How to set borders around sections (layout)
Asked by 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


Answers:
author: Andy Gladstone
body: [@Lina Wolnit](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4771798) 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.

comments: author: Lina Wolnit
body: 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.


author: christian geeding
body: 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.


author: JY Kim
body: Is there anything that is possible with a confluence editor???


author: C
body: Any update on bring this back?


author: Maryn Bonniwell
body: This was such a nice feature and super useful from a ux perspective. Please bring back!!


author: Deb Krasner
body: 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 \[info, notes, tasks, etc\]?


author: ambujp
body: 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.

comments: author: Luc De Schepper
body: It seems like the accepted answer is "no." They just said it with more words. :\|


author: Peter Mooney
body: You can put your content in a Panel {Panel} and format to your heart's content

comments: author: Andy Holt
body: This! thanks :-)


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


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


author: Edward Smith-uchotski
body: 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,

comments: author: Klaus M?ller
body: 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. :-/

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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.


author: Mattia _bitvoodoo ag_
body: Hello all,

If you don't mind using a 3rd party app, then the [Advanced Panelboxes](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/28553/advanced-panelboxes-for-confluence?tab=overview&hosting=cloud) will meet your needs.

But I am biased since I am employed by this vendor. More options can be found [here](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?hosting=cloud&product=confluence&query=panel).

Best regards

Mattia


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