How to set borders around sections (layout)

[Lina Wolnit]

Hello Community & Atlassian,

back in the time I have used section/columns with borders to structure my pages more visible and gain clarity using different layouts with more then 1 cell. So how to get back the borders within Confluence Cloud?

Thanks.

-L

[Andy Gladstone · Accepted solution]

@Lina Wolnit welcome to Confluence!

There is no option to create a border around a section of a page that is using the column layout. You can use a table to add the data if you need a border, but layout just creates columns on the page without any borders.

[Lina Wolnit]

Hello, thanks. Those are bad news.  Dont understand why they remove such simple and easy things that were very helpful to create organized and structured pages. 

[christian geeding]

So I did find if you use the divbox you can create a border around the section/column, and then use some CSS code to change it up a bit. 

[JY Kim]

Is there anything that is possible with a confluence editor???

[C]

Any update on bring this back? 

[Maryn Bonniwell]

This was such a nice feature and super useful from a ux perspective. Please bring back!!

[Deb Krasner]

The "Panel" macro used to do a really great job separating sections - but looks like it's discontinued as something that can be tweaked [size / colors] in favor of the standard default set of panels [info, notes, tasks, etc]?

[ambujp]

This is marked as Answer accepted, just curious which answer was acceptance worthy here.

Is Atlassian evening looking into such posts? I find it very frustrating not to have borders around a certain section.  (If) Such degradation/lack of backward compatibility (continues) is seriously making our organization move out of Atlassian products. I am sure they don't care about it. 

[Luc De Schepper]

It seems like the accepted answer is "no."  They just said it with more words. :|

[Peter Mooney]

You can put your content in a Panel {Panel} and format to your heart's content

[Andy Holt]

This! thanks :-)

[Paul Wijnen]

that doesnt work anymore in cloud, the panel function creates a customizable panel but not an empty one with only the border

[Martin Lott]

I would also like to see this re-implemented. Along with borders for screenshots pasted into the page

[Edward Smith-uchotski]

Hi there,

There is a border work around.

Apologies if posted above, you can sort of set a border using two macros. If you embed a columns macro within a section macro, and ensure that the border box is ticked within the section macro you get a dotted line border.  I set the border to 100% to match the size of the section it's contained in.

Note, it will be based on the size of the contents within.

Many thanks,

[Klaus Müller]

Hi Edward, 

thank you for the most helpful tip!

I really don't want to necro this thread but for anyone who is looking for a similar solution: using the columns and section macro doesn't seem to work anymore in the cloud version. :-/

According to the corresponding wiki page, at least the columns maco has been excluded from the cloud editor: 
https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-the-column-macro/

And to be frank the layout function doesn't do anything apart from making things more complicated. 

The whole editor is actually a step backwards imho. 

[Mattia _bitvoodoo ag_]

Hello all,

If you don't mind using a 3rd party app, then the Advanced Panelboxes will meet your needs.

But I am biased since I am employed by this vendor. More options can be found here.

Best regards

Mattia