If you have the {html} macro then you can insert JavaScript into your page to effect this. You can also make a macro out of it. Code for changing the height of the current cell is:

<SCRIPT class=setheight type=text/javascript>    AJS.$(document).ready(function() {        AJS.$(".setheight").closest("td").css({"height": "100px"});    }); </SCRIPT>

Also disappointed. It's an issue I run into a lot.

The ability to set the column width is the most important to me since whenever there is a column where text needs to be wrapped it is given a greater proportion of the width than I would like it to have.

Where can i find the feature table-width in the WYSIWYG-Editor? I cant find it.

Incidentally the WYSIWYG editor in Confluence 4.x is horrific when it is my only option. I have less control over my pages now than I did when our company was using Confluence 3.x. Sometimes I am never able to get Confluence to render the page the way I intended. Additionally it takes much longer for me to set display options for elements as I now have to wait for the macro editor window to open and then actually save my changes, something it fails to do on a regular basis. Also due to the way elements are rendered in the "WYSIWYG" editor, which incidentally is a misnomer here since not all of the elements are seen in the editor the way they are rendered on the page (think sections and columns for a quick example), I end up scrolling down the pages much farther in many many instances.

Disappointing but not unexpected from the folks at Atlassian.

Thank you for taking the time to file, watch or vote on this issue. As you may know, Confluence 4.0 will have a number of table improvements such as cell merging, WYSIWYG row highlighting and a dedicated table toolbar. As we near the release of Confluence 4.0 we've been assessing the roadmap in terms of additional table formatting functionality we plan to provide. Since we don't intend to implement this feature in the foreseeable future, we are closing this issue now in order to properly set expectations. Thanks again for your feedback. Please keep it coming.

In addition, I would like to be able to

• Set colspan and rowspan
• Set horizontal and vertical alignment within a cell
• Set the background color of a cell

Revised link:
http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DISC/Table+Improvements+Page