Add white background to a table

[Rasmus Sundin]

Hello Community!

Is there any possibility to change a table background to white in Confluence?

The color-chosing-element have certain options and standard-colors, but none of which is white. Can I add my own colors or fix in white in some way?

Thanks!

[Clara Vega _Simpleasyty_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @Rasmus Sundin,

Thanks for raising this. In Confluence Cloud, the native table editor lets you apply background colors from the built-in palette, but it does not give you full custom color control from the standard table UI. Confluence Cloud also does not support direct theme/CSS customization in the same way as Server/Data Center, so there isn’t really a native way to force a table to stay pure white across the page.

A few practical options:
• Use the default table styling if “no fill” is close enough for your use case.
• Use the lightest available built-in background color from the palette.
• If you need stricter visual control, check whether a Marketplace app for advanced table styling would fit your use case.

If the goal is not strictly “pure white”, but rather a cleaner and easier-to-read table, Simple Table could also be worth a look. It can wrap native Confluence tables and add display improvements like layout/spacing presets, search, grouping, exports, and other table controls. That said, I haven’t seen documented support for setting a custom pure-white background there either, so I’d position it more as a table UX improvement than a direct white-background fix.

If this is important for your team, it may also be worth raising or voting for a Cloud styling-related feature request in Atlassian’s public tracker.

Hope this helps!

[Sandro Leone - EPS · Accepted solution]

Hi @Rasmus Sundin 

Out of the box Confluence only supports the colors available in the color palette. Unfortunately I haven't seen a way to get a true white (that does stay white in dark mode for example).

What you could try, if it is important to you, is check out one of the various marketplace apps. I saw this one support CSS styling: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/197/advanced-tables-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview

[Rasmus Sundin]

Thank you, I will look into that!

[Anna Mitina _Stiltsoft_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @Rasmus Sundin

I'm late to the party, and all the recommendations regarding native Confluence functionality have already been shared. 😅

As everyone mentioned, Confluence only allows picking colors from its built-in palette. For any custom solutions, you would need a marketplace app.

Our app, called Table Filter, Charts & Spreadsheets for Confluence, allows you to make any type of customization to your tables. You could literally pick any color you want. On top of that, you can use spreadsheets, create charts, and pivot tables and use many other features of our app.

Let me know if you have any questions on how our app can solve your use case, I'll be happy to help :)

[Rachit Singhal · Accepted solution]

Hi @Rasmus Sundin ,

The fastest way to get out of box feature is using additional marketplace plugin, if available.

If you need any feature addition in Confluence, you can raise support ticket with Atlassian and ask the support person to raise the new feature request. However, these things will take lot of time and depend upon how many users interested in that feature.

You can also check if you are getting an option to directly raise it here -https://jira.atlassian.com/secure/BrowseProjects.jspa?selectedCategory=all&selectedProjectType=software&contains=conf&sortColumn=name&sortOrder=ascending&s=view_projects  under CONFCLOUD project.

[Rasmus Sundin]

Thanks! I will search and see what I will find. I find it a bit odd that Confluence don't support white backgrounds already, but maybe a support ticket will make it happen :)