How can I add a background color to row in table?

[Anne-Marie Colendich]

I don't see this setting on my confluence page to add background color to a row in table???

[Walter Buggenhout]

Hi @Anne-Marie Colendich,

Just highlight the row by clicking the narrow grey placeholder at the left side of that row. It will highlight the entire row.

Then, you will see a tiny arrow appear when you hover over any cell in that row.

Clicking the arrow will pop up a menu where you can select background color:

 

[eric_buerger]

I've performed this action, but for some reason the option change Cell Background still isn't showing. I do see the options for Insert/Remove etc. Any other thoughts for why this might be? The tables that have colors I need to change, are being copy/pasted from word and already contain a color -- However, I need to change the color it pastes in.

[Anabell Chiu-Carag]

This feature disappeared.  Is there a switch that will turn this on?

[Ilya Spevak]

Just found it as described

[eric_buerger]

Yea. I’m wondering if this is a software version specific feature, one that may be disabled under certain cases of copy/pasting text, or as someone else has suggested, perhaps there’s a switch which administrators have turned off.  It was definitely not there for me despite looking in many locations beyond the one suggested. 

[Ilya Spevak]

It seems, this feature is only available in Confluence. There is no "Cell background" option in Jira. So you might be editing the table in Jira?

[EtienneSevin]

I would have sworn I saw this feature (I still have coloured cells) but I can't see it anymore :-/

[Steve Myers]

I just ran into this.  It's a bug.  

What I describe here is all in Jira, not Confluence.

The cell color is available when you click Create and add a table to the Description field, but after saving the issue, the option is no longer in the cell menu when you return to the issue to edit it.

Now I have a table with half the cells colored that I wanted and can't color the rest!

[romain_labat]

Hello @Steve Myers

As a workaround you can update the issue by api on /rest/api/3/issue/$issueNumber by passing an attrs object to the tableCell or tableHeader

Here is a full example of description field

{"version":1,"type":"doc","content":[{"type":"table","attrs":{"isNumberColumnEnabled":false,"layout":"default","localId":"5d082302-4622-4b51-a05f-d123d50b022c"},"content":[{"type":"tableRow","content":[{"type":"tableHeader","attrs":{"background":"#4c9aff"},"content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"test 1","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]}]}]}]},{"type":"tableRow","content":[{"type":"tableCell","attrs":{},"content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"test2"}]}]}]}]}]}

Here is the corresponding screenshot

Regards

[Laudan Kirk]

Anyone see a fix for this bug rather than a work around? I can't change colors and this would be so helpful if I could. 

[jeffrey_wright]

Ugh, it works in Confluence but not Jira? Why don't they have a common code base? So many reasons to dislike Atlassian products - and finding new ones every day