Now have more colours but they do not display when you print or export to PDF / Word.

Not just 'more colors' but the capacity to enter hexidecimal colors. People should not envy MS Paint. 

A fix for this issue is available to Server and Data Center customers in Confluence 7.5.0
Upgrade now or check out the Release Notes to see what other issues are resolved.

+1

Oh no! Thanks for letting me know christian.sprenger. I've attached the file to the ticket, so you can see it in all its glory.

Picture is broken :'(

Hi everyone

Thank you all for your patience on this one. Confluence 7.5 is about to ship and I wanted to give you a sneak peek of what is coming!

We have expanded the original six options to a range of 49 bright and subtle options. The existing five colours have been tweaked slightly to align with the Atlassian Design Guidelines (ADG) colour palette. Any colours you have used on existing tables/pages won't be affected and you can choose to update these tables with the new colours. 

We've already started planning our next Long Term Support/Enterprise Release (unfortunately, features are not backported) and are looking at further updates to the editor, including ways to make viewing and editing content easier and nicer. I know there are lots of other things on the wishlist and we take all your comments/votes/watches on these bugs and suggestions into consideration (e.g. I see your comments about a colour picker! ).

Hope you enjoy this latest update. Thanks again!

Makisa | Senior Product Manager, Confluence Server and Data Center

Ubelievable! Hooray for colors! 

7.5 so when will it be back ported to 7.4.X   enterprise release???  Or do enterprise release customers have to wait another year?

Waiting for Release

This can not be true!

................... We will miss you: CONFSERVER-27618

PS: When you're at it anyway: please also more colors for comments!

804cc40ede4d and ahirt700596708 thanks for your comments. We sync and collaborate across a number of teams when considering or making changes. However, not all changes can be adopted or made in the same timeframe across products, due to differing priorities. We aim to maintain a familiar experience across our entire product suite; our focus is on improving Confluence Server and Data Center and unfortunately cannot speak to the timeframes/plans of other teams.

@Makisa Appleton - Will you be doing the same thing for Confluence Cloud?

One thing: please make sure the colours are the same as in JIRA.  In previous versions of JIRA/Confluence the colours were different which did not make things look very coordinated (along with many, many, other different interface elements for similar functionality).  Good to see these are now aligned.

Hello Community of CONFSERVER-27618 , as reminder has spotted, we're actively looking at addressing this suggestion. At this stage, we will be expanding the existing colour palette, not necessarily changing the functionality of the colour picker. We're aiming for our new palette to adhere to Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) and to minimise the impact of the change to existing page content.

As always, thanks for your patience and feedback!

Makisa | Senior Product Manager, Confluence Server and Data Center

See issue has progress. Thanks you for picking it up Atlassian.

If possible, please try to keep cell colors when people are copying tables from Microsoft Word or Excel into confluence.

Hellow... just a reminder for 2020 February month

I have been watching this for quite some time and we are very much on board with this need.
We are currently working on improvements to the editing experience and hope to address this request in the near future. You can expect to hear an update on this suggestion from us in the next 6 months.

Cheers,
Adam Barnes | Senior Product Manager - Confluence Server

It's 2020 and still nothing?

I toolbar icon is not all that great - is there perhaps a non WYSIWYG editing mode as a workaround?

Adding another comment to outline this is really a big gap also in 2020... you never know what Jira issue filters are filtering on

Seems this will be ignored forever... While writing this I comment feel like I lost 20 seconds of my life for nothing. It is just sad.

Would there be any use if we all report this issue to Support Portal and ask for a update? Promised 6 months and it's already two years... Almost 700 votes here.

How difficult this could be? Some color codes?

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In comparison to Jira group rename feature request, which really could be hard to implement to database and they have avoided it for years (since 2003).

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-1391

1844 votes there...

Look at attachments, nice cake there (and it's already 1.5 years old).

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Or Rename space key (since 2004, 832 votes):

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-2085

@Joel Delvin put me down for x1 shirt. Also, Size L. Venmo works, I'll include the shipping info in the payment details.

@Joel Devlin   If you get t-shirts made I want one. Size L.

