\cellcolor does not change the cell color when \makegapedcells is used

Question

I want to fill the box but \cellcolor{red} doesn't work.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{array, makecell}
\setcellgapes{5pt}
\begin{document}
\makegapedcells
    \begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|}
    \hline
\cellcolor{red}1&1&1&1\ \hline
1&1&1&1\ \hline
1&1&1&1\ \hline
1&1&1&1\ \hline
1&1&1&1\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

Well it did raise "Undefined control sequence" for the cellcolor command there... Make sure that your minimal working example is correct, you need to add \usepackage[table]{xcolor}. ■ Using https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/185674/how-to-see-which-package-define-a-particular-command-macro you can figure out which package the commands belong to (colortbl), and figure out the issue is that makegapedcell conflicts with cellcolor in colortbl. — user202729, Dec 20 '21 at 05:34
Mostly duplicate of tables - makegapedcells disables rowcolor - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange, except the row/cell difference. — user202729, Dec 20 '21 at 05:35

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 18 '21 at 20:32

5

Just load the colortbl package – or xcolorwith option [table]:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{cellspace}
\usepackage[table, svgnames]{xcolor}
\setlength{\cellspacetoplimit}{5pt}
\setlength{\cellspacebottomlimit}{5pt}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\setlength{\arrayrulewidth}{1pt}
\arrayrulecolor{LightSteelBlue}
\begin{tabular}{|Sc|Sc|Sc|}
 \hline
\cellcolor{Tomato}$1$ & $1$ & $1$ \
 \hline
 1 & 1 & 1 \
 \hline
 1 & 1 & 1 \
 \hline
 1 & 1 & 1 \
 \hline
\end{tabular}
  \end{center}
\end{document}

answered Dec 18 '21 at 20:32

Bernard

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I tried to do it on my own code, but I installed the package that you said did not work, the situation is the same:( @Bernard – Pitaya88 Dec 18 '21 at 23:27
@Pitaya88: Which package? – colortbl? – Bernard Dec 18 '21 at 23:30

Zarko · Answer 2 · 2021-12-19T17:53:02.163

In case that you would use [my answer][1] then for coloring od some cell you only need to add the following attribute to this cell:

\SetCell{bg=<name of desired color>}

because in my answer for coloring of rules is already used xcolor package. So your matrix ca be write as:

\documentclass[12pt, border=3mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{tabularray}
\begin{document}
\begin{tblr}{hlines={1pt,teal}, vlines={1pt,teal},
            colspec={*{3}{c}},
            belowsep=0pt
            }
\SetCell{bg=red}  1 
    & 1 & 1     \
  1 & 1 & 1     \
  1 & 1 & 1     \
  1 & 1 & 1     \
\end{tblr}
\end{document}

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 19 '21 at 08:59

I think it is a kind of solution:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\usepackage{nicematrix}
\NiceMatrixOptions{cell-space-top-limit=5pt,cell-space-bottom-limit=5pt}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[htbp]
 \centering
    \begin{NiceTabular}{|c|c|c|} 
    \hline
      \cellcolor{red}1& 1 & 1 \ \hline 
      1 & 1 & 1 \ \hline
      1 & 1 & 1 \ \hline
    \end{NiceTabular}
\end{table}
\end{document}

\cellcolor does not change the cell color when \makegapedcells is used

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