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Hi all,
This feature is now rolled out to 100% of Confluence customers, we hope you enjoy using it!
We are looking at how we might bring this feature to Jira soon.
Thanks
Owen
Summary
In the new editor, it's no longer possible to modify image properties and add a border like you could in the old editor.
Suggested Solution
Include the ability to modify properties and include a border
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CONFCLOUD-67554 Resize image by pixel on new editor
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CONFCLOUD-67122 Image annotations is not available upon clicking on the image
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CONFCLOUD-68220 Image Effects (Borders, Taped Edges)
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[CONFCLOUD-67895] Ability to modify image properties and add border in new editor
Has this feature disappeared or am I blind?
I saw the border and successfully applied it earlier this week and now I don't see it.
Yes, finally but grateful nonetheless that this feature was able to roll out. Thank you! Works for me!
This isn't working 100% of the time. I have an image in a layout and the border doesn't appear.
I'm finding it doesn't work when the image is in a page layout.
Does Confluence plan to update its Conversion Tool so it converts an Old Editor border to a New Editor border? We can create a border in New Editor now but cannot convert an existing border. Is this item being tracked separately?
Thank you. The added feature is a subset of what exists on Server, but is a huge improvement to readability.
While this is great to finally have in theory - anyone using the Refined for Confluence Cloud addon you'll still have problems.
Borders fail to render on images encapsulated within UI elements like UI Steps or UI Tabs etc.
They show just fine on the edit screen but are missing on page view.
We unfortunately use this addon/macros heavily in our documentation so this fix hasn't really solved anything for us sadly.
Thanks! Tutorials with screenshots containing white areas towards the edges, are much easier to read now!
Hi all,
This feature is now rolled out to 100% of Confluence customers, we hope you enjoy using it!
We are looking at how we might bring this feature to Jira soon.
Finally! Only about 4 years in the making so we can have a border.
Now hopefully Atlassian has some time to work on a few of the pressing Jira tickets with hundreds of comments that have been open for 4+ years and have been actively researched by Atlassian with absolutely no updates.
00304f1742ad and a338feacbc1b, features typically slowly hit different cloud sites at different times in phases. They haven't announced anything so it is most likely in the process of rolling out everywhere and we will hear something from Atlassian shortly. I'm sure it's coming to you soon... good find everyone! This was one of the biggest pain points in the new editor (in my opinion). Glad to be able to separate images from each other and text to help frame ideas!
I'm still just seeing the standard toolbar (with the alignment and wrapping options, link, alt text, etc.). I even tried logging out and back in. Maybe the change is taking a while to propagate everywhere.
A little breath of fresh air appreciated. Thanks !
More line thickness choices and custom border colors would be appreciated, though (no, we are never satisfied ).
Shadow options and/or border styles would be a very nice to have (like in the legacy editor).
To find it, click on the picture itself. There is a little square on the left side of the toolbar that appears under the picture
Awesome. My white background screenshots now look like a screen, not just text hanging in the middle of nowhere.
I see comments here where people are stating the feature has been restored, but I just logged into our confluence site and I'm not seeing it. Where is the option? Is it in the picture toolbar that pops up below an image when you click on the image? I'm just seeing the same toolbar as before.
Nice that you included line weight! Not sure about the 3 shades of black/grey, but I'll take it!!
The image border option appeared today in our Confluence cloud space.
@Owen Wallis - Would you provide another update since your March 28th comment? When will this feature be delivered?
This is a crucial feature for anyone who documents procedures with screenshots. Also VERY important is the ability to RESIZE images which also used to be available.
Hi 48351c5642c3 - that is a glorious comment, thank you!
We have finalised design/UX and are actively building the Image borders feature. I'll post when I have an update on rollout timings.
P L E A S E, P L E A S E, P L E A S E ! ! ! ! 
RESTORE THE IMAGE BORDER FEATURE!

Seriously, is it really that hard? The only thing more irritating than this lost feature is the awkwardness of the workarounds. You have pages and pages of requests. I hate this important feature ommission and I'm clearly NOT ALONE!
*+RESTORE IT!
+RESTORE IT!*
RESTORE IT!
@Sylvain Ménard - pls read my 1/25/23 post above - here are a few things you can do in the meantime until they get our features BACK (this will enable you to add borders to your images, etc.):
- Ask your company to enable the Legacy Editor Template (https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-do-I-enable-the-legacy-editor-template/qaq-p/1650775): If enabled, when you create a new Confluence cloud page, you are given a list of templates to apply---and you can choose the Legacy Editor Page template, which will bring back the Legacy Image Toolbar.
