Section name missing in titles of sections

Question

I used the solution given at https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/34292/77602. But I am not getting the titles of the sections. As it's an article with no chapters, I deleted the chapter stuff. So it's

\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\usepackage{tikz}\usetikzlibrary{shapes.misc}
\newcommand\titlebar{%
    \tikz[baseline,trim left=3em,trim right=3cm] {
        \fill [cyan!25] (2.5cm,-1ex) rectangle (\textwidth+3.1cm,2.5ex);
        \node [
        fill=cyan!60!white,
        anchor= base east,
        rounded rectangle,
        minimum height=3.5ex] at (3cm,0) {
            \textbf{\thesection}
        };
    }%
}
\titleformat{\section}{\huge}{\titlebar}{0.1cm}{}
\renewcommand*{\thesection}{\Roman{section}}
\begin{document}

\section{Introduction}
\lipsum[1-2]
\end{document}

I am getting this:

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Welcome to TeX.SX! Can you make the code into a minimal compilable example (starting from \documentclass up to \end{document}) that shows the issue? — egreg, May 05 '15 at 23:40
Is there also a way to make the right corners of the light rectangle rounded? — Zack Fair, May 06 '15 at 08:29

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 06 '15 at 11:06

Just remove the explicit option:

\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\usepackage{tikz}\usetikzlibrary{shapes.misc}

\newcommand\titlebar{%
    \tikz[baseline,trim left=3em,trim right=3cm] {
        \fill [cyan!25] (2.5cm,-1ex) rectangle (\textwidth+3.1cm,2.5ex);
        \node [
        fill=cyan!60!white,
        anchor= base east,
        rounded rectangle,
        minimum height=3.5ex] at (3cm,0) {
            \textbf{\thesection}
        };
    }%
}
\titleformat{\section}{\huge}{\titlebar}{0.1cm}{}
\renewcommand*{\thesection}{\Roman{section}}

\begin{document}

\section{Introduction}
\lipsum[1-2]
\end{document}

enter image description here

Or keep the option and use

\titleformat{\section}{\huge}{\titlebar}{0.1cm}{#1}

Section name missing in titles of sections

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