search ONLY WITHIN current PAGE in Confluence (Cloud Version).

[Brendon Parise]

Hi, we are new to Confluence. Will have many documents in the knowledge base, some of which could be as much as 100 - 200 pages long. (meaning if printed would be 200 letter size pages). We would very much like to have a Search box at the top of each document, alongside a page of contents. I have seen discussion here re using Page Tree Search, or Live Search to do this. We want a search box where the user enters a search term and the page scrolls to the first instance of the term WITHIN the current page ONLY, much like a ToC entry jumps to that location in the page. Can't have everything in ToC as it would make it enormous..... I did not see any result for those previous queries. Can anyone help please, is this even possible, seems to us a within the page search is a pretty basic need..... If anyone is available who can help with this then please let me know how I can contact you to matbe even discuss it live....

thanks in advance

[Kristian Klima]

Hi @Brendon Parise and welcome to the community.

I'd suggest using CTRL-F / CMD-F as the easiest option available to anyone with the browser.

Other than that, you can try a Atlassian Marketplace to see if there's an for that. 

Just basic search revealed 'kim search and find' which says "Make the important parts of a page searchable for you". And it's free.

[Barbara Szczesniak]

@Brendon Parise I'm with @Kristian Klima regarding searching using the browser's find feature.

With regard to a ToC at the top of the page, you can limit the heading levels to include (https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-the-table-of-contents-macro/). 

As a Technical Writer for 30+ years, I would say that putting the equivalent of 200 physical pages in 1 Confluence page for someone to scroll through does not provide an optimal user experience. If you can't break it up into parent/child pages, I would recommend using the Expand macro (https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-the-expand-macro/) to make the content easier to navigate. Users can expand the sections they are interested in.

[Kristian Klima]

I agree with @Barbara Szczesniak about the page size... unless :) 

I had a lot of pages (back in the day) with data dictionary elements for a mainframe product that were so big Confluence wouldn't save them (had to use page inclusions).

However, those pages served as a dictionary (literally to list 'data dictionary elements' and using CTRL-F was a part of the experience agreed with the user base.

Maybe you could reconsider 'de-chunking' of the pages.