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Displays the children and descendants of the current page.
parameter |
Required |
Default |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|
page |
no |
the current page |
Specify which page to display children for |
depth |
no |
none |
Specify the depth of descendents to display |
style |
no |
none |
One of "h1", "h2" .... "h6" - displays children in a contents view |
excerpt |
no |
false |
Display the child pages' excerpts (if they exist) |
sort |
no |
title |
The 'sort' attribute is an optional attribute that allows you to configure how the children are sorted. Specify 'creation' to sort by content creation date, 'title' to sort alphabetically on title and 'modified' to sort of last modification date. |
reverse |
no |
false |
Use the reverse attribute to optionally reverse the sorting. |
If the page parameter is '/', then the macro will list all the current space's "top level" pages - those without parents. If the page parameter is a space key followed by a
colon (e.g {children:page=DOC:}), then the top level pages of that space will be listed.
Example 1:
{children:all=true}
gives:
Example 2:
A depth of 1 will only display the first generation descendents of the current page. That is it will only display the direct children of the current page.
{children:depth=1}
gives:
Example 3:
A style of "h3" will display the page's direct children as level 3 headings, with their children as lists below the headings. Very useful for quickly generating a contents page
{children:all=true|style=h3}
gives
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