Confluence Forgot How to Count
Asked by Heth Siemer:

So. This is a bug I encountered yesterday, and today I was able to fix it without completely rebuilding the page *but I have no idea how.* Magic. It drove me nuts yesterday. So I'm hoping someone recognizes this bug and can tell me what happened, or at least a fix that's not as magically confusing, 'cause I have a few more tables that are doing this.

I have a pretty sizable document (\~100 Microsoft Office Pages) with tables littered throughout the document. We have a "Step - Action - Result" standard, and so I use the insert numbering column function.

![insert.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/18346i2AB8CAFD458EFECB/image-dimensions/219x170?v=v2 "insert.png")

We commonly have collapsed Code Blocks in the Result Section of our Documents, which has never been an issue. In edit mode, this particular table looks fine:![edit.jpg](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/18359i7B8FD76D5BDB76EF/image-dimensions/492x226?v=v2 "edit.jpg")  
In view mode however... Step 1 disappeared.

![no1.jpg](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/18360iFB0D00920D42412A/image-dimensions/438x233?v=v2 "no1.jpg")

At first I thought the first row just disappeared... *and then I found it.*

*![12-1.jpg](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/18361i65F93C69B93E7939/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "12-1.jpg")*

I'm pretty sure 1 is NOT the number that follows 12. So to try to troubleshoot it, I copy and pasted the table into my personal space *and it got worse!*

*![bug.jpg](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/18362i4C7F9E3E4C4C8089/image-dimensions/475x358?v=v2 "bug.jpg")*

I returned the code back into the code blocks (all 12) and it fixed itself. No idea how or why that worked, so I copy and pasted it back into the document, and it stayed fixed. So I know it's not a bug with the page.

Oh, but when I pasted back into the original document insert numbering column was no longer checked (I'm assuming because when I pasted it, it thought that all the columns were manually built).

![done.jpg](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/18363i5A7FD5D4FF48A955/image-dimensions/548x205?v=v2 "done.jpg")

However, we have some tables that have 100+ rows and recreating / whatever I just did would be ridiculous to bother with. Luckily, all the buggy tables have been short.

I have not seen this problem in tables that do NOT have the numbering column, but I also am not quite sure if the order of those tables actually matter (or that I would notice anyway).

There's no hidden CSS or HTML or anything anywhere that I can find that would cause this.


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: I've tried to replicate your issue on my end and I can't seem to get the same behaviour. If there is nothing amiss with the html then I'm not sure what the issue could be. Sorry.


author: Heth Siemer
body: I apologize, I should have clarified... when I said there's no hidden HTML or anything that's what I meant.


author: Davin Studer
body: Do you have the [source editor](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor.confluence-source-editor/server/overview) add-on? If you are finding something wonky happening my first thought would be to go look at the source and see if there is something wonky with the source.


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