Confluence: hide table cell borders
Asked by Pavel Tarasenko:

Hi all,

Is it possible to completely hide Confluence table borders without tinkering with CSS styles?

Setting "border" to "0" gives in 1px gray borders around table cells (Confluence 3.5):

{table:border=0\|cellpadding=0\|cellspaceing=0\|frame=void\|rules=none}

\|\| header1 \|\| header 2 \|\|

\| cell11 \| cell 12 \|

\| cell 21 \| cell 22 \|

{table}


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Pavel,

you have to do it like this:

```
{table:border=0|cellpadding=0|cellspaceing=0|frame=void|rules=none}{tr}{th}header1{th}{th}header 2{th}{tr}{tr}{td}cell11 {td}{td}cell 12 {td}{tr}{tr}{td}cell 21 {td}{td}cell 22 {td}{tr}{table}
```

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comments: author: Pavel Tarasenko
body: Thanks for your answer!

I'm bit confused by Confluence table syntax, because by default Confluence editor generates a table with cells separated by pipe "\|" symbol. I somehow expected that iternally the same rendering code used for both syntax variants - pipe "\|" and {tr}{td}.

Do you have any idea why tables were impletented this way? Is {tr}{td} more preferable / recent syntax than "\|"?


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Pavel,

the regular Wiki-Syntax for tables is the one with pipes.

But if you use the {table} makro from adaptavist, you have to use also the {tr}, {th} and {td} macros inside.

You cannot use the pipe-Syntax within the {table}-Makro. Then you get a regular Confluence-Table with borders.

Best regards

Thomas


author: boardtc
body: In confluence 4.3.6 it seems one can't edit the markup anymore. Is there anyway of getting rid of a table border once created?


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: [Table Plugin for Confluence](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/TBL) will do what you want:

```
{table-plus:border=0|class=''}|| header1 || header 2 ||| cell11 | cell 12 | | cell 21 | cell 22 |{table-plus}
```

comments: author: Marco Wedekind
body: Hey Bob,

exactly what I was just looking for :)

Thanks

Marco


author: Eric Rodewald
body: So what you're saying is that Atlassian has essentially allowed for zero-border tables to be locked down behind your paid add-on that is not available for my several-thousand-user Cloud instance?


author: Richard Morris
body: So it's been 8 years since the original question: just wanted to check whether the Confluence product has improved tables since then, and now allows this basic thing - or has there been no improvement what-so-ever?

Thanks,  
Richard.


author: Manuel Vogelsaenger
body: Hi all,

I would actually like to tie my post to what [@Eric Rodewald](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1204164) asked back in 2018. Is there any solution for the cloud version because source coding it not allowed there.


author: lea.bongiovanni
body: [@Richard Morris](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2560055) I'm a new client and I'm using the most up-to-date version of Cloud Confluence and the table in Editor does not \*appear\* to have a hide gridlines feature.


author: Janet Dixon
body: Really disappointed in this. I hid table borders in Confluence server, and now trying to do it in Cloud. I'm amazed there aren't more options for table properties in Confluence Cloud. Don't get me started on not being able to put a border around an image anymore!


author: Jill Skj?ndal Grefsrud
body: They could at least add white to the table border colors!?

comments: author: William Wilson
body: But that would allow you to put a workaround in place, and then they wouldn't get those sweet sweet marketplace dollars!


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