Colored tabular - line not showing

Question

\begin{tabular}{| p{10cm} | c |}
\hline
& \\
{\bf Requirement:} & {\bf Categorie:} \\
& \\
\hline
& {\cellcolor{green}}\\
text & {\cellcolor{green}{\bf Must Have}} \\
& {\cellcolor{green}}\\
\hline
& {\cellcolor{green}}\\
text & {\cellcolor{green}{\bf Must Have}} \\
& {\cellcolor{green}}\\
\hline
& {\cellcolor{green}}\\
text & {\cellcolor{green}{\bf Must Have}} \\
& {\cellcolor{green}}\\
\hline
& {\cellcolor{orange}}\\
text & {\cellcolor{orange}{\bf Could Have}} \\
& {\cellcolor{orange}}\\
\hline
\end{tabular}

One of the \hline commands isn't comming through? See my picture for the error.

Try to zoom into the PDF -- I think the line is there, but this is a well-known PDF viewer issue — , Apr 16 '16 at 09:49
wow, I generated the PDF, now I do see the line indeed. Thank you! @ChristianHupfer — Pim, Apr 16 '16 at 09:51

AboAmmar · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-16T10:03:36.897

This is a known viewer issue, as also pointed out by @ChristianHupfer. In this case, you can increase the \arrayrulewidth or just open with another viewer.

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\begin{document}

\setlength{\arrayrulewidth}{1.5pt}
\begin{tabular}{| p{10cm} | c |}
\hline
& \\
{\bf Requirement:} & {\bf Categorie:} \\
& \\
\hline
& {\cellcolor{green}}\\
text & {\cellcolor{green}{\bf Must Have}} \\
& {\cellcolor{green}}\\
\hline
& {\cellcolor{green}}\\
text & {\cellcolor{green}{\bf Must Have}} \\
& {\cellcolor{green}}\\
\hline
& {\cellcolor{green}}\\
text & {\cellcolor{green}{\bf Must Have}} \\
& {\cellcolor{green}}\\
\hline
& {\cellcolor{orange}}\\
text & {\cellcolor{orange}{\bf Could Have}} \\
& {\cellcolor{orange}}\\
\hline
\end{tabular}

\end{document}

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 11 '23 at 08:44

The package nicematrix has tools designed to address that kind of problem. In the following code, I have loaded nicematrix (and unloaded colortbl) and replaced the environment {tabular} with the environment {NiceTabular} with the key color-inside (alias colortbl-like) which means that there will be color instructions within the tabular.

You have directly the expected output.

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{nicematrix}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\begin{document}
\begin{NiceTabular}{| p{10cm} | c |}[color-inside]
\hline
& \
{\bf Requirement:} & {\bf Categorie:} \
& \
\hline
& {\cellcolor{green}}\
text & {\cellcolor{green}{\bf Must Have}} \
& {\cellcolor{green}}\
\hline
& {\cellcolor{green}}\
text & {\cellcolor{green}{\bf Must Have}} \
& {\cellcolor{green}}\
\hline
& {\cellcolor{green}}\
text & {\cellcolor{green}{\bf Must Have}} \
& {\cellcolor{green}}\
\hline
& {\cellcolor{orange}}\
text & {\cellcolor{orange}{\bf Could Have}} \
& {\cellcolor{orange}}\
\hline
\end{NiceTabular}
\end{document}

You need several compilations (because nicematrix uses PGF/Tikz nodes under the hood).

Remark \bf is considered as deprecated in LaTeX and one should use \bfseries instead.

Colored tabular - line not showing

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