Does the search look at the content of tables?

Question

I often use the confluence search to find pages that need updating when something changes but I noticed today that some pages I would expect to find the word I was searching for were not included in the search results. When I looked at the pages I noted that the word was contained in a table.

Does the search ignore tables? If yes, can that be changed?

CharlesH1 · Accepted Answer

Hi Janine,

In all my experience of Confluence (2.8 to 5.0) the contents of tables are included in the full text search.

A quick test on my platform, and I can see that in the search results page it even highlights text matches which are in tables.

What version of Confluence are you running, and what was your word in this case?

Regards,

Charles