Posting here in the hopes this gets seen - I'm using 5.10.1 and can't colour the background of table cells using JSON. I've followed the workaround Bob Swift posted, but no luck.

Has another change been made that effects this?

Excellent .

Hi Bob,
Another update - this fix has also been merged into 5.1.2

Cheers,
Peggy

Good to hear. Thanks.

Hi Bob,
This issue has been fixed, and will be in 5.2.

Cheers,
Peggy

That is disappointing . I wrote up a how to for people that go to 5.0.x before the fix is available. Unfortunately, OnDemand customers have a harder time avoiding the problem. On the other hand, hopefully the will get the fix quicker as well.
How to work around background color row style incompatibility in Confluence 5.0

Thanks for the details Bob.

We're not going to change this for 5.0 sorry, but will work towards a proper fix for the large table problem that will allow the reversal of this change.

Interesting, so it had been fixed in 4.x line at some point. I know it use to be an old problem. So what was the original cause of the issue in 5.0 then given that it didn't exist in 4.3? I saw you other email.

The impact is any user or plugin that sets background color style on the row level of a table expecting it to hold for all row elements (except those elements that they may have set explicitly themselves). As you know, people can create HTML like tables with HTML Table and related macros, or use the HTML macro, or use various other macros that are capable of setting background color styles (like the background macro). Of course I have 5 macros (table-plus, csv, excel, sql, sql-query} across 3 plugins that provide capability to set this for a couple of use cases:

1. row highlighting on mouse over - this is something that has been around for years
2. row style setting for striping (see example) and other needs
   Let me know if you need more info.

Hi Bob,

Just to note the gist of my email here:

The ticket for the overflow of content onto a grey background is an internal one because this is a new issue for 5.0.

Can you let me know what the breakages are in your plugins are that you mentioned above.

John

Sorry about the inadvertent fix level change. I was trying to find rc-1 fix version, but its not there. It was not broken in beta3 or beta4.