How to do alignment of column data using the app Advanced Tables for Confluence

Owned by Amulya Akula (Inactive) (Deactivated)
Last updated: Jun 20, 2020 by Smita Nair

This article explains how to align column data to the left or the right using Table Plus macro of the Advanced Tables for Confluence app.

Instructions

  1. Log into your Confluence instance, and create a new page or click to edit an existing page.
  2. Insert the Advanced Table - Table Plus macro and insert a table inside the macro. For this example, consider the following table inside the macro:

  3. Edit the macro and go to Column Settings > Formatting > Cog wheel () > Show column attributes as shown:

  4. Enter either of the styles, style=text-align:left; for left alignment and/or style=text-align:right; for right alignment, as required under Column attributes, and click Save settings. 

The output contains data aligned to the left and/or right as specified in Column attributes. For the given example, the data is aligned to the left for the first three columns and the right for the last three columns as shown:

We recommend to test this in a non-production environment before implementing in the production.