Documentation for Confluence 5.4.

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Using the Tip macro, you can highlight a helpful tip on a Confluence page. The macro creates a green-coloured box surrounding your text as shown below.

Tip Macro Example


This text is displayed inside the tip macro.

Using the Tip macro

To add the Tip macro to a page:

  2. Find and select the required macro.








Optional Title


The title of the tip. If specified, it will be displayed in bold next to the icon.

Show Tip Icon


If cleared, the icon will not be displayed.

Code examples


Macro name: tip

Macro body: Accepts rich text.

Storage Format example

Wiki markup example




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  1. Anonymous

    What about Length of tip macro box can that be adjusted? and can the box be centered?

    1. Hi,

      There is no direct way of doing this. However, you can change the stylesheet for the tip macro to achieve what you wanted. In order to do this, add the following to the Dashboard > Administration > Look and Feel >Global Stylesheet:

      Feel free to change the width. Hope this helps.


  2. Anonymous

    Is there anyway to keep the size of the tip box rigid and add a scroll feature?  I would like to display a bunch of information in the tip box but not have it take up most of most of the screen. 



    1. Anonymous

      While not scroll bars, you can include the expand macro in any panel-type macro, including tip.

  3. This macro does not render correctly if embedded inside of another user macro. To re-create the problem simply create a new user macro with no params, "rendered" body, and the following template:

    ## @noparams

    it looks like the rendering engine gets confused by a span tag 

    it converts from:


  4. Anonymous

    hmmmp? ? its hard men. but thanks. linkedintips is a a nice site. you can learn a lot try to visit our site then you see how it works.


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