@Joel Devlin @Christian Sprenger 🤣🤣🤣

The funny thing is that this issue seems to be a minor effort. We could all do it ourselves or use a plugin. I'm just afraid, that Atlassian might bring an official fix weeks after my dirty hack, forcing me into a big migration. Seems to be unwarranted.

Now I just spend my time looking at every changelog and asking myself: "How is that more important than this? Don't they have all the tools to do this right?"

In theory the agile method should be customer focussed. I wonder, from our own experience, if you might just end up managing a heap of tickets instead of getting things done. This issue here surely is ridiculous, still we shall learn from it and make it better in our own systems.

@Joel Devlin, what a great idea, let's have the gathering on Facebook and post pictures from the happening on Twitter, that way anybody can participate and learn about the speedy Atlassian - Confluence development team.

Could @Adam Barnes provide another update on this issue?

I'm pretty sure everyone agrees that, when we offer Atlassian to triple the license cost, to implement this function within the next 5 years?

Oh, wait, they did that already and still not implemented. What a pity.

Then we have to offer to double the license cost again, to wait only the next 5 years for implementation

</sarcasm>?

Sorry guys, but I'm getting frustrated.

Atlassian raises the license cost, year by year doubled, and we still having those tickets not fixed.
Shan't we stick together and say "for one year we don't pay the license"?
When they won't receive any money, maybe something will happen?

OK, Marketing wise I see the point. Everyone pays the fee, you can not change to a different platform, and why solving feature request tickets when they can sell licenses for Plugins?
They receive more money without doing anything. Good point.

@Chris McCleary yes it is absolutely now a meme.

I stop by every few months to see how the community has grown. I'm thinking we might have to start running CellCon as a yearly event so all our members across the globe can catch up and discuss the lack of progress on this issue for the year at hand

Well I have found it limiting but workable until recently where we have someone on our team that is colour blind and can't tell the difference between yellow and green. Having different shades of the same colour would make it more suitable for those that are colour blind.

I'm reading through all the comments now... Has this become a meme? Funny stuff.
I'll be back for the 7-year anniversary party! 🥂🎉

This request was originally logged in December 2012. As I write this, we are about 1 month shy of our 7-year anniversary.

@Atlassian. I work for Airbnb and my team we would really benefit from this. Having more colour for tables would make our daily work a lot simpler rather than going through html.  When will we finally hear back on this? Thank you in advance for your help!

@Atlassian: Could you please do an update here?

This is one of the most annoying bug in confluence and clearly limits the usability strongly.

Please fix this immediately (this means this week)!!!

@Atlassian: Any update here?
I had to create some tables today and my customer does not understand why there are only 5 colors.
I could answer that question....

Don't be too upset.

This is why Atlassian raises the maintenance fee, to support us better

I find the Attlassian statement most embarassing:

This statement is nearly 2 years old instead of 6 months.

Dec. 21. 2012, almost 7 years ago, there are 656 named persons who voted for this feature and 263 who are watching this ticket and close to 140 comments.

THIS IS EMBARASSING !!!

I guess they need to change their ticketing system, maybe in Jira they loose all of these feature requests

No excuses just drop a full editor come on!!!!

The number of colors and really even the choice of coloring is pretty awful.

7 years old... We want this feature. 

The light colors are not very good for accessibility, way too faint

Atlassian, please add more colors.

Small things like this one impact adoption more than you may expect. People compare such a platform mostly with what they can do in Microsoft Word documents.... (no need to debate whether that comparison is valid or not).

This seems ridiculous - now well over a year since any update from Atlassian. This is similar to a number of issues that I have voted on and follow both for Confluence and JIRA. CONFSERVER-7118 which would allow cut and paste an excel table while retaining cell and text colors has been open since 2006 - not nearly as many votes but nonetheless something many other editors handle flawlessly. 

Please Atlassian -Improve your editor!

Hahaha! Incredible! In which version did they add two more colors?

Maybe going from 5 colors to 7 was Atlassiasn's way of placating us!

Hi All,

  See my last comment 2+ years(09th Mar 2017). 

This is 2019, back when I started working with computers we had more than 5 colors and that was back in 1984.

