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Rows shifting to new columns whenever someone enters the draft?

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September 9, 2024

Good morning, I'm encountering a strange problem. I've been working on a large table for my company's confluence page, and every time another user enters the draft a bunch of cells jump to the right. This additionally ruins the width of all the cells, compressing them. Has anyone else ever experienced this glitch, and if so do you know how to prevent it from happening further?

For a visual, here is what the Table is supposed to look like and what happens to it after someone enters the draft (Note that I have recreated the visual in Word, as I ran into problems trying to recreate the table in this question form)

Confluence Table Glitch.png

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December 10, 2025

This usually happens when multiple users are editing a page at the same time and the table’s underlying HTML is being reflowed differently on each client. In Confluence Data Center, collaborative editing merges concurrent changes through synchronization of page drafts, but large or complex tables often trigger layout shifts when browsers interpret column widths differently. You’ll see this especially if cells have mixed formatting (merged cells, images, or pasted content from Word or Excel). Confluence’s editor then realigns columns when another user’s draft syncs, which looks like cells “jumping” to the right.

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