Table Grid lines

[Spencer Jones]

Is there anyway to darken the table gridlines as they are hard to see sometimes?

[Davin Studer · Accepted solution]

If you edit either the space or global stylesheet and add the below css it will change the color. The default is #ddd.

.confluenceTh, .confluenceTd {border: 1px solid #bbb;}

[Davin Studer]

You can get to the global stylesheet by going to Confluence admin -> Look and feel -> Stylesheet. If you just want to do it for a space then you would use the stylesheet setup in the space administration.

[Spencer Jones]

Hi Davin,

I don't have space admin rights, but page is in my personal space.

Space Tools -> Look and Feel -> ????

[Davin Studer]

In Space Tools -> Look and Feel you should see a Stylesheet tab. That is the place to put it.

[Spencer Jones]

I guess I just don't have admin rights to change this as all I see is "PDF Stylesheet"....

[Davin Studer]

So it doesn't look like this? Maybe you can get an admin to give your rights. It's kinda odd though. I thought you automatically got space admin rights to your personal space.

[Spencer Jones]

Nope, I only have Themes, Colour Scheme, PDF layout and PDF stylesheet. I check with admin people about this.

[Spencer Jones]

Is this an add-on feature? Which version of confluence are you using? I have 5.4.1.

[Davin Studer]

Nope. Not an addon. I'm running 5.4.4. It's been there for a while. By chance are you using ConfluenceOnDemand?

[Spencer Jones]

Seems like I need get to Admin to make this change. I'll follow-back up next week when I get feedback.

This function is turned off by default. To turn it on, go to > General Configuration > Security Configuration and choose Custom Stylesheets for Spaces.

Reference: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Styling+Confluence+with+CSS

[Davin Studer]

There ya go. Once you have that turned on the above css should work just fine.

[Norman Tatlock]

Ridiculous answers.  How can such a basic thing be lacking from a commercial cloud product like this??  I think I could do this in Windows 95,  25 years ago

[Spencer Jones]

I was denied such access due to security reasons. Oh well, Custom CSS can be used to inject scripts into a page, opening the risk of cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. With this feature enabled, space administrators could upload styles that steal other users' login credentials, trick their browsers into performing actions on the wiki without their knowledge, or even obtain global administration privileges. As such, this feature is disabled by default. Confluence administrators should only enable custom CSS if they are comfortable with the risks listed in this paragraph.

[Davin Studer]

Well, if they do let you do it at some point my answer above would work and is the best way that I can think of.

[Tom_West]

Just adding my solution with Confluence 6.5 for my setup, since I couldn't use the above solution and this article shows up as the first hit on "Confluence darken table grid lines".

Our setup did not have a General Configuration entry (probably restricted by admin).

 (Yes, this would be obvious for CSS practitioners, but for those who just want a cook-book answer.)

I used the CSS Stylesheet macro that was available by default on our Confluence system (I don't know about this macro's general availability).

• Edit the article (this is a per-article solution)
• Select "+" in the editing menu
• Select Other Macros from the bottom of the drop-down menu
• Select CSS Stylesheet from the list of macros. 
• In the dialog appears, change nothing, just click the Insert button.
• This causes the CSS Stylesheet box to appear in the editing document.
• In the CSS Stylesheet box, enter 

   .confluenceTh, .confluenceTd {border: 1px solid #aaa;}

• You can change the gird lines color by changing the #aaa to whatever color you like (default is apparently #ddd - very light).

[Deleted user]

I've added the Style Macro as described above. However, whenever the Style Macro is loaded on the page, the page continues to render - that is it continues to add white space to the bottom of the page and the vertical scroll bar continues to shrink.

Normal rendering resumes once the Style Macro is removed.

Any thoughts?

 update: It would seem the issue has been resolved.  I don't know that I did anything, other than wait 12 hours and restart my laptop.

posted as a stand alone question here

[Corey_Tabb]

thank you tom west that was a lot harder then Atlassian should have made it has taken me half an hour to find out just how to hide the table borders shouldn't have to use CSS to do that should be changeable on the table part of it we can choose cell colour why not boarder colour

[Spencer Jones]

I was denied such access due to security reasons. Oh well, Custom CSS can be used to inject scripts into a page, opening the risk of cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. With this feature enabled, space administrators could upload styles that steal other users' login credentials, trick their browsers into performing actions on the wiki without their knowledge, or even obtain global administration privileges. As such, this feature is disabled by default. Confluence administrators should only enable custom CSS if they are comfortable with the risks listed in this paragraph.