the latest Confluence update causes table display errors in the old version (old editor)

Question

Dear community,
please help me to bring this information to the support service. Recently there were some changes in Confluence that affect the display of information in tables in the old version of Confluence (old editor).

The indent from the left edge in the very FIRST column of any table has disappeared

Thank you in advance.

Larissa Gutscher_fqz68u · Answer

I have the same issue, but also my table no longer respects the fixed widths I set. It looks perfectly fine when editing but not after publishing. See here: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-Cloud-questions/Responsive-table-with-Legacy-editor-is-now-screen-wide/qaq-p/1787452#U1794267

I'm guessing these two issues are probably connected? I don't want to convert to the new editor because all of my tables were designed with the old editor's font size in mind.

Jessica_j1vjtw · Answer

Hi Alexey,

Thank you so much for the additional details and for bringing it to our attention.

I have tried in edit mode, but for some reason, I have not published it before, so I didn't notice the behavior earlier. My apologies for not seeing that.

With the images, you have shared and after publishing the page and doing some other additional tests, I could confirm the behavior you have shared with us.

In Edit mode, it looks normal, as it did previously, but upon published it no longer has the left indentation as mentioned.
I tried a few workarounds, but none of them worked, except for aligning the text to the center.

I have created the following bug report for our development team awareness:

* Table text on the Legacy editor page no longer have the left indentation on the first column

I have added this post as a reference internally, but feel free to add yourself as a watcher of the bug report page, so you will get all the updates for the same, and also, feel free to share any feedback or comments there as well!

If there is anything else we can help with, let us know!

Kindest Regards,
Jessica

Alexey Safonov · Answer

Hello Jessica,

I've been using Cloud for 10 years. Most of my pages are created in the old version of the editor (now you have the new version and the new page templates look different and the functionality is different).
A few days ago I noticed that the display of all my previously created pages has changed: the display of information in the tables has changed. Now they look like this (left indentation in the very first column of each table has disappeared):

When I edit the page in the editor, I see this (there is indentation):