Nested tables in Confluence

[Jinyoung Park]

Hi all,

I used to be able to create a table within a table using the button on top in edit mode. Now, it's grayed out when I'm within a table, and when I hover over the icon, I'm told that nested tables are unsupported.

Is this an issue with the new version of Confluence? Is there a way to get around this? The document already contains nested tables and I would like to keep the format uniform, and copying and pasting does not work.

Thanks,
Jinyoung

[SAVDEEP SINGH · Accepted solution]

Is there any workaround?

[Shannon Spaniol]

Savdeep,

If you check the bug ticket I posted in my answer, you'll see that some user has come up with a workaround last month. I recommend you reach out to him on that case for more details regarding the workaround. He's attached some images but they appear to not be showing.

• Nesting tables workaround

Regards,

Shannon

[Denise Kramer]

Hi Savdeep,

Place your cursor in the table and select {} Markup from the Insert More Content menu. Ensure Confluence Wiki is selected from the Insert drop-down. Then, type  ||col into the Insert text box. You'll a table column in the Preview pane. Click the Insert button. A one column, one row table will be placed within the table. You can then add columns and rows as you normally would.

I saw this work around in another post and it has worked consistently for me.

Good Luck,

Denise

[Jignesh Jaiswal]

Thanks, this works. 

[Charisma Riley]

Denise, your solution saved the day for me! Thanks!

[Alexander Poole]

Thanks for this solution Denise. Simple and effective.

[Camie Thistleton]

Brilliant solution Denise. You saved my day and saved me many hours of work re-constructing Confluence pages.

[Shannon Spaniol · Accepted solution]

Hi Jinyoung,

I believe you may be using the new Confluence Cloud version, correct? If so, Nested Tables are no longer supported here.

I've created a ticket in our reporting system so that the team can let us know whether or not it will be brought back, but it may be unlikely.

• CONFCLOUD-58656

Regards,

Shannon

[Mary Johnson]

I can't believe this functionality has been removed without warning! My company is highly dependent on this functionality for documenting requirements.  I tried copy and pasting a previously created row and the paste functionality did not work as expected.  This is a major issue from our point of view.

[Barbara T]

Added my comment as well. We rely heavily on our program status pages and inside the tables are more important pieces of data that have to be displayed in a table format. Please provide a work around of some kind.

[丘麗娟]

This is a very useful feature for me too, so I would like this feature to be reinstated. 

Thank you.

[Davin Studer]

Atlassian recently announced that they are removing that ability. Personally, I think it is a terrible decision as they are assuming that they know best how you should write your documentation. The reason they gave was so that your documentation could be more readable.

[Shannon Spaniol]

Hi Davin,

I created a ticket linked in my answer to gather feedback on this issue, so please feel free to vote on it as well and comment with your feedback.

Regards,

Shannon

[Denise Kramer]

Hi Shannon,

Thanks for submitting the ticket. I have added my comments to it. This change will make creating my API documentation on Confluence very difficult.

Everyone,

The only thing I have found as a work around is to copy an existing nested table and just change the text. It is a lot of work, but in a pinch it can work.

Thanks,

Denise

[Daniel (home) Harvey]

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