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Cannot edit a table and no editing toolbar visible

Katie Dunn_mgg10j

I cannot edit the table I was working on on Friday of last week. The editing menu for the table is gone. I cannot add rows, cannot fill boxes with color. I also cannot add a new table into the work space.

I have cleared my cache and logged out and back in. I cannot figure out why I have a limited editing ability today.

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Arkadiusz Wroblewski

Hello @Katie Dunn

If that's truly a Data Center, you should report it to your admin. There are actually a couple of possibilities regarding what could be wrong and what might happen.

Best,

Arek🤠

Chris Rogers

Hi @Katie Dunn

Are you unable to edit other elements on the page, or is it just your table you're having problems with?

Do you by chance have your table embedded within another macro (e.g. panel/section/etc). I find that Confluence sometimes does odd things when you start nesting macros.

Are you able to provide a screenshot or a quick video to demonstrate the issue?

Katie Dunn_mgg10j

I am not sure. I did not build this table or this page. This is what the top of the table looks like. as you can see there is no editing toolbar for the table itself. I do not have the plus sign on the side of the table to insert a row as I did before.

I cannot send a video as the information within this table is sensitive.

Screenshot 2026-09-08 104544.png

Katie Dunn_mgg10j

Also, I can type into the existing table but I cannot edit it in any way- ex I cannot make the text bold, change color, indent, etc.

So basically I can type into the existing table but I can make no other edits to the entire page.

Chris Rogers

It's not a direct fix, but one thing you can try is to copy the existing page and see if you can update the table on the copy.

Another option would be to revert the page to a previous version and apply the edits again to see if that corrects things.

Cody_Wolf

So a coworker of mine found this out, if you are using google chrome as your browser, but its not a fully updated recent version, then thats where this bug is introduced.

Once i quit google chrome, and reopened it, and did this twice(close+reopen x2), only then did my google chrome browser present a new tab with a confirmation of "Your Chrome has been updated", and only then did the confluence chalk table editing options reappear when clicking inside the table. You may have to reload your page.

Arkadiusz Wroblewski

That would be a very sneaky ninja bug.

Did you reported it officially?

Cody_Wolf

No this is the first recent post ive seen about it, but many of my coworkers are experiencing it, i doubt its gone unreported officially by now, it started yesterday

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