

  • Sass (SCSS)

  • Sass (Sass)

  • Scala

  • Scheme

  • Shell

  • Shell

  • Shell session

  • Shortcode

  • Smali

  • Smalltalk

  • Smarty

  • Solidity (Ethereum)

  • Solution file

  • Soy (Closure Template)

  • Splunk SPL

  • Squirrel

  • Stan

  • Stata Ado

  • Structured Text (IEC 61131-3)

  • Stylus

  • SuperCollider

  • Swift

  • Systemd configuration file

  • T4 Text Templates (C#)

  • T4 Text Templates (VB)

  • T4 templating

  • TAP

  • TOML

  • TSConfig

  • Tcl

  • TeX

  • Template Toolkit 2

  • Textile

  • Tremor

  • TriG

  • Turtle

  • Twig

  • TypeScript

  • TypoScript

  • UO Razor Script

  • URI

  • URL

  • UnrealScript

  • V

  • VB.Net

  • VBA

  • VHDL

  • Vala

  • Velocity

  • Verilog

  • Visual Basic

  • WGSL

  • WarpScript

  • Web App Manifest

  • Web IDL

  • WebAssembly

  • Wiki markup

  • Wolfram language

  • Wren

  • XML

  • XML doc (.net)

  • XQuery

  • Xeora

  • XeoraCube

  • Xojo (REALbasic)

  • YAML

  • YANG

  • Zig

  • gettext

  • nginx

  • reST (reStructuredText)

  • trickle

  • troy

  • vim