Legacy Tabs

The Tabs macro allows you to add tabs to provide interactive, categorized, or isolated information to the page. A Tabs macro is added for each tab that you want to display. 

Create a new set of tabs

1. Navigate to the page you want to edit.

2. Click the Edit icon.

3. Click Insert > View More in the Confluence editor.

4. Select the Tabs macro in the Select Macro screen. (Alternatively, use / and begin to type tab to access the macro via the quick insert menu.)

   

5. Give your tab a name.

6. (optional)Select an icon to appear at the beginning of your tab. You can choose an icon from four different libraries
   • Atlassian
   • Emojis
   • Font Awesom
   • Material Design
7. (optional) select the text alignment. This affects how any text inside the tab is shown. By default this is set to left align.
8. Ensure that the Is this the first tab?  toggle is turned on.
   

9. (optional)You can add styling to all the tabs that will follow from this first tab

10. Select Save.

11. Add another tab macro for each tab you want to see on the page.

Add a second tab

1. Navigate to the page you want to edit.

2. Click the Edit icon.

3. Click Insert > View More in the Confluence editor.

4. Select the Tabs macro in the Select Macro screen. (Alternatively, use / and begin to type tab to access the macro via the quick insert menu.)

5. Give your tab a name.

6. (optional)Select an icon to appear at the beginning of your tab. You can choose an icon from four different libraries
   • Atlassian
   • Emojis
   • Font Awesom
   • Material Design
7. (optional) select the text alignment. This affects how any text inside the tab is shown. By default this is set to left align.
8. Ensure that the Is this the first tab?  toggle is turned on.
   

9. Select Save.

Style your tabs

Any styling options that you choose for the first tab will automatically be applied to the rest of the tabs in that group. There are currently three main ways you can change the appearance of your tabs.

Change the header style

There are three possible header style options. 

• Basic
  
• Filled
  
• Rounded
  

Change the accent color

You can change the color used in the header to suit your preferences and you can also choose to add a border in the same color. Changing the color palette gives you different color options.

Put a border around your content

You can add a border to your tabs. This can be a good way to let your readers know when they've reached the end of a long tab. Simply select Add border from the toggle. The color of the border will be the same as the accent color.

Make Tab Headings Sticky

If you have a lot of content in your tabs you might want the tab headings to stay visible as you scroll down the content of the tab. You can turn this on in the first tab in the group by selecting the checkbox at the bottom of the editor.

Change the tab direction

There are two options for the tab direction. You switch between the two options use the Tab group direction button. 

Horizontal Arrangement

Vertical Arrangement

Edit the macro

To make changes the macro, for example, to change the title of the tabs, click the macro placeholder then click the Edit icon. Make the required changes, these will save automatically.

To make changes to the order of the tabs, change the order of the macros on the page. Drag and drop the macros to do this.

Edit or Delete an icon on a tab

To edit or delete the icon on a tab you must open the editor for the tab you want to change. Beneath the name of the tab, the icon is shown.

Select the pencil icon to choose a different icon.

Select the trash icon to remove it.

Put Other Macros Inside

It is possible to put other macros inside this one. Some larger or more complex macros may not work, or work differently than expected. 

When trying to figure out which marcos can be put inside others there it helps to identify the type of macro you are working with. There are two general types of macro:-

Rich Body Macros -There are macros that you can type in on the Confluence Edit page

Simple Macros - These are macros that you can not add anything to on the edit page, you can only affect them by opening them in the editor.

See below for more information on what happens when you put various macros inside this macro.

Atlassian Macros

Macro	Works As Normal	Notes
Action Item		You can add the macro, but it doesn't keep it's status while in the tab.
Attachments		This macro displays the attachements on the page. However the drag and drop upload function does not work.
Blog Posts
Bullet List
Code Snippet
Contributors
Contributors Summary
Chart		This type of macro will not fit inside another macro.
Change History
Children Display
Content by Label
Content Report Table
Create From Template
Date
Decision
Decision Report
Emojis
Error Panel
Excerpt		This type of macro will not fit inside another macro.
Excerpt Include
Expand		If you wish to use this macro you can put it in the cell of a table, inside the macro.
Files and Images
Gallery
Iframes
Include Page
Info Panel
Jira Charts
Jira Issues
Jira Legacy
Jira Roadmap		Only displays a link.
Layouts		This type of macro will not fit inside another macro.
Labels List
Link		Links can be added and work, however the smart link options do not work as expected. eg. you can't use Card View, Embed View or Inline View, you can only show the url.
Mention
Note Panel
Numbered List
Opsgenie Incident Timeline
Page Index
Page Properties		This type of macro will not fit inside another macro.
Page Properties Report		This macro works as normal except when the table contains any other macros.
Page Tree
Page Tree Search
Popular Labels
Profile Picture
Related Labels
Recently Updated
Recently Updated Dashboard
Roadmap Planner		The roadmap displays, but the links do not display when you hover over the bars.
Shared Links Bookmark
Spaces List
Status
Success Panel
Table
Table of Contents
Table of Content Zone		This type of macro will not fit inside another macro.
Task Report		If you have enough tasks to result in multiple pages of tasks, you may not be able to scroll through the pages.
Team Calendars
Trello Card
Trello Board		Although the board will display in edit mode, it does not display in view mode.
User Profile
Warning Panel
Widget Connector

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