Can I embed the expand macro inside a Confluence table?

[Camélia Viallet]

I did it and it worked fine in Preview mode, but when I published my page, the expand macro did not work. I click on it and the cell does not expand.

It works properly outside of the table. 

It works fine for the first 3 seconds before the left-side menu is loaded. Then it does not anymore.

What to do? 

Thank you!

[Deleted user]

I was able to add an expander macro into a cell within a table in Confluence Cloud and it didn't move etc. 

[sknowles]

Bummer, could really use the expand macro inside cells in a table. 

[Miranda Rawson]

Hi Camélia,

Yes, you can add an expand macro inside a table cell.  If you're having issues with this, it may be related to how you're adding it.  We've seen issues when the expand macro is copy-pasted from view mode.  Are you having this issue when adding a fresh expand macro and not copying and pasting?  

[Camélia Viallet]

Hi Miranda,

Thanks for your answer. Yes I'm having the same issue with freshly added expand macros.

It does seem to work in the very first seconds after I reloaded the page, but it doesn't anymore after 2-3 seconds...

Thank you

[Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_]

Hi Camélia,

Do you inset Expand macro into the header row of a table? If so, there is an issue with table sorter.

[Camélia Viallet]

No, it is in a regular cell, not in the header row. 

Thank you for your answer!

[Miranda Rawson]

Hi Camélia,

Your comment about it not working after the left side bar loads made me wonder if you have a third-party add-on which is interfering with the expand macro.  So I'd ask you to try the following: 

• Run Confluence in Safe Mode
• Try in another browser

In both cases test to see if the expand macro works again.

Let me know how it goes!

[Jonathan Phipps]

Also observing this issue since the latest UI updates..

Unable to test safe mode or another browser due to restrictions.

[dostrander-aptos-com]

Also observing this issue recently only, possibly since the latest UI updates.

Firefox, Chrome, IE all yield the same results. 

[Rodrigo]

Hi @Miranda RawsonI am having the same issue with an Expand into a regular cell created from a fresh macro. and copied the Expand content from a notepad (simple text)

I am using Chrome Version 56.0.2924.87 (64-bit)

[Deleted user]

The latest version of Confluence with different tables does not support adding the macro to a row. It drops it to the bottom, outside, of the table.

[Jennifer Tupaea]

I have found the same issue. 

[Vani Narayana]

I have the same issue. Works on the page. Does not work when added inside a table cell. Please help.

[thiago]

If you ever bumped into this, this happens because of how an expand is created. When you create an expand, its type is "expand", but when you create inside a table the expand type is "nestedExpand", probably due to some CSS styling issues. To be able to overcome that, you can create a new empty macro inside de table cell and paste the content from the old expand to the new expand. This will solve 80% of the cases.

Ugh, it seems other people already come up with this solution, though. :P

Other corner cases like having a table cell with and expand that has a table inside itself, that wouldn't work (or at least I was not able to come up with an acceptable solution)

[Zoriana Bogutska_Kolekti-Adaptavist_]

Hi there,

Now there is a solution for expanding inside table cells, but not as a built-in feature but as a third-party app from the Atlassian marketplace - Content Formatting Macros for Confluence. It has an advanced expand macro that can be added inside table cells and tabs. 

It was developed by my team, so let me know if you have any questions.