Colorizing lines in a longtable, but not the caption

Asked May 07 '15 at 15:35

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I'm trying to colorize lines in a longtable, which is working except it is colorizing also the caption, like this -

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{report}
\usepackage[table,hyperref,dvipsnames]{xcolor}

\rowcolors{2}{green!25}{} 
\begin{longtable}{| p{.3\textwidth}| p{.7\textwidth}|}
\hline
cell one & cell two \\ \hline
cell three & cell four \\ \hline
cell five & cell six \\ \hline
cell seven & cell eight \\
\hline
\caption{Just a test table}
\end{longtable}

This always colorizes the caption line if there is an odd number of lines. This is in emacs 24.5.50.1, and utilising auctex in debian 8.

How can I get it so that the caption is always uncolored please?

edited May 07 '15 at 15:42

asked May 07 '15 at 15:35

boudiccas

See the second part of the answer to this question. It fixes your problem (duplicate): How to apply alternate row coloring in a longtable in LyX? – Alenanno May 07 '15 at 15:54
In other words, you should add the cell colour definition in the caption, like \caption{\cellcolor{white} Just a test table}. – Alenanno May 07 '15 at 15:57
I'd looked at the reference quoted before but totally missed the \cellcolor{white} part, and that does solve the problem, although it does need several passes or builds. Thanks. – boudiccas May 07 '15 at 17:48
Several passes? Weird, I don't know why that is the case. It took me one. But glad it helped! :D – Alenanno May 07 '15 at 17:51

Colorizing lines in a longtable, but not the caption

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