Search on a page

[Arto Rovie]

This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: Search

Hello! How can I add a search which can search on the current page only? Sorry for my English/

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I think I might be misunderstanding this question.  But I read it as "search current page", and the answer is:

Confluence's search is built for finding pages, not content within a page.  So even if you did this, the result would not be anything more than a link back to the page you were on.

To search the current page for something, try CTRL-F - most browsers will pop a text search for you.

[TomC]

This is exactly what we advise users to do (8000 employees on Confluence) when we have a page where 'find on page' is relevant. We might use the Note (or similar) Macro to help 'pop' that advice to ensure casual visitors to the page see it.

[Ruth Volk]

Do you have a solution for searching text within an unexpanded Expand macro? Ctrl + F won't find it unless it's expanded.

[Deleted user]

Just to make sure: There is no possibility to include a "find on page" Macro so that pressing CTRL+F is not needed anymore but with the same functionality?

[JoAnna Black]

@[deleted] It sure seems that way! Frustrating :(

[rattal@vmware.com]

Hi, 

You can use Macro "Page Tree Search"

Thank you 

Rajesh Attal

[Kelley Rios]

This worked perfectly. Thank you for the suggestion!

[Deleted user]

You can use LiveSarch. 

Restrict to this Space Key: Put your project Key.

Type of content to include in the search: Page

Additional Information:  Page Excerpt

[Shawn Connelly]

It's probably too late for the OP, but if you with to include a search option alternative to CTRL+F (or Command+F on the Mac), add a LIVESEARCH macro to your page. In the options, select, "Restrict to label(s)" and choose a unique label that is specific to the current page (don't forget to add that label to the page). 

I usually break up Confluence pages into sections (with child pages), but use the LIVESEARCH macro to search the current page plus all it's child pages. I'll add a unique label so that the search results are restricted to only the relevant pages.

[JoAnna Black]

Do you know if this works for content contained in the expand macro?

[BenJoaquin Gouverneur]

@JoAnna Black, the `Livesearch` macro does in fact return pages that match full search terms even if they are contained within unexpended `Expand` macros. This isn't too helpful for finding where a term is in a large page but only confirming that it does exist somewhere in the page.

I'm trying to create a glossary/dictionary and plan to have unique child pages for each term and use Livesearch to search those pages.