Can I make a button to show/hide the sidebar?

[Tom Dickson]

Some users don't know about the menu button for hiding the sidebar, so on a specific page I'd like to make a normal HTML button that when clicked toggles the sidebar. Then I can put it in a panel.

[Davin Studer · Accepted solution]

You can certainly do that. All you need to do it edit the page template and put a button somewhere on the page that will fire off some javascript to programatically click the one in your header. Now, from a usability standpoint I think it is a better idea just to educate the users rather than duplicate functionality on the page.

[Davin Studer]

Didn't realize that you want it only an a specific page. Same answer just without editing the template. I would create a user macro to do this. It would look something like this.

## @noparams
<form class="aui">
    <button id="custom-splitter-toggle" class="aui-button">Toggle Sidebar</button>
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">
    AJS.toInit(function(){
        AJS.$('#custom-splitter-toggle').click(function(event){
            AJS.$('#splitter-button').click();
            event.preventDefault();
        });
    });
</script>

[Nic Brough [Adaptavist]]

There's a button on the sidebar to toggle it, next to "space tools". The << and >>

That's in the standard theme though - if you're using a different version of Confluence and/or a different theme, it might not be there, but it might be possible to add it. But we'd need to know what we're working with.

[Tom Dickson]

I'm using the Documentation theme, and there is a button right next to search that does what I want, but since it is unlabled people miss it. I'd like to add a second more obvious button in the page text itself.