diff --git a/crates/hir/src/semantics.rs b/crates/hir/src/semantics.rs
index 0d55e4a3e0b..920e18208ee 100644
--- a/crates/hir/src/semantics.rs
+++ b/crates/hir/src/semantics.rs
@@ -117,6 +117,12 @@ impl<'db, DB: HirDatabase> Semantics<'db, DB> {
     pub fn expand(&self, macro_call: &ast::MacroCall) -> Option<SyntaxNode> {
         self.imp.expand(macro_call)
     }
+
+    /// If `item` has an attribute macro attached to it, expands it.
+    pub fn expand_attr_macro(&self, item: &ast::Item) -> Option<SyntaxNode> {
+        self.imp.expand_attr_macro(item)
+    }
+
     pub fn speculative_expand(
         &self,
         actual_macro_call: &ast::MacroCall,
@@ -332,6 +338,16 @@ impl<'db> SemanticsImpl<'db> {
         Some(node)
     }
 
+    fn expand_attr_macro(&self, item: &ast::Item) -> Option<SyntaxNode> {
+        let sa = self.analyze(item.syntax());
+        let src = InFile::new(sa.file_id, item.clone());
+        let macro_call_id = self.with_ctx(|ctx| ctx.item_to_macro_call(src))?;
+        let file_id = macro_call_id.as_file();
+        let node = self.db.parse_or_expand(file_id)?;
+        self.cache(node.clone(), file_id);
+        Some(node)
+    }
+
     fn speculative_expand(
         &self,
         actual_macro_call: &ast::MacroCall,
diff --git a/crates/ide/src/expand_macro.rs b/crates/ide/src/expand_macro.rs
index e0d01fa96ed..3f38e2145ed 100644
--- a/crates/ide/src/expand_macro.rs
+++ b/crates/ide/src/expand_macro.rs
@@ -3,8 +3,7 @@ use std::iter;
 use hir::Semantics;
 use ide_db::RootDatabase;
 use syntax::{
-    algo::find_node_at_offset, ast, ted, AstNode, NodeOrToken, SyntaxKind, SyntaxKind::*,
-    SyntaxNode, WalkEvent, T,
+    ast, match_ast, ted, AstNode, NodeOrToken, SyntaxKind, SyntaxKind::*, SyntaxNode, WalkEvent, T,
 };
 
 use crate::FilePosition;
@@ -28,16 +27,37 @@ pub struct ExpandedMacro {
 pub(crate) fn expand_macro(db: &RootDatabase, position: FilePosition) -> Option<ExpandedMacro> {
     let sema = Semantics::new(db);
     let file = sema.parse(position.file_id);
-    let mac = find_node_at_offset::<ast::MacroCall>(file.syntax(), position.offset)?;
-    let name = mac.path()?.segment()?.name_ref()?;
 
-    let expanded = expand_macro_recur(&sema, &mac)?;
+    let tok = file.syntax().token_at_offset(position.offset).left_biased()?;
+    let mut expanded = None;
+    let mut name = None;
+    for node in tok.ancestors() {
+        match_ast! {
+            match node {
+                ast::MacroCall(mac) => {
+                    name = Some(mac.path()?.segment()?.name_ref()?.to_string());
+                    expanded = expand_macro_recur(&sema, &mac);
+                    break;
+                },
+                ast::Item(item) => {
+                    // FIXME: add the macro name
+                    // FIXME: make this recursive too
+                    name = Some("?".to_string());
+                    expanded = sema.expand_attr_macro(&item);
+                    if expanded.is_some() {
+                        break;
+                    }
+                },
+                _ => {}
+            }
+        }
+    }
 
     // FIXME:
     // macro expansion may lose all white space information
     // But we hope someday we can use ra_fmt for that
-    let expansion = insert_whitespaces(expanded);
-    Some(ExpandedMacro { name: name.to_string(), expansion })
+    let expansion = insert_whitespaces(expanded?);
+    Some(ExpandedMacro { name: name?, expansion })
 }
 
 fn expand_macro_recur(