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!!

[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. :|

[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,