How to create a button to open another page?
Asked by Robert Levine:

I'm creating a Knowledge Base in Confluence, and would like my "Home" page to have a few headings and then each heading would have a button beneath it that, when clicked, would open another page that would have a table of contents and links to other help files.

I've done the basic page layout, but I cannot seem to create the actual "button" that would drive the user to the relevant page.

Can someone explain how to create a simple button?


Answers:
author: Patricia Modispacher _appanvil_
body: Hi [@Robert Levine](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3195180). ?? Your question was a while ago, but basically the problem hasn't changed, so I wanted to answer it:

While Confluence doesn't have a built-in button creation option, there's a fantastic third-party macro suite called **[Aura Content Formatting Macros](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1221974?utm_campaign=community_question_confluence_button_4_24&utm_source=atlassian-community&utm_medium=social)** that offers a user-friendly button macro, perfect for your Knowledge Base needs! ?

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author: Lenin Raj
body: Hi [@Robert Levine](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3195180)

Adding a 'button' may not be possible (I looked at the Macros list and couldn't find a Button macro) but you can add a regular 'Link' that users can click to go to another page. Is that an acceptable alternative for you?

comments: author: Robert Levine
body: I know how to create a link, but a button looks more professional. It's certainly doable, since the Atlassian Help site has buttons :)


author: Julian Governale
body: It is frustrating that the only button feature is for creating pages from templates. What I did to get a similar feeling as a button was the following. *This is not a button so not a perfect solution for you and it only works if your links are to pages in confluence.*

1. Edit the page
2. Add a layout selection (I chose the 2 section layout) *Select the 3 section layout for smaller card display*
3. Add a 1x1 table (no heading) into one of layout sections
4. Add a background color to table cell
5. Add the confluence page Link to the table cell
6. Edit the link to display as a card

It fills the table and shows the page link as a card instead of a link with a color background that looks more like a boarder.

![PageLink-CardDisplay-inTable.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/116461i74542E22631A7C6B/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "PageLink-CardDisplay-inTable.jpg")

comments: author: Sylvain Rioux
body: That was helpful thanks Julian , I now use this to create a false button to switch between French \& English language in my documentation pages !


author: Thomas ?hrbom
body: I can think of a couple of ways to do something similar to this:

1. Use the *Children Display* macro on your main page. You can set this up to display the titles (and excerpts) from sub-pages in various ways.
2. Use the *Expand* macro to expand show contents from subpages using *Include Page* macro inside each *Expand* macro, or simply have page links to the sub-pages inside the *Expand* macros.


author: englund.david
body: Here's a nice button making tool at "Da Button Factory" ++[Button Generator](https://www.clickminded.com/button-generator/)++ tool. I've used it to make a number of buttons on our site. Enjoy! :)

![Butons.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/242005i63FC52BE8BB66310/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Butons.jpg")


author: S?lr?n ?sta Bj?rnsd?ttir
body: If you want a custom button I recommend you create the button and save the button as a image. Then adding a link to that image to redirect you to a new location using the add link option.

Have not found another way to do this without a add-on.

![Screenshot 2022-08-15 143603.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/211100iF7B475F0C4CBCB49/image-dimensions/328x181?v=v2 "Screenshot 2022-08-15 143603.png")


author: Nicholas Wade
body: Don't want to sound dumb (I'm just starting with Confluence) but surely, you could just use PowerPoint or similar to create buttons and insert links accordingly?


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