This page last changed on Aug 19, 2011 by pwatson.

Adding Emoticons

There are two ways to add an emoticon, or smiley, to your Confluence page.

By choosing an emoticon from those available:

  1. Choose Insert > Emoticon when editing, to display the available emoticons.
  2. Click on an emoticon to insert it.

By typing a character combination:
You can insert emoticons by typing commonly-used character combinations. For example, the following code appears as an emoticon when the page is rendered.

;)

This example creates this emoticon: Wink .

The emoticons (and other icons) available in Confluence, and the character combinations that create them, are shown in this table:

Image

Smile

Sad

Tongue

Big Grin

Wink

Thumbs Up

Thumbs Down

Info

Tick

Error

Warning

Plus

Minus

Question Mark

Lightbulb On

Lightbulb Off

Yellow Star

Red Star

Green Star

Blue Star

Yellow Star

Notation

:)

:(

:P

:D

;)

(y)

(n)

(i)

(/)

(x)

(!)

(+)

(-)

(?)

(on)

(off)

(*)

(*r)

(*g)

(*b)

(*y)

Preventing Emoticons from Appearing

To prevent Confluence from turning parts of text into emoticons, 'escape' the character sequence by inserting a '\' character.

For example, this character sequence contains an emoticon:

(-example_here;)

This example appears as: (-example_hereWink.

To 'escape' the emoticon sequence, insert a slash as in the following example:

(-example_here\;)

The characters will then appear exactly as typed.

Related Topics

Displaying Images
How to Disable Emoticons

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