Using cellcolor with tabu

Question

I have made the following table:

\usepackage{tabu}
\usepackage{xcolor,colortbl}

\begin{center}
{\tabulinesep=1.2mm 
    \begin{tabu} to 0.9\linewidth { |[2pt] *{3}{X[1 c]|}[2pt] }
        \tabucline[2pt]{-}
        \cellcolor{green!20}\textbf{Parameter} & \cellcolor{green!20}\textbf{Value} & \cellcolor{green!20}\textbf{Units} \\ \tabucline[1.5pt]{-}
        \multicolumn{3}{ |[2pt]c|[2pt] }{\cellcolor{green!20}Nose Parameters} \\ \tabucline[2pt]{-}
        $\alpha$ & 10 & Deg \\ \tabucline[2pt]{-}
        \multicolumn{3}{ |[2pt]c|[2pt] }{\cellcolor{green!20}Body Parameters} \\ \tabucline[2pt]{-}
        $d_{B}$ & 122 & mm \\ \hline
        $L_{B}$ & 2670 & mm \\ \tabucline[2pt]{-}
    \end{tabu}}
\end{center}

However the title cells arent get affected by \cellcolor.

I have tried to update the package as I read it might effect but it did not work.

Thank you.

see https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/494689/color-rows-on-table-tabu-package if it can help you. Recent fix available on GitHub seems not yet be released on CTAN. — Zarko, Jun 19 '19 at 19:07

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 24 '21 at 02:54

The new LaTeX3 package tabularray is an alternative to the outdated tabu package:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularray}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
  \begin{tblr}{
    width = 0.9\linewidth,
    colspec = {|[2pt]X[1,c]|X[1,c]|X[1,c]|[2pt]},
    row{1} = {green9, font=\bfseries},
  }
    \hline[2pt]
      Parameter & Value & Units \
    \hline[1.5pt]
      \SetCell[c=3]{c,green9} Nose Parameters & & \
    \hline[2pt]
      $\alpha$ & 10 & Deg \
    \hline[2pt]
      \SetCell[c=3]{c,green9} Body Parameters & &  \
    \hline[2pt]
      $d_{B}$ & 122 & mm \
    \hline
      $L_{B}$ & 2670 & mm \
    \hline[2pt]
    \end{tblr}
\end{center}
\end{document}

Using cellcolor with tabu

1 Answers1