Table of Contents Colors or borders

[Jennifer Sherman]

Where can I find options to either set a background color for the table of contents or change the type color or put a border around the  table of contents?

[Barbara Szczesniak · Accepted solution]

@Jennifer Sherman Are you talking about when you use the Table of Contents macro on a Confluence page?

A workaround to try:

1. Insert a table with 1 column and 2 rows.
2. Turn off the header row and delete 1 of the rows (you can't turn off the header row unless you also have another row in your table).
3. Set a background color for your table.
4. Insert the Table of Contents macro in the table cell.

[Jennifer Sherman]

that worked, thanks!

[Zoriana Bogutska_Adaptavist_]

Hi @Jennifer Sherman 

Barbara's solution is one of the fastest because it is built in.

But for a case, if you need to add custom/brand colour as a background table's colour palette, that might not be enough.

In these cases, helpful apps from the marketplace might be helpful. For example, using the Mosaic app (created by my team), you can add not only colour but also images as backgrounds. 

You can also use it to add a custom background to a table or other Confluence elements.

[Kristian Klima]

Hi @Jennifer Sherman and welcome to the community.

I'm afraid, that's not possible natively, unless you use one of the so called 'theme' apps or an app that builds a genuine static website for you from Confluence content.

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?query=themes%20confluence

Most popular apps are:

• Scroll Viewport
• Spacecraft
• Refined for Confluence

Then there are formatting macros app that focus on specific UI elements.

We're using Scroll Viewport and our site looks like this. (TOC appears at a certain width of the page).