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How to change the background color of a cell?

Edward_de_Leau

In the new layout it beat me how to change the background color of a single cell.

I tried to ask chatgpt but in the different answers there is not answer.

In not a single menu there is the option to change the background color of a single cell.

When clicking the dotted box it selects the complete row.

Accepted answers

Rustem Shiriiazdanov _Actonic_

Hi @Edward_de_Leau ,

the cells menu is buggy in Confluence cloud, actually. I suspect you are affected by the bug:

https://jira.atlassian.com/projects/CONFCLOUD/issues/CONFCLOUD-83655

people say the workaround is:

- Add a second table on the page or

- Double click anywhere outside the table

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Not sure if it help you though (did not help me so far, I had to insert a table into existing page, and change cells settings).

Regards,

Rustem

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Kris Klima _K15t_

Hi @Edward_de_Leau and welcome to the Community.

In the cell, click the arrow, and select background color.

Mohamed Benziane

Hi,

You cna change the color like this :

2026-02-05 10_44_28-Greenshot.png

Sebastian Krzewiński

Hi @Edward_de_Leau

To change cell color please do below steps:

Click on cell
on top right corner you should see menu icon.
Please expand it and change color

Screenshot 2026-02-05 at 10.45.32.png

Regards,

Seba

Rustem Shiriiazdanov _Actonic_

Hi @Edward_de_Leau ,

the cells menu is buggy in Confluence cloud, actually. I suspect you are affected by the bug:

https://jira.atlassian.com/projects/CONFCLOUD/issues/CONFCLOUD-83655

people say the workaround is:

- Add a second table on the page or

- Double click anywhere outside the table

----

Not sure if it help you though (did not help me so far, I had to insert a table into existing page, and change cells settings).

Regards,

Rustem

Kris Klima _K15t_

@Edward_de_Leau

You got 3 identical answers from 3 Champions within 3 minutes

Atlassian Community at its best!

@Sebastian Krzewiński & @Mohamed Benziane

Staffan Redelius

Sorry, I looked away for 10 sec... 😂

Mohamed Benziane

Yeah but you were the first @Kris Klima _K15t_ ! You're too quick for us when it comes to Confluence !

Kris Klima _K15t_

@Mohamed Benziane Thank you!

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Patricia Modispacher (K15t)

Gosh! I had no idea! Thank you so much for pointing that out! 🙌

Edward_de_Leau

A collegae change it and he indeed has this icon.

We went to my laptop and there was NOT this icon. So that explained it. No idea why this icon does not show on my PC but on his PC it does using the same browser.

Edward_de_Leau

A collegae changed it and he indeed has this icon.

We went to my laptop and there was NOT this icon. So that explained it. No idea why this icon does not show on my PC but on his PC it does using the same browser.

Edward_de_Leau

Thanks, I will try it. I did save the page to check if it then would appear but maybe it also continues on a page that is already saved.

The weird thing is the icon does appear on a screen of a collegeau using the same os , same browser but not on my screen. Luckily there are collegeaus to help you out

Rustem Shiriiazdanov _Actonic_

Hi @Edward_de_Leau , you are always welcome!

Bugs in Cloud are really hard to trace sometimes. In our Team this bug also happen to appear mostly to me. Probably there are some conflicts with browser plugins, or some OS settings, or browser version... I am just glad I have a workaround

Regards,

Rustem

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