Adding a Navigation Sidebar

Confluence pages can be set to include a left-hand navigation sidebar (table of contents) as shown below:



You can see an online example on the left of this page, and in other documentation spaces such as the Crowd documentation.

Follow the instructions below to add the navigation sidebar to your Confluence space.

Step 1. Create the TreeNavigation Page

First, you will create a Confluence page containing the pagetree macro. This is just a normal Confluence page. The only slight oddity is that it should reside at the root of your space, instead of under the space's home page.

次の手順に従ってください。

1. Go to the 'Space Pages' view for the current space. To do this:

   • Go to a page in the space, open the 'Browse' menu and select 'Pages'. The 'Space Pages' view will open.
   You are now at the 'root' level of your space. The 'root' level contains pages that are added above the space's home page, not as children of the home page.
2. At the root level of the space, create a page named 'TreeNavigation'.
3. On the page, insert the following text:

   {pagetree}
   

4. Now decide if you want to add extra functionality to your page tree. By default, using the code above, the page tree will use the home page of the space as its root. You can choose to:
   • Specify a different root for your page tree.
   • Add a search box at the top of the tree.
   • Allow the viewers to expand and collapse the whole tree.
   • Control other aspects of the display.
     For more information, read about the Pagetree macro.

Step 2. Change the Page Layout on your Space

Now you will change the page layout on your space, to include the above page on the left of every web page displayed.

1. Go to the 'Space Admin' tab of the Browse Space view. To do this:

   • Go to a page in the space, open the 'Browse' menu and select 'Space Admin'. The 'Space Administration' view will open.
     'Space Admin' is only displayed if you are a space administrator.
   
   
   
2. Make sure the Confluence Default theme is selected from the 'Themes' menu.
   
   
3. Click 'Layout' under the 'Look and Feel' section.
   'Layout' is only displayed if you are a Confluence Site Administrator.
   
   
4. Click 'Create Custom' under the 'Page Layout' section.
   
   
5. In the layout, find this code:

   <div class="wiki-content">
   $body
   </div>
   

6. Replace the above code block with this code:

   #if ($action.isPrintableVersion() == false)
   <style>
   .spacetree * ul{
   padding-left:0px;
   margin-left: 0px;
   }
   .spacetree * li{
   margin-left: 5px;
   padding-left:5px;
   }
   
   </style>
   
   <table cellspacing="2" cellpadding="5">
   <tr>
   <td valign="top" align="left" width="22%" bgcolor="#F9F9F9" class="noprint">
   <div class="tabletitle">Table of Contents</div>
   <div class="spacetree">
   #includePage($helper.spaceKey "TreeNavigation")
   </div>
   </td>
   <td valign="top" align="left" width="78%" class="pagecontent">
   <div class="wiki-content">
   $body
   </div>
   </td>
   </tr>
   </table>
   #else
   <div class="wiki-content">
       $body
   </div>
   #end
   

7. If you want to, you can change the table title in the above code from 'Table of Contents' to something else. For example, it might say 'Confluence Documentation'.
   
   
8. Save the updated layout.

関連トピック

Customising Layouts
Upgrading Custom Layouts
Customising the Left Navigation Theme
Example Confluence Designs