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)