Expando for Confluence

The Expando macro makes headings clickable, and expands or collapses the content that belongs to that heading, and it expands content based on a macro parameter or on the linked HTML anchor.

Another Expand Macro?

Our tech writers want to make use of Progressive Disclosure in our docs to help readers focus on the relevant content. They weren't 100% happy with the standard Expand Macro that is shipped with Confluence, because they want to use headings to structure Confluence pages and collapse content without adding additional structural elements. Also, for FAQs and Glossaries they need to link and expand single entries (using HTML anchors).

An Example Glossary

The following page is an example from a glossary for a product:

As you can see the content is all displayed and there is a lot of potentially distracting content. Let's change this by adding some Expando Macros.

To do this, add an Expando Macro to all headings that you want to operate as expandable/collapsible content sections. 

Following this, once the page is published, the sections below all headings are now collapsed:

You can then easily expand the page content that you require:

Get Started

Go ahead and try the Expando Macro. It's free and available on the Atlassian Marketplace - let us know what you think of the macro!