The ticket is dated 2012 and I have seen older tickets with the same issue.

Should we start considering other tools, there are other systems that can do what Atlassian/Confluence can just a whole lot better and also import from atlassian.

EMBARRASSING !!!!!!

There's actually a hack on how to do it

http://gustelev.ru/adding-new-colors-to-the-palette-for-a-table-cell-highlighting-in-confluence/

Welcome to the Community, Ville. I've myself been fortunate to be a part of this community for many years now. Among many of the good advises for a happy life, it's one about being part of something that is greater than yourself. And to some extent, even perhaps distant, let's hope this "cell highlight colors" issue can bring humanity closer together. Wish you all the best going forward

Today I joined the merry community of CONSERVER-27618.

Humans may set foot on Mars before Atlassian figures out how to add a few extra highlight color options to their Confluence UI.

To gain the appropriate insight to the longevity of this request, read - thedavidmo's comment from 08/Oct/2018 10:33 AM or the initial request from 2013.

@Eric you realise that was November 2017 right? The "update" is basically a year late  so you can expect any development to be similarly tardy. I don't even use Confluence anymore but I occasionally come back for the lols.

November + 6 months = April ! Can't wait ! 

Any news?....

Hi Team,

Can you please provide us any specific date when this might be implemented. 

Hi Rick,

it's a part of this free plugin here: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1210722/confluence-source-editor?hosting=server&tab=overview

my bad, i should have mentioned that.

I would love to just edit the HTML, but as full admin, I don't see <> in my upper right.  Is there a trick to seeing this?

Posting this here in case it can help anyone:

If you go into edit mode on a confluence page and look to the top right you'll see a  '<>' symbol. If you click this you can see the HTML for the page. Although it is by far not ideal you can use inline CSS here to force the background colors to be whatever you like. Standard HTML table structure looks like this:

<table>
  <tr>
    <th>heading 1</th>
    <th>heading 2</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Data 1</td>
    <td>Data 2</td>
  </tr>
</table>

if you add a space and then style="background-color:#000000" to any of these you can change the background on different parts of the table. #000000 represents the hex code for the color you want, this can usually be found with a quick google search. Adding the code to different tags does the following:

I hope this helps someone

Atlassian Update - November 2017

We are currently working on improvements to the editing experience and hope to address this request in the near future. You can expect to hear an update on this suggestion from us in the next 6 months.

Now it is December 2018.  How long are 6 months in the Atlassian Universe? 

(Perhaps Atlassian works close to light speed, so it appears longer for us than to them?)

No offense to any of the people bonding over sharing this issue, but I do not plan to be a perpetual member of a hardship club. I'll be figuring out how to remove these notices from my already busy life and when Confluence comes up in conversation I'll be sure to mention this ridiculous situation.

6 years for a minor change :o and here I was thinking our backlog was tiresome!

Any news here?

I have to believe this is low hanging fruit, will something critical break if Atlassian updates the pallet to include say, 256 colors (sorry... 'colours')?

And this issue isn't even old yet Please have a look: JRASERVER-1391

There's even 15 year cake

thedavidmo Thanks for a little bit of light concerning this topic. I think CONFSERVER-27618 will survive a nuclear holocaust even, but it's cool to see how it brings us together in the now.

Cheers from Norway!

Thank you @thedavidmo for your delightful comment!  I too have undergone many life changes since I last viewed this Suggestion.  My youngest has graduated from high school.  I've invested funds equivalent to a small house in my children's college educations.  (Start saving now for that baby!)

I also changed jobs.  I moved from a Fortune 150 to the largest defense contractor in the world (and we are one of those huge license owners.)  I'm no longer the Atlassian administrator at my new company, but somehow I can't shake my Atlassian Evangelist role.  (The bigger your company the older and crappier your tools and methods.)  I've used my lovely new training in Culture of Accountability (book not recommended) to Drive Change! and Shatter Silos! by actually having our teams document (gasp!) their methods and processes in Confluence.  (In case they get hit by a bus - too many people get hit by a bus in this world - the retirement bus, the F-this job bus, event the elusive lottery bus...) Which means I still daily answer "how do I?" and "why can't I?" questions about several Atlassian products, including Confluence. 

