Formatting for the Expand macro

[Deleted user]

Looking to add some formatting to an expand section for my team to make an expand selection more visible. Instead of a white background with blue font, I was hoping to have a gray background when it is collapsed, similar appearance to the heading row of a table.

Is this possible? Please include a step by step how to if so, thanks!

[Diego · Accepted solution]

Hello @[deleted] !

Currently, there are no formatting options that allow you to achieve the objective that you need. Here is our documentation on the macro:

• [Confluence Cloud] Expand Macro

What you could do to achieve a similar result is to insert the expand inside a table header cell:

In Edit mode:

In view mode

Doing this will render a gray background while the Expand is collapsed. Hope this helps! Looking forward to your reply.

[Deleted user]

Thank you @Diego this works great!

[Diego]

Glad to know that this helped you out!

[Lukáš Balon]

This is the way

[Alis Ward]

I can't help but wonder what it'll be like to try and navigate that with assistive tech... sounds awful.

[K Langford]

You might also consider UI Expand Macro, part of the Refined Theme for Confluence.  It includes a suite of enhance macros that provide a bit more flexibility.  Interestingly the default for their expand macro happens to be with a gray background as you described.

[Cory Beck]

Where is the UI Expand Macro found? I am running Confluence Data Center 7.4.1