How to insert TOC section numbers into section headers with PDF export?

Rick Suel

I'm sure everyone has faced this problem, and hopefully it's been solved. When exporting to pdf, confluence automatically creates section numbers in the table of contents. I want those auto generated section numbers to be inserted at the beginning of the actual section titles in the document. Surely this is possible? Any help is greatly appreciated! -Rick

Steffen Heller

This must be defined in the PDF export stylesheet with the help of CSS counters. A quick example would look like this:

body {
counter-reset: levelA;
}
h2:before {
content: counter(levelA) ". ";
counter-increment: levelA;
}
h2 {
counter-reset:levelB;
}
h3:before {
content: counter(levelA) "." counter(levelB) ". ";
counter-increment: levelB;
}