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Hi everyone!
We’re excited to share that we’ve started working on adding more layout options to enhance your experience. Our first release will introduce the ability to select more column numbers, giving you greater flexibility.
Following that, we’re exploring the possibility of introducing a single-column layout. Stay tuned for these updates as we continue to improve and expand our features!
We appreciate your patience as we work through these features. I know it has been a long time coming!
Tamim.
As we're working through this feature and others, we wanted to address a lot of your concerns as to the future of the new editor and legacy editor.
Please read our recent community post here: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-Cloud-articles/Change-to-your-content-is-in-your-hands/ba-p/1324476
Thanks,
Avinoam
Description
With the new editing improvements, the layouts have changed in order to provide different options for the users in order to be aligned with the newly introduced modifications and how the pages will render in terms of user experience.
However, there are missing options in which were usable in terms of organization and to quickly help users reorganizing them, instead of relying on copy and paste from one specific part to the other. Those options would be:
- Single column layout: No longer available and the closest of it would be to use a default space outside of the sections/columns. This could be useful for users that quickly wanted to reach certain parts of the page, or, copy only the content inside the specific column/section.
- Options to Move to top/bottom: To quickly insert a new section above the page location. For larger pages, this quickly helped users to insert new content into a specific part and if needed, quickly re-organize a hierarchy of content that could be also used in macros like Table of Contents.
- Four or more columns in the layout
This is a request to have options to Move the layouts to the top/bottom back and also, the single-column layout for organization purposes.
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[CONFCLOUD-67648] Additional options for page layouts
I agree with Ines/Diana. The latest visual update is frustrating. Please bring back the borders on the columns when in edit mode.
Removing the layout borders in edit mode makes it difficult to see the boundaries of existing layouts, and even more so when adding a new layout without any content yet. In addition, we have some legacy pages that used the single column layout from on-prem, which the Cloud fabric editor does seem to support (the dropdown just shows "Column").
However columns don't support certain features like fixed width tables (they're always full width). When I was editing an existing page I couldn't figure out why a table could not be resized. After a lot of frustration I discovered that the content was within a single "Column" layout but it's impossible to tell now that the borders are gone. I had to hover my mouse just right on the boundaries of the layout to find it.
I put together some screenshots showing the problem: https://imgur.com/a/xBClZGu
In the first screenshot, there is no gripper to resize the table (the visible gripper is to resize the image, which also doesn't work when in a table within a column):
In the next screenshot, if I hover my cursor just right you can see it turns to a hand:
And in the last screenshot, if I click it selects the column and you can see "Column" shown in the dropdown at the bottom.
Ines C. nailed my sentiments in her comment. The recent update to panels doesn't feel like an improvement.
Hi Team,
It looks like an update to page layouts has been released today.
Unfortunately, the experience did not get better, it got worse. I'm having a hard time with editing, adding and removing layouts.
It became really difficult to see where the layouts are, without the grey borders, moving layouts around, adding and removing spacing between layouts, etc. Besides this, the page gets stuck in loading.
Is it possible to review and improve this? Thanks!
Just switched to Confluence Cloud. Has there seriously been no way to choose a single column layout in the new editor "experience"? For 5 years? Such a fundamental requirement. I'm certainly just missing something.
I really appreciate that this issue finally is "In progress" state.
One note: the last status update should state “Status Update 09 January 2025" not 2024. We have waited for this in over five years!
Hi everyone!
We’re excited to share that we’ve started working on adding more layout options to enhance your experience. Our first release will introduce the ability to select more column numbers, giving you greater flexibility.
Following that, we’re exploring the possibility of introducing a single-column layout. Stay tuned for these updates as we continue to improve and expand our features!
We appreciate your patience as we work through these features. I know it has been a long time coming!
Tamim.
I'd like to see the option for layout to have or not have borders in published mode. My reason is there are limitations to nesting cloud macros. I have a page I'd like to use layouts on, but the structure of the page seems random and doesn't appear uniform as it would with tables. Tables cannot be nested inside of tables in cloud. So I've tried layout but the content seems to "hang in the air" due to lack of lines/borders to provide structure.