Hyperlinks within an Expand

[Wayne Jolly]

Within Confluence, we have utilised the Expand function to drop down to further information. There can be expands within expands.

The issue we have is that if we have an anchor within any of the expands, and someone clicks on the link, it just takes you to the top level. The User still has no idea where the link is supposed to go to.

Any way around this?

[Kinga_Getint · Accepted solution]

Hey @Wayne Jolly 

For sure, you’re not missing anything - that’s actually a current limitation in Confluence.

Anchors inside Expand macros aren’t recognized properly when the page loads, so clicking a link to one of them only scrolls to the top (without expanding the section). And unfortunately, there’s no native fix right now.

A few possible workarounds that teams use though:

• Avoid nested expands where possible — keep anchors in the top-level section.
• Use headings or panels instead of expands if the goal is structure or readability, since anchor links work fine there.
• Add a short “jump-to” note at the top (“If you can’t see the section, expand the ‘Details’ block below”).

At the moment, I guess those are only options to manage this issue ad hoc. Hope it could help somehow.

[Wayne Jolly]

Thanks for the clarification. I have adopted the Headers method. And it does make the page much more complicated that it needed to be .... but better than the links not working correctly.

 Much appreciated.