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A screenshot of the Bitbucket WYSIWYG Editor with a strike line across it.

Disable Bitbucket WYSIWYG Editor

Last updated on May 7, 2019 by Sal Ferrarello

I spend a lot of my time communicating in Bitbucket (and in GitHub): creating issues, responding to issues, opening pull requests. Through all of this, I’ve come to love markdown – I even write all my blog posts in markdown.

Unfortunately, I’ve noticed Bitbucket changed their editing experience when creating pull requests to use a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor instead of my beloved markdown comment area. Today, I found the comment area in the issues section had also been turned into a WYSIWYG area.

The cartoon character Popeye saying, "That's all I can stands, I can't stands no more!"

Reverting to the Old Editor

Fortunately, this new WYSIWYG Editor (a.k.a. the Atlassian Editor) can be disabled.

Go to Bitbucket Labs

By clicking my picture in the lower left corner of the screen, I got a menu where I could click Bitbucket Labs.

Screenshot of the Menu with the Bitbucket Labs menu item.

Find the Atlassian Editor

The green checkmark indicates it is active.

Screenshot of the Atlassian Editor feature in Labs.

Turn the Atlassian Editor Off

Toggle the green checkmark to disable this feature.

Screenshot of the Atlassian Editor set to Disabled.

Note: You may also be asked for your feedback when you disable the feature.

Sal Ferrarello
Sal Ferrarello (@salcode)
Sal is a PHP developer with a focus on the WordPress platform. He is a conference speaker with a background including Piano Player, Radio DJ, Magician/Juggler, Beach Photographer, and High School Math Teacher. Sal can be found professionally at WebDevStudios, where he works as a senior backend engineer.

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  1. André Matulionis says

    November 25, 2019 at 4:32 pm

    For those who disabled the atlassian editor and were still seeing it, it may be because the “new pull request experience” is using the atlassian editor as default.

    To disable it entirely, you’ll need to disable the new pull request experience also, this can be done in the same page “Bitbucket labs”

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