- Image toolbar: If you can't get the Legacy Editor Template (per the above bullet), but you have imported a previous Confluence server page to the Confluence cloud, that imported page will still have the legacy image toolbar intact (it did for us). When creating a new page, you can instead just make a copy of the imported server page to maintain the feature. The Source Editor plug-in may be helpful for this too, as you can try to copy & paste code from a previous page to a new page to hopefully maintain the formatting.
We have just migrated from Server to Cloud and this is a serious issue for a lot of people in the organization.
For migrated pages, this issue makes us keep from switching to the new editor most of the time if possible.
Now we have to find à way as efficient and as fast to add borders to our screen captures (and we have a lot), for example.
Thanks,
Sylvain
Hi folks,
Sorry for the radio silence on this issue
We've figured out design/UX for this
Can't give a firm date on delivery, but this feature is going into development next quarter - so hopefully won't be too long till we can ship this to you all
@Anton Marcuse - Yes. It is hard to understand why the issue is requiring so much analysis - a feature that, apparently, previously existed.
This is such a simple feature and yet so useful for a documentation tool!
And still, no progress after years?
Tips I've learned so far:
- Ask your company to enable the Legacy Editor Template (https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-do-I-enable-the-legacy-editor-template/qaq-p/1650775): If enabled, when you create a new Confluence cloud page, you are given a list of templates to apply---and you can choose the Legacy Editor Page template, which will bring back the Legacy Image Toolbar.
- Image toolbar: If you can't get the Legacy Editor Template (per the above bullet), but you have imported a previous Confluence server page to the Confluence cloud, that imported page will still have the legacy image toolbar intact (it did for us). When creating a new page, you can instead just make a copy of the imported server page to maintain the feature. The Source Editor plug-in may be helpful for this too, as you can try to copy & paste code from a previous page to a new page to hopefully maintain the formatting.
- Remove pop-ups: Click the Profile icon > Settings > Edit (under the Settings tab (default)), and then clear the Page card hover option & click Submit.
- Copy everything in your page before saving/publishing: We sometimes have some connection errors with using the cloud (could be our own company's issue), which will sometimes cause my page to go blank (1 time lasted for ~1 hour). I am just in the habit anyway of saving the whole page before I save/publish. Luckily each time this happened, my page was still saved, but when I spend a lot of time on a page, I still copy my stuff just in case.
1. Before saving/publishing, select all the text and images in the page (Ctrl+A) and press Ctrl+C to copy. Everything you selected is safely in your system's clipboard.
2. If the page saves OK, all good. If not and goes blank, you lose connection, etc.---paste (Ctrl+V) your work from the clipboard to a backup page somewhere, and contact your Support or wait a bit and re-try. I think you can create your own personal cloud account to use as a backup in case this happens (if you apply restrictions as to who can view, as you do not want to publicize any confidential company info), and then delete the page once your page is recovered.
Hope this helps someone!
@owenwallis - Oh no—all the images I added in this comment won't display, ughhh. Pls let me know if you have an email where I can send you all the screenshots showing the issues?
@owen wallis https://jira.atlassian.com/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=owallis%40atlassian.com — thank you so much for replying to us and asking for feedback! In the past 2 days, here are the issues I have seen and the features I'm missing and need to have to do my job efficiently and quickly:
- Image toolbar: I desperately need the image toolbar back so I can add a border & change the pixels for consistency to my images:
Using a "grab handle" is not working for me and now my images all look different sized (which will not give a good user experience). I insert hundreds of screenshots for our user docs.
- Change image inserting back to left-aligned vs centered: Pls ensure all images come in as left-aligned vs centered... Having the image come in as centered makes me have to change it every single time, and I have hundreds of images.
- I cannot find the Source Editor? I need this as I use it a lot:
- Include Page macro adds to much space above & below: I use single-sourcing/reusable text in hundreds of pages—create one "source" page that has a list of steps or a note or a text blurb, and then insert the source page in other pages using the Include Page macro (below page uses 3 different source pages):
When I save/publish the page—it now has way too much space between the steps, so the ones with the macros are spaced out and look horrible, and then you have the page's text, which is normal-spaced:
- Change space colors: In old instance, I could update our space to our company colors using: Space tools > Look and Feel > Color Scheme — now we are very limited with one option in Customise Colour Scheme Settings (grayed out the color #'s):
- Turn OFF pop-ups: Pls—how do we turn off these constant pop-ups, while going thru the tree and also every time I save a page, etc... I work in this tool all, day, every day.
- I can use an imported page to create new pages and the toolbar is there, but I get a message saying—is this OK? It also will be tiring to keep using another page to keep creating new ones, but will do it if we have to...
