How to work around background color row style incompatibility in Confluence 5.0

Description

Starting with Confluence 5.0-rc1, a compatibility bug (CONF-28098) was introduced that overrides attempts by users and macros to provide row level background setting. For instances, this impacts table based macros including:

• Table-plus macro
• CSV Macro
• SQL Macro
• SQL-query Macro
• Excel Macro

This impacts at least:

1. Row highlighting on mouse-over
2. Customized row styles like table stripping - see How to control table display characteristics for instance

It also impacts users using more advanced table producing techniques that use the confluenceTable style.

CONF-28098 will be fixed at some point after 5.0, until then the following work around can be used to revert the error to the previous state.

Steps

1. Go to Confluence administration -> Look and Feel -> Custom HTML
2. Edit

3. Add the following to the *At end of the HEAD* section and save:

   <style type="text/css">
   .confluenceTable .confluenceTd
   { background-color: transparent; }
   </style>