How can I insert a table in a table

[schen]

In the Legacy Editor, I can have a nested table like the following

In a new editor, I cannot find a way to create a nested table. The following is the table I created in new editor. I can I insert another table to a table?

[Witold Dziel]

Seems like nesting tables is not possible in the new editor on Confluence pages. This is a huge step down and actually this might be a blocker in switching to the new editor.

[Kristian Klima]

@schen - you can't

Generally speaking, nesting macros and the other page furniture is something that Confluence Cloud editor shies away from.

HOWEVER :D

What you're looking at is a table in a table cell - achieved via putting a table into an excerpt macro on Page 1.1, then putting that excerpt into a table cell on Page 1.2

[Gal Ziv]

Thank you, it works like a charm

[Atikin]

Can you please share the the exact steps you did to achieve this nested table?

[Witold Dziel]

This is genius :-) Thanks for sharing this idea. I still cannot believe that they got rid of nesting functionality :-(

[Kristian Klima]

@Atikin 

I'll try :) 

In the following scenario, Page B is the target page = the page where you want this to appear.

1. On Page A, insert the Excerpt macro.
2. Put the desired table A into that Excerpt macro.
3. On Page B, create and configure table B in which you want table A to appear.
4. In that table B, go to the desired cell and put the Insert Excerpt macro there -  configure the Insert Excerpt macro to show the Excerpt from Page A.
5. Done

[Kristian Klima]

@Witold Dziel 

[Atikin]

@Kristian Klima - Thank you so much! That worked.. 

[Terry Gilbert]

While I appreciate the ingenuity of this solution, it is a terribly clumsy hack to require people to go somewhere else to edit the content of the secondary table.  This is force on us by a severe limitation of confluence. I am disappointed in confluence.

[Nicolas Grossi]

@schen You might take a look at this thread: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Nested-tables-in-Confluence/qaq-p/695151

Nicolas

[Nicolas Grossi]

@schen Welcome!, Once you have a table you might want to add more cells to it as columns or rows.

HTH

Nicolas

[schen]

Hello Nicolas, thanks for your reply. I just updated my post to clarify what I'm trying to do. I need a nested table instead of adding some columns or rows.