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Floating/Sticky Table of Contents - DataCenter

Skye DeStefano
December 8, 2025

I am trying to make a floating/sticky Table of Contents in DataCenter (8.9.8 specifically if that matters), where the TOC remains visible while scrolling the page. I don't necessarily care if it's at the top or the side, just looking to replicate something like Word's "Navigation Pane". I'm writing technical documents that, in Word, would be tens to hundreds of pages long, so having the ability to jump throughout the document easily is highly sought after. I've seen a couple solutions using CSS but they've all been for the Cloud version instead of DataCenter and don't really work for me. I also don't really understand CSS and divs and all that so I could also just not be doing it right. I'd like to avoid installing anything from Marketplace if at all possible. If the only solution is using CSS, can someone please explain the entire process to me like I'm in kindergarten. Thank you!!

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Tinker Fadoua
Community Champion
December 8, 2025

Good Day,

I know exactly what you are trying to achieve. In fact my hope was always to have the ability to freeze a panel so I can see the top of the page unfortunately Confluence out of the box doesn't provide such feature.

Maybe a Marketplace Vendor App.

All the best,

Fadoua

Skye DeStefano
December 8, 2025

Unfortunately the computer I am using DataCenter on does not have the ability to access the Marketplace due to internet restrictions, hence why I stated avoiding installing anything from Marketplace if at all possible. I've seen some workarounds using CSS so am hoping someone may have some tips for using that with DataCenter.

Skye DeStefano
December 8, 2025

I did try making the entire page a table and adding the TOC to the header row with that frozen and that kind of works, however there are formatting things that can break the frozen header sometimes, plus then the entire page is a table which is kind of annoying

https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Confluence-questions/Do-you-know-how-to-freeze-the-headers-when-we-scroll-through-a/qaa-p/125263#M20922 

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