At the very least, when searching a page for text, all the Expand items where the text is found should auto-expand. As such Confluence would require a text search option with the context set to the page being searched. Since it is highly unlikely Atlassian will ever address this, we will settle for some way to expand all text. Anyway, hopefully Confluence will do with way of browsers, one day someone will appear on the scene with a new wiki and overnight Confluence will be gone. Good night Atlassian.

looking forward to this

Please make this feature a priority! It would be very useful

Please please please!

still need this please

Hello! Are you working on this issue? It will be very useful to have it in place. thanks!

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Any update on this development?

This would be very useful as currently is there is content behind a collapsed window its hidden from page search results (ctrl + f) so it would be very helpful to be able to expand all sections to allow on-page search to work. 

Hi guys, please implement this feature as using the Table of Contents is useless when dealing with large pages with many expands in it. Even if we need to set each one manually, I'd take that over it doing absolutely nothing. 

I want it........

we had a workaround on server and are really missing this functionality in cloud

The code on the pages has changed since this bug was opened many years ago so the bookmarklet workaround needs updated. This works for me in confluence cloud (replace : with : ), hope this helps anyone else stumbling in here.

javascript:(function()%7Bdocument.querySelectorAll(%22%5Bdata-node-type%3D'expand'%5D%5Bdata-expanded%3D'false'%5D%22).forEach(e%3D%3Ee.querySelector(%22button%22).click())%7D)()

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Upvote. As part of this, I'd like to see the option to expand/collapse all expand on a page at once. Example: I want them all collapsed by default so I only see high-level information if that's all I need when visiting the page. However, if I need to dive further into the details, I'd want to expand all of them at once. This would/should open up the searching ability as others have said.

Ditto what others said. The in ability to search collapsed content is the primary issue. The ability to just expand all/show all/collapse all would also be useful.

Additional config options:

• Heading styles: I would love to option to associate heading styles (h1, h2, h3) with the expand macro title. This would enable the option to include expand/collapse titles in an index or toc. It would also support the ability to link to a specific expand item as you might a heading. 
• Formatting: ability to format the expand item, similar to what you can do with the panel macro would be useful. 

Also adding interest for the expand all option. We're also impacted by the inability to search collapsed content. 

Being able to expand pages nested under other pages in one go without clicking through them is important for us

Not being able to search within all content (whether expanded or not) is a major drawback for my colleagues and I, and if it isn't fixed soon, we may need to find another platform.

...via advanced search or just via the web-page search  - therefore the need for a simple expand/collapse, so we dont need to manually expand all sections on the page. 

Ability to search within collapsed content via advanced search is a key requirement for us to continue using this feature.

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If I can vote 500 times, I will. 

No solution for adding to a page for everyone to use.  But for personal use - I have a bookmark with the following URL:

javascript:(function()%7B%24(%22.expand-control%22).each(function()%7B%20%24(this).trigger(%22click%22)%3B%7D)%7D)()

When I am on a page I want everything expanded on - I select the bookmark. Select again to collapse all.

Is anyone using a workaround for this that actually works? All of the ones I've found in forums do not. Thank you! 

Thank you for the update Divya! Looking forward to the release of this feature. 

We also would need to link from the ToC into a collapsed expand macro. The legacy requirement would be, to keep the expand macro collapsed but links from ToC and somewhere else should be working.

Additionally to searching in a collapsed area would be useful.

I had to come here to figure out why my ToC couldn't link my headings inside of an Expand macro, when they were showing up in the ToC. This should be basic functionality.

Paul Streng solution may work well, but it requires the HTML macro from the market place; no good for us - I'm unable to add marketplace add-on's to our site.  Would prefer a "Confluence" solution

I found this and works nicely.

<a id="toggleAll" href="#">Expand/Collapse All FAQs</a> <script type="text/javascript"> AJS.toInit(function () { AJS.$('#toggleAll').click(function() { jQuery(".expand-control").each(function()

) }); }); </script>

Just add to an HTML macro at top of each page.

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Definitely needed.  

+1 Recently upgraded from Server to Cloud and this is a real PITA for us.

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+1 - showstopper issue for us

+1 This is very much needed.

noticed that the internal confluence page has the expand sections collapsed as default, but same page on the service desk (customer facing portal) has the sections expanded by default... configuration per expand block would be great. i didn't see the refined UI Expand macro available for confluence cloud.

+1. This is a huge request for our teams. And without the ability to search non expanded content, it is a real blocker in their workflow! Is there any update on this, as it looks like it has been a suggestion for a few years with no movement. 

Thanks! 

Please add

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Ability-to-expand-all-dropdowns-within-a-confluence-article/qaq-p/1476782

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@Jonno Katahanas You greatly improved /expand native functionality late last year, but left this out. The feature is incomplete / limited in use until there is an option to toggle show/hide by default. Right now, I only bother using on content that should be hidden by default–otherwise I run the risk of hiding meaningful content!

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UI Expand macro (https://docs.refined.com/display/rwui/UI+Expand) has this functionality but it would be great if the builtin Expand macro were able to do this.

You're killing me here...

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It seems like such a simple thing, and it would be so helpful!

5 years later and no nearer to this being a thing - I think we can count this as "things that will never happen" guys.

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Hi 

Any update on this?

Thank you

Andy

+1 Yes Please why does it take so long?

Yes please.

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Use Case: For onboarding a new person in a role, we have checklists per week. When loading the page, I'd like to have the weeks they've done already open collapsed, and the weeks they haven't done already open uncollapsed. I'd be happy with a manual toggle for show/hide per expand-box. Thanks!

+1 Atlassian, this seems easy to implement. Please add this

+1 - seems like a simple enough fix to implement. Would be extremely useful.

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Amazing people at Atlassian,

Please make this one happen. The macro is not complete without all configuration exposed. I use this quite a bit in my day to day work and kept on researching if there any way to do this and stumbled upon this JIRA.

Confluence is already awesome, please make it more awesome by adding this missing feature.

Wow 102 votes .... must be a contender now its in triple digits.

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A search for a collapsible section ( starts expanded but can be hidden ) lead me here. An option on the existing EXPAND macro for starts expanded would cover this.

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This would be a great enhancement.

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"Text is not searchable from closed expand macros on page load." YES PLEASE THIS FEATURE

Agreed - this would be a nice feature for Confluence users

It would very much enhance the look and feel of some of my pages if I had a checkbox option within macro settings that I could set whether the macro should be open or closed by default.

Even I am looking for this feature. When it will be available?

Please make this happen! This would be extremely beneficial for the reasons already mentioned, notably searchability of content.

It's interesting how this seems like a feature that would have been implemented from the get go.

This is also needed so that links in a table of contents work. (They do not when the target is in an expandable section that is not expanded.)

This would be a really useful feature!

Is the Expand Macro source code available anywhere on https://bitbucket.org/atlassian ? I would think someone in the community could add the code to do this pretty quickly and submit a Pull Request for it.

+1 Voted !