Colouring cells of tables without xcolor

Question

Are there any decent alternatives to xcolor if I want to colour cells in a table? I want to highlight certain cells depending on my data, but not entire rows or columns.

I'm using Knitr and am having consistent problems with xcolor when I use the chunk option dev=tikz so would rather just avoid xcolor altogether.

Any suggestions appreciated.

xcolor doesn't really colour tables, it just includes colortbl if you use the table option, so you can use colortbl and the standard color package (although I don't understand your comment about xcolor) — David Carlisle, Jun 27 '14 at 08:45

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 03 '14 at 07:48

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You don't have to use xcolor to color cells of a table. Just load the package colortbl.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{colortbl} %use in the preamble

\begin{document}

\begin{table}[h]
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}\hline
H1           & H2       & H3 \\\hline
\cellcolor{red} I am colored & I am not & \cellcolor{green} I too am\\\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

\end{document}

edited Jul 03 '14 at 07:48

T. Verron

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answered Jun 27 '14 at 10:33

theOne

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How do you automatically colour all cells on the third column containing negative numbers? – skan Mar 31 '16 at 20:28
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@skan Dated, but see if this addresses the column color matter. – Saphar Koshet Oct 11 '18 at 21:17

Colouring cells of tables without xcolor

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