An improved palette of colors for Confluence would brighten both my day and my Spaces, but probably not as much as this stream of superior Comments on this ancient suggestion.  So don't ever change Confluence!  We will still love you! (Because there is no alternative licensed product at my company.)

And @thedavidmo, your comment will be printed and posted on my cubicle wall as the best example of a complaint about poor responsiveness to a software improvement request I've seen this decade.  We who are about to go back to our pale, washed out Confluence colors salute you!

Wow this request is 6 years old now. After fishing for a moment I found out we were limited in colors and found this request.

Spend a minute to expand your pallet Confluence!

@david.alexander.morris  That made my day

@thedavidmo That has got to be the best "baseball bat wrapped in velvet" comment of all time.  I salute you!  

And yes, the current palette is way too limited and very washed-out looking.  On a non-premium monitor with limited viewing angles, someone standing behind me and pointing at my screen can't even see the shading.  The info/error/warning macro colors seem to have also "gone soft" in recent years so that they are barely noticeable.

Thanks for putting this into "perspective". 

l we have a 5-year-Ticket celebration party then?
In 10 years again?

On one hand, I like to read that many people fase the same problems that we do.

We're not a "big player", we don't have a 20k+ License. Nonetheless, we pay a fortune for the license.

Now @Atlassian raised the license cost again, and not litte. Why? To support us, the community, better, to solve our tickets faster.
I guess the mail has been send on April 1st, but the Atlassian mail client sent it just recently.
Else I can not explain the joke, which, IMHO, it is.

If we all would stop paying the hughe license fee, for one year only, maybe they'll listen.
Or am I wrong? If we pay 10k$ annually for "updates", I could afford to employ one person for 3-4 month...which probably could maintain our site.

But anyway, glad you're all here folks, I'm glad to be part of the community

BR
Chris

At first I marveled at the refusal to implement this dead simple request–but then I began to understand. This isn't about the color palette for tables. This is about people. It's about community. It's about what I now think of as my "second family"–that's right, all of you, from all around the world, who have joined hands around CONFSERVER-27618.

When I first commented on this issue way back on New Year's Eve in  2014, I was in a much different place in my life. I was single; I was living in San Francisco. Since then a lot has happened: the company I worked at went out of business. I got a job at a startup–and then that company, too, went of business. So I got another job, which I've been happy at for over two years now. I started dating a girl; then we got engaged; then we got married. We lived in China for a year and now we live in New York City, and we have a little girl due in December–right around the 5 year anniversary of my comment on CONSERVER-27618.

At this point I don't want them to fix this, because it would be an end to the trickle of email updates from befuddled engineers, PMs, and others around the world who are just trying to make a table cell red. Their struggle reaffirms the bond of our common humanity. I feel a spiritual connection to you all that would disappear in an instant if an Atlassian engineer were ever to take 10 minutes to add a few colors to the palette–or 15 minutes to implement a basic color picker. I pray it doesn't happen, and have faith it never will.

I look forward to the years ahead: watching my child grow up, moving on to the next phase of life. And I'm so grateful that through it all there will be CONFSERVER-27618 by my side, as it always has been. 

I'll send another update when my kid graduates college. Hope you're all doing well.

Regards,
David

Perhaps being able to enter our own color hex values would be great.

Please add more colours, even if you doubled the current palette it would be a good start. 

we need this feature soon

Team Atalassian can we please have an update on the color palette offering?  

Thanks

Eugene

It's crazy that you can't change these colors, they aren't even ADA / WCAG compliant.  Atlassian isn't doing us or anyone any accessibility favors with these terrible uneditable default colors.

Really surprised to find I only have the option to use 5 pastel colours in cells. I really want to create a process flow that's totally editable in a table within Confluence. I'd expect to at least be able to select from standard web safe colours but would prefer entering a hex code.

any ETA?

we need this feature soon. 
The color options are way too less and we need a better palette for creating rich documentations.

^^ I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for features users actually need. Atlassian is too busy trying to polish their slow, broken, new UI no one wanted.