- Notes: I set up a page with a note, and then insert this page into other pages using the Page Include macro. The source page has the Note icon image in it (left side of the note):
But in the page that is using the macro to bring it in---it removes the Note icon & only displays the text in a purple box w/o a Note icon:
Please help us get these features back! Thx for asking, and let me know if you need to contact me with any questions or anything—I am 100% willing to help!
Hi 89b2dbbca9cb and everyone giving their time to comment on this thread.
I'm the PM responsible for this areas. I'm meeting with my team next week to discuss this feature, and the other feature gaps between Server and Cloud.
These are some of the main issues I'm tracking for Confluence (these are specific to Media - so files, images and video):
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-67554 | Resize images by pixels |
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-65302 | Include a link to attachments on other pages |
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-65749?_ga=2.202759825.1232854915.1574046401-1728863665.1565589405 | Insert images from the web |
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-67895 | Image borders |
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-67745 | Comments on images |
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-65344 | Allow adding attachments from page or space |
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-67779 | Show attachment as image or a link |
If I'm missing any other major features you have on Server, but not on Cloud please let me know.
I have some hope as the https://marketplace.atlassian.com/ has plug-ins, so maybe these will help! They have one for the Source Editor, some apps for images, and prob have ones for tables (I haven't done any tables yet, so don't know the issues), etc. So, maybe plug-ins are the solution! (I pray so!)
I did the research study and was shown a prototype of this functionality.
Would you be able to explain what the technical issue is with implementing this? Is there some deep underlying limitation that we're not aware of?
Oh my gosh—in NEW pages I create---the Border & resizing features are gone. In my pages that got copied to the cloud the features are there, but any NEW pages I create—the little image toolbar is GONE and has very limited image features (a "grab" handle doesn't help proportionally size my images, there is no border anymore, the images are all brought in a centered vs left-aligned to go under steps, etc.). Bummed that so many features we all use and need were removed.
Would you like the ability to create a border around an image?
Yes.
It's very hard for us to determine what kind of border? We've had several breakout sessions and international in-person lunches to determine which kind of border we should give.
1px solid #000000 for starters
then dashed and dotted border
and be able to change colors so it looks better depending on the image. Sometimes black or white is better.
Once a little menu with border options is created, it could be reused for whole paragraph sections or columns.
Agreed. Please add a basic 1px solid black border option. Each image individually - not all or nothing on all images on the page.
Please start with that as soon as you can. Planning to add something more custom and fancy in future releases.
Many thanks
Martina
Henry is correct: An option to add a basic black border would be a vast improvement. I think most people would greatly prefer a basic border option being provided NOW as opposed to a promise of fancier border options being promised sometime in the undefined future. Especially when the future never seems to arrive.
Borders are NOT a difficult feature to implement, and you used to have image border options in old editor. So, I don't understand why it is taking literally years to re-implement this feature?
1px solid #000000
...to start with. This is better than having no border as currently and would cover 99 % of the use cases. If we have this we can talk about more fancy features as Shadows, Line Styles, Colors etc.
To repeat what others have said:
Would you like the ability to create a border around an image?
Yes.
It's very hard for us to determine what kind of border? We've had several breakout sessions and international in-person lunches to determine which kind of border we should give.
1px solid #000000
Could you please help us give our Head CEO Aesthetics UI/UX some pointers? They say a border breaks continuity in the whole paperflow smoothing of the screen.
Many images have either a transparent background or a solid white background (most of ours are screen captures that have a solid white background). When this happens, it is very difficult to see the boundaries of the image vs. the background of the Confluence page. Certainly anyone with UX or basic design experience would recognize this. If I need to dedicate an hour of my time to explain it to anyone, I'm certainly willing to do that as, in the end, it is a simply ROI analysis - 1 hour to explain vs. hours of manually adding borders to images before I import them into Confluence.
Please please add this feature
- it's the users' choice to use border or not on the pages.
- it's not on your CEO's aesthetic preference of the continuity ............
Would you like the ability to create a border around an image?
Yes.
It's very hard for us to determine what kind of border? We've had several breakout sessions and international in-person lunches to determine which kind of border we should give.
1px solid #000000
Could you please help us give our Head CEO Aesthetics UI/UX some pointers? They say a border breaks continuity in the whole paperflow smoothing of the screen.
Add a border option.
Basic accessibility features previously available in Confluence and widely available in other KB/Wiki softwares shouldn't require already very busy people to participate in a 1 hour "research study" fam... you're sitting on something that literally makes your product usable as a documentation tool. OneNote is honestly better than confluence these days it's sad
Another thing that is no more available in the cloud version
Better replace your editor with a plain ASCII editor if you are unable to implement and keep simple features.