I swear Atlassian marks stuff fixed at random.

The new buttons for merging cells to produce rowspan and colspan are great, but I am still wondering how (or if) I can create tables with rowspan/colspan in Confluence markup.

@John Ruggentaler: Oh sorry, somehow I must have overseen that. Maybe also because this JIRA space is about Confluence, not JIRA

The only way I know in JIRA is to use the {html} macro like this:

{html}
<table border=1>
<tr>
<th>col1</th>
<th>col2</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan=2>colspan</td>
</tr>
</table>
{html}

Please note that this doesn't work here in this space, as {html} is obviously deactivated for security reasons. But it does work this way in my local JIRA, see here:

Mirko Koltz I am asking about the JIRA editor not confluence. The documentation https://jira.atlassian.com/secure/WikiRendererHelpAction.jspa?section=tables only shows a basic table. There is no Wiki markup documented to do colspan or rowspam in the JIRA editor help.

@John Ruggentaler: You can use these buttons in Confluence:
Just select multiple cells and press the left button to join them (i.e. applying colspan resp. rowspan). The right button un-joins the cells again.

The functionality described in this Jira and marked as "Resolved: 10/Sep/2011 9:09 PM" does not seem to exist in the JIRA editor. We are using Jira v6.2.7#6265-sha1:91604a8. Can someone provide feedback on whether or not this feature is available in the Jira editor? See also CONF-1985 Add column-spanning in tables ala OpenWiki.

steeleburton, I think you meant to reference CONF-3393 - Colspan (and rowspan) are a major feature for the new editor, but setting column widths (and particularly in your case, constraining column widths) is not an implemented feature.

I'll add my voice to this chorus. I thought I was going to find an easy "how to" description re: changing the width of a column. Instead, I found this thread. It would be a great and seemingly standard feature to add. This is especially true given the number of enterprise customers using your wiki for their tech docs.

It is frustrating for our users to have to use the horizontal scroll bar to see a wide table as it is squeezed onto the page with a long lefthand navigation tree. If we were able to shrink the width of some columns, this would result in much more user friendly tables for our users.

What is the technical debt that is holding you back from implementing this feature? How can you overcome those constraints?

Gotcha. thanks for the quick replies.

Hi elenzil, to do colspan you need to use the WYSIWYG editor...it's not available in wiki markup. That's one of the reasons we set out to implement the new editor in 4.0...to allow us to deliver features like colspan.