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.

Which tabular-like environmet(s) do you use? – Mico May 24 '15 at 06:44 — Mico, May 24 '15 at 06:44

score 20 · Answer 1 · answered May 24 '15 at 10:06

20

Just use

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

and the table will be red.

answered May 24 '15 at 10:06

David Carlisle

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score 15 · Accepted Answer · answered May 24 '15 at 07:09

Do you thing on something like this:

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\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}

score 2 · Answer 3 · edited Nov 01 '19 at 07:16

2

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}

edited Nov 01 '19 at 07:16

Leucippus

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answered Nov 01 '19 at 06:39

Barnali Barman

21

1

But the question is about not have to set the color in every cell ... With respect to xcolor package, sometimes is not needed, because it is already loaded by the document class or another package, and in this case you do not need the [table] option . Also, although sometimes the order of the packages matter, usually it must be simply in any place of preamble, no just under the \documentclass line. – Fran Nov 01 '19 at 07:39
How can I color a whole row with many elements? – skan Feb 25 '20 at 00:42

Color text in a table

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