Simple user macro replacement with Forge

Forge Forge Custom UI and UI kit (beta)
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In the previous company I worked for, they used Confluence Server. There I created a very simple user macro that could wrap a piece of content in div with style float:right.

Now I’m working with Confluence Cloud, so user macros are not an option anymore. Would it be easy to get implement the same behavior with Forge?

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Hi Bert,

Creating a macro in forge is fairly straightforward yes! I’d suggest getting started by trying out this tutorial https://developer.atlassian.com/platform/forge/build-a-hello-world-app-in-confluence/

Just keep in mind once you understand the basics of Forge, you’ll probably need to create an app with a user interface that uses Custom UI, rather than UI Kit so that you have the additional flexibility you’ll need. (Learn more about user interfaces here

I hope this helps!
Cheers,
Mel

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Thanks Mel!
I was hoping for a more complete example that shows how to embed Confluence content in a

. Do you happen to know such an example?

Regards,
Bert

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When you say you want to embed confluence content - what kind of content do you mean? Do you just mean text from a page? or something else?

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I want to create a macro similar to Expand macro: put styling around an arbitrary piece of Confluence content. This will most often be used to create a right-floating table of content.