Add a background color to one cell

[NathanG]

How do I add a background color to one cell in my confluence table?

I'm on confluence 5.3 and I can't find any coloring options with the default editor.

Thanks~!

[Davin Studer · Accepted solution]

There is a button in the editor bar for this.

[Sean Merrigan]

What if we want colors than those five pastels?

[Jacob Boyko]

Yes, more colors would be useful - and not a very difficult feature to implement I should think!

[s deshpande]

It will be great if we can add more colors.

[mikemusskopf]

That would be better if they changed the icon as well... this looks more like a "merge" than a color icon!

[guangyue hu]

maybe also change the location, say near the text option.

[Stephen Kairys]

Yeah, I'd love to have dark gray or even black. I need it to clearly indicate that this cell does not apply to this column.

Anyone know if there's an outstanding Feature request for this item?

Thanks!

[Deleted user]

You can vote the following issue in order to ask to add more colors:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27618 

[Soren Nielsen]

David Studer, would be great with a button in the editor bar, but can you tell what it look like - because I do not see it..

[Davin Studer]

When you have your cursor in a table cell you should see the table toolbar appear below the regular toolbar. It's the last button.

[Jiří Altman]

Well … that button is really useless... Whole editor is one big pain my a** - in case that we have a lot markdown languages why Atlassian reinventing wheel? Stupid step... 👎

[Johannes Schneider]

are there restrictions for formatting in next-gen projects? cannot find this two lines with all the icons for formatting.

[Jonathan Smith]

You can always attempt to modify the table's background or cell color in the HTML in the source editor <>. 

• Table Example: <table bgcolor="red">
• Cell Example: <td bgcolor="blue">
• Use "#hexcolors" instead of "blue" for best results.

Environment Server 6.6.1

[Davin Studer]

I belive if you have an older version this will not work. The code editor used to strip out anything that you put on tables, such as width or color. Looks like it works with newer version though ... yay!!

[Min Lu]

Can I do it with a Confluence CLI one-liner?

[Jonathan Smith]

Have not tried.

[Susan Ostreicher]

Thanks for this, Jonathan! And for anyone like me who's new to this, it looks like there's a free app that will let you edit the source:

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1210722/confluence-source-editor

[Shaurya Chawla]

Jonathan Smith I tried the same way to set the color of a cell 

<td bgcolor="blue"> but when post the table data to confluence through RESTful api it results in 400 error with :

Error parsing xhtml:

Unexpected character '>'  expected '='\n at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [1,489]"}

Any help?

[Jonathan Smith]

@Shaurya Chawla,

  You can try a "#hex color" instead of "blue". If that does not work, I am sadly out of ideas.

Note: This still works on Confluence Server 6.6.1. Not sure if this works on Cloud.

- Jon

[Shaurya Chawla]

ThanksJonathan Smith actually I tested below in an online html editor and it works and does change the color for text . The issue is with the confluence table storage format which accepts xhtml based(https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf612/confluence-storage-format-958777608.html#ConfluenceStorageFormat-Texteffects); hence the cause of error.

"<td> <span style = color:red>" + variableData + "</span></td>"

[Steffen Heller]

I do all my Confluence code formatting with Firefox Developer Tool.

If I needed a table cell with background colour, I would highlight that cell, open it in the Developer Tool panel and then change

<td class="confluenceTd">some text</td>

to

<td class="confluenceTd" style="background: red;">some text</td>

[rahul bhide]

Thanks for the link @Steffen, I wasnt able to change the background color of the cell, however cell text color did change with this:

<TD><span style="color: rgb(255,0,0);">red text
</span></TD>

<TD><b><span style="color: rgb(255,0,0);">red text
</span><>/b</TD> for bold

@ 

[Axel Meikies]

Here are three macros for setting the background colour for a table cell, table row or the whole table.

I tried the table_cell template in a User-Macro and it still works in Conf. 6.15.

You can use HTML colour or a HTML numeric #value.

The template is in Stackoverflow from Zac Thompson.

You need admin rights to create a user macro.

[Jonathan Smith]

Yup. Source editor works for the most part in 5.9.10. Welcome to 1998 HTML.