Confluence page properties report showing first row as buttons

[Pascal Stephan]

Hello all,

with our Confluence Data Center instance we are on Version 8.5.1 but now have the problem that our page properties reports don't show the way i they should.

The first row of our page properties reports get renderd as butons but we can't figure out why. There aren't any special settings we did just a plain page property report. For example:

Thanks for your help to fix this.

[paulkhillier]

This is still an issue in 2025. At appears that both the actual header row in Page Properties Report Macros, as well as the first row of Page Properties returned, are considered <thead> and for some reason <button class="headerButton"> is applied to each cell in the first row of the Page Properties Report. For our specific Space, I solved this by adding the following to our Space Stylesheet:

 /* Remove button styles from first row of Page Properties macros, fix alignment */

button.headerButton {

   all: unset;

 }

Why the <button> is added to these in the first place doesn't make sense, hoping that the Atlassian team is at least aware of this and are working on a fix. Still on Data Center 8.5.4 but if this is fixed I'll communicate to the powers that be to make us more current :-) 

[Tom Liebmann]

We also had this issue on Confluence 8.5.4.

It seems like the problem only happens for tables that are embedded in certain macros. The most reliable way to reproduce this for us was to embed a table in an "Expand" or "Tab-Panel" macro.

I then have to refresh the page a couple of times until the error eventually appears.

Is there a bug ticket for this issue?

[Markus Kokott]

We have the same problem in data center 8.5.3.

The first row is rendered as buttons, if you have table filter and charts installed and your table (doesn't matter what kind - normal table or a report) is wrapped by some macro, e.g. the expand macro.

If you click the buttons, the column is sorted. I think, it's a bug in the table filter app.

[Sergio Marcos Sendino]

Yep, exactly same for us.

I wrote for us it was with UI tabs macro but it also happens when wrapped by any other macro.

Tried to deal with it but I wasn't able to find any workaround.

[Markus Kokott]

I found a workaround.

If I wrap my table in a table filter, it renderes correctly.

[Marius Imholz]

That doesn't work for me. What settings did you use in the filter?

[Markus Kokott]

I use the default settings. I just put the table filter macro to my page and moved my table into the macro body.

[Sergio Marcos Sendino]

Same happens for me, since updated to Confluence Server v8.5.1

For me it happens within tables inside any "UI Tabs" macro

[Craig Nodwell]

Hi @Pascal Stephan quick question, what are the values in the columns you are pulling from the page into the report?

[Pascal Stephan]

Hello Craig,

just internal information. For example in the Project phase column the value is Workshops.

The values should not be the problem because this problem happens for every Page property report with the first row also if there are completely other columns.

If I watch the page's html code with the browsers development console the first rows cells also get rendered as button tags with html class "header-button". 

For me this only appear in Google Chrome as i found out. For my colleague the problem ocurs in Chrome and Edge

[Craig Nodwell]

There's a source editor add-on that's free.  Confluence Source Editor if you can install this it will give you the ability to view the code behind the page.  That might give you a better indication of what's going on here.

[Pascal Stephan]

Hello Craig,

the Confluence Source Editor only shows me following part for the page property report: 

<ac:structured-macro ac:macro-id="f6fcb9e8-5d52-4b0d-b4c7-09d31a62c2ae" ac:name="detailssummary" ac:schema-version="2">
<ac:parameter ac:name="headings">Last Updated, Project Name, Project Manager , Systems Engineer, Commercial Lead, Project Phase, Order Date, Next Acceptance, Overall Status</ac:parameter>
<ac:parameter ac:name="pageSize">100</ac:parameter>
<ac:parameter ac:name="cql">label = "psp_status" and space = currentSpace()</ac:parameter>
</ac:structured-macro>

It does not show me the rendered page property report code that i see on my page