nav[aria-label="Primary Navigation"] { padding: 0; & ul { list-style: none; width: 100%; display: flex; flex-direction: row; justify-content: start; align-items: start; gap: 30px; padding: 0; & li { margin: 0; } & ul li { list-style: none; } } }

How do you Hide children of a page?

Dan Moran

I see that there are two views for Viewing Children - Show and Hide - that can be configured globally by a site admin.

But WHERE are they configured? HOW is this done?

We use the Documentation theme, and have tried temporarily switching to the Default theme so that we could edit the site's Page Layout and changing #renderChildren() to ##renderChildren(), but that didn't work.

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Dan Moran

Hi Joseph,

Thanks for the tip - I didn't realize (as a brand new user) that I could apply that HTML code to a Space. In fact, I'm able to do so even without Enabling Custom Stylesheets for Spaces. Perhaps it's my privilege level?

In any event, I seem to have a "syntax" problem. When I enter the HTML code (see above) in a Space Stylesheet, the Labels: field on all pages in the Space is hidden, but the Child Pages still display. However, if I place the #labels line before the #children line in this HTML code, the Child Pages are hidden and the Labels: field displays!

Also, if I remove either the #children line or the #labels line from the HTML code, both the Child Pages and the Labels: field display on all pages.

I'm THAT CLOSE to getting this to work - any suggestions?

Thanks,

Daniel

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Danielle Zhu1

#renderChildren() is the right place. Make sure you do not have space level theme, layout or style that overwrites the global theme and the custom layout. e.g. In Space Admin Theme, you need to use Global Look and Feel, instead of selecting the Documentation theme.

Dan Moran

Hi Danielle,

Page 310 of the Confluence 3.5 user guide has a screenshot where a site administrator can select to hide hildren globally. This is the screen I'd like to get to - but how do I get there? Is this screen no longer part of Confluence?

(I'd also like to hide the Labels: field that displays above the list of Child Pages.)

Thanks,

Daniel

Danielle Zhu1

I saw the screenshot you are referring to but that looks like a wiki page with children, not a global setting. As far as I know, there is no site wide setting to select whether to show or hide children by default. Here is an open request for "Option for hiding children by default": https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-6892

Dan Moran

Hi Danielle,

OK, thanks for the link - maybe the hide children option will be available some day.

Meanwhile, I can go to each Parent Page and enter the following HTML code to hide the Child Pages and the Labels field:

{html}

<style>

#children-section { display: none; }

#labels-section {display: none; }

</style>

{html}

(I actually read about using this code only to hide the Child Pages and guessed that I could add a similar line to hide the Labels: field, and it worked!)

I appreciate your quick replies to my questions.

Daniel

Dan Moran

Hi Joseph,

Also, if I remove either the #children line or the #labels line from the HTML code, both the Child Pages and the Labels: field display on all pages.

I'm THAT CLOSE to getting this to work - any suggestions?

Thanks,

Daniel

Paul Paul10

Put it in a user macro, add macro to the page you want to see this action. Globally, just add to custom HTML in admin ( I would opt to use body).

David at David Simpson Apps

This is a very similar to the technique I used in More flexible commenting in Atlassian’s Confluence.