Color text in a table

Question

Is there a way to color text in an entire table without using environment tabular? For example, change the color of text in every cell to red.

Answer 1

Just use

{\color{red}\begin{tabular}{cc}
a&b\\
1&2
\end{tabular}}

and the table will be red.

Answer 2

Do you thing on something like this:

\documentclass{standalone}
    \usepackage[table]{xcolor}

    \begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{>{\color{red}}c >{\color{red}}c}
    \hline
A   &   B   \\
C   &   D   \\
    \hline
\end{tabular}
    \end{document}

If you wish in red (or other selected color) entire table (with lines), than before table just put command \color{red}

Answer 3

Previous posts work for coloring individual columns or whole table contexts in latex. But while using this code for any latex template of a journal you have to write the package \usepackage[table]{xcolor} just next to the \documentclass{standalone}, otherwise, the code will not work. for e.g.

\documentclass[review]{elsarticle}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\usepackage{amssymb,amsmath}
\usepackage{url}

Again for coloring individual texts of a table, you can use

\begin{tabular}{l l }

    \toprule
    1   &   \textcolor{blue}{Water}  \\
    2   &   Hippo grass  \\

    \bottomrule
\end{tabular}