Html-bobswift macro

Removal notice:

Please note that the URL user and URL user password parameters were removed in 5.8.5 (see Deprecation notice: URL user and URL user password parameters). We recommend using profiles to access external data.

1 Features 2 Other HTML macros 3 Parameters 4 Usage examples 4.1 HTML from a file in the Confluence home/script directory 4.2 HTML from an attachment 4.3 HTML put within {noformat} panel 4.4 HTML from a URL 4.5 Use of CSS inline style sheet 4.6 Use of CSS external style sheet 5 Helpful resources

1 Features 2 Other HTML macros 3 Parameters 4 Usage examples 4.1 HTML from a file in the Confluence home/script directory 4.2 HTML from an attachment 4.3 HTML put within {noformat} panel 4.4 HTML from a URL 4.5 Use of CSS inline style sheet 4.6 Use of CSS external style sheet 5 Helpful resources

To comply with Atlassian requirements, the HTML macro name has changed from HTML to Html-bobswift from version 5.7.0. Any existing occurrences of the HTML macro name are not affected by this change; however, only the Html-bobswift macro name is now available in the macro browser for any new macro additions to the pages.

Features

Render HTML content from within the macro body, attachments, or remote locations using URLs.
Allows malformed HTML to be cleaned so content displays properly with JTidy.
Supports find and replace for adjusting resulting output.
Allows the user to restrict the usage of Javascript in the Html-bobswift macro (based on the configuration of Allow Javascript in the Configuration page). The Confluence page throws a rendering error if this parameter is not enabled, and Javascript is inserted while using the macro.
Supports capabilities for including data similar to other scripting macros.
Supports security restrictions as described in Macro Security for Confluence.

The macro works with valid, downloadable HTML files only.
If you want to specify a URL in the Location of HTML data parameter, make sure that only a raw URL is provided. A raw URL is defined as the part of the URL following the domain information and includes the query string, if present. For example, in the URL string http://www.contoso.com/articles/recent.aspx, the raw URL is /articles/recent.aspx.

Other HTML macros

Confluence comes with two native macros: {html} and {html-include}. These macros are disabled by default in Confluence, since it is a security exposure unless you only have trusted users on your site. The native Confluence HTML macros must be disabled to use the Html-bobswift macro of HTML for Confluence.
HTML Tag - a safer alternative to the standard {html} macro but does not allow for arbitrary HTML to be included.

Parameters

Macro browser label	Default	Description	Macro parameter

Macro browser label	Default	Description	Macro parameter
Format	html	Specify how the output is treated. The options are as follows: html - transformed output is standard HTML. xhtml - transformed output is treated as XHTML and rendered with the Confluence XHTML renderer. wiki - transformed output is treated as wiki markup and rendered with the Confluence wiki renderer.	output
Profile		Enter the profile name to access the files to be rendered. Profiles contain a basic set of parameters used to access a remote location such as the type of URL, user credentials, and so on. Refer to profiles configuration to know more about profiles and see tutorials.	profile
Location of HTML data	macro body	Enter the location that contains the HTML file to be rendered. If a location of data is specified, the included data follows the body data (if any). #filename - Data is read from the file located in Confluence `home/script/filename` directory. Subdirectories can be specified. global page template name - Data is read from a global page template. Special note: How to deal with templates on Confluence 4.3 and later. space:page template name - Data is read from a space template. #http://... - Data is read from the URL specified. May require user name and password as well. ^attachment - Data is read from an attachment to the current page. page^attachment - Data is read from an attachment to the page name provided. space:page^attachment - Data is read from an attachment to the page name provided in the space indicated.	script
Find regex patterns		Enter a comma-separated list of regex patterns to dynamically update the output content. Read more about regular expressions. Example: `(href=)(/display)`	find
Replacement strings		Enter a comma-separated list of positions to search for patterns in the output content. Note that the positions are indexed beginning at "1". If a comma is a part of the search, use single quotes (') around it. Example: `http://www.google.com/$1`	replace
File encoding	system default	Specify the encoding for an external file, if different from the system default handling. Example: `UTF-8`	encoding
Select to use JTidy	false	Enable this option to use JTidy to ensure the HTML is well formed to prevent page display problems.	tidy
Remove conflicting tags	true	Disable this option to surround the HTML with an iframe. By default, this parameter allows the display of HTML content in a Confluence page without an iframe. The html, body, and (optionally) the head tags including their corresponding ending tags are removed so that it displays properly on a Confluence page.	clean
Include head section HTML	false	Enable this option to retain all the other tags from the header section and treat them as regular body content. This is useful for retaining style information in particular. By default, the head tag is always removed. Valid only if Remove conflicting tags is enabled.	head
Omit panel when output is wiki	false	Enable this option to hide the panel around the rendered content. This parameter provides a way of setting the nopanel parameter of the noformat macro. Valid only if Format is set to wiki.	noPanel
Width of iframe	500	Enter the width for the iframe that displays the HTML content. Valid only if Remove conflicting tags is disabled.	width
Height of iframe	500	Enter the height for the iframe that displays the HTML content. Valid only if Remove conflicting tags is disabled.	height
URL user		Enter the user name to be used for URL access to HTML files.	user
URL user password		Enter the user password to be used for URL access to HTML files.	password
Timeout in milliseconds		Enter time in milliseconds to wait until the URL connection times out before getting data. Use this to increase time needed for slow connections. Note that if a zero is given, the connection may wait indefinitely.	timeout

Usage examples

HTML from a file in the Confluence home/script directory

{html:script=#example.html}
{html}

HTML from an attachment

{html:script=^example.html}
{html}

HTML put within {noformat} panel

{html:output=wiki|noPanel=true}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
Aliquam fermentum vestibulum est. Cras rhoncus.
{html}

HTML from a URL

Use of CSS inline style sheet

Use of CSS external style sheet

Make sure that style sheet is available on a server and provide the absolute URL reference to this external style sheet resource.

Helpful resources

How to use URLs in the HTML for Confluence macros
Key concepts to understand how to link and render HTML content from other sources