Cellcolor overwrites partial horizontal lines (\cline)

Question

So I need to make a colored table with multirows, together with the use of partial horizontal lines. I used \cline which does not work: the \cellcolor-command overwrites the line. This question told me to change it to \hhline which will not be overwritten by \cellcolor. Instead, \hhline overwrites the color.

To make it more clear:

Without color:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage{multirow}

\begin{document}

  \begin{tabular}{|c|c|}
    \hline
    \bfseries ColumnOne & \bfseries ColumnTwo\\ \hline
    First data & 932\\ \hline
     & 239\\ \cline{2-2}  % or \hhline{|~|-|}
     & 137\\ \cline{2-2}  % or \hhline{|~|-|}
    \multirow{-3}{*}{More data} & 319\\ \hline
    Last data & 132\\ \hline
  \end{tabular}

\end{document}

$Using <code>\cline</code> without color$

With color:
Using \cline

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage{multirow}

\begin{document}

  \begin{tabular}{|>{\columncolor{red}}c|>{\columncolor{blue}}c|}
    \hline
    \bfseries ColumnOne & \bfseries ColumnTwo\\ \hline
    First data & 932\\ \hline
     & 239\\ \cline{2-2}
     & 137\\ \cline{2-2}
    \multirow{-3}{*}{More data} & 319\\ \hline
    Last data & 132\\ \hline
  \end{tabular}

\end{document}

enter image description here Makes the lines in the right column disappear.

Using \hhline

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{hhline}

\begin{document}

  \begin{tabular}{|>{\columncolor{red}}c|>{\columncolor{blue}}c|}
    \hline
    \bfseries ColumnOne & \bfseries ColumnTwo\\ \hline
    First data & 932\\ \hline
     & 239\\ \hhline{|~|-|}
     & 137\\ \hhline{|~|-|}
    \multirow{-3}{*}{More data} & 319\\ \hline
    Last data & 132\\ \hline
  \end{tabular}

\end{document}

enter image description here Creates white lines on the left column.

Is there any possible way on how to resolve this?

I'd recommend reading this answer on avoiding horizontal rules in tables. — Brent.Longborough, Jul 30 '12 at 13:46
Please do not edit my post without knowing the context, i.e. why I want to do this. I know what I'm doing and why I want to do it. — Didii, Jul 30 '12 at 13:56
I agree with Werner; please feel absolutely free to roll back the edit. It's worth mentioning, though, that one of the things that attract many of us here to TeX is the beauty of it's output, hence the warning, which was, please believe me, intended entirely in the spirit of friendship. — Brent.Longborough, Jul 30 '12 at 14:13
On reflection, and considering the opinions of friends, I've rolled it back. Please accept my apologies. — Brent.Longborough, Jul 30 '12 at 14:16
No need for apologies. My comment was not meant offensively, I know you did what you think was right. — Didii, Jul 30 '12 at 14:57

score 27 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 31 '12 at 11:56

27

I'm sorry the interface is not brilliant here: But you can do this:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{hhline}

\begin{document}

  \begin{tabular}{|>{\columncolor{red}}c|>{\columncolor{blue}}c|}
    \hline
    \bfseries ColumnOne & \bfseries ColumnTwo\\ \hline
    First data & 932\\ \hline
     & 239\\ \hhline{|>{\arrayrulecolor{red}}->{\arrayrulecolor{black}}|-|}
     & 137\\ \hhline{|>{\arrayrulecolor{red}}->{\arrayrulecolor{black}}|-|}
    \multirow{-3}{*}{More data} & 319\\ \hline
    Last data & 132\\ \hline
  \end{tabular}

\end{document}

Result:

enter image description here

edited Jul 31 '12 at 11:56

Didii

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answered Jul 30 '12 at 13:07

David Carlisle

757,742

Never thought of that solution. It's indeed not the best solution but it works nonetheless :) So thanks! – Didii Jul 30 '12 at 13:58
4

I've noticed that in there are very small white-ish lines in between the cells of the multirows - has anyone found a way to get rid of those? – zje Dec 05 '13 at 05:02
@zje , the lines are shown in my preview (writelatex.com), but not in the generated pdf. The pdf is neat and clean. – Alisa Apr 28 '17 at 21:16
1

@zje I think it depends on the viewer, I don't get them in the texworks editor, but I do get the lines in evince Document Viewer – Jonno_FTW Feb 13 '20 at 05:10
@Jonno_FTW I was using evince, so that is consistent – zje Feb 15 '20 at 17:57

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 03 '21 at 23:24

It’s easy peasy with tblr environment of the new LaTeX3 package tabularray: multirow, cline and cellcolor work well together as expected. You can even replace \cline{2}'s with \hlines in the following code.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{tabularray}
\begin{document}
\begin{tblr}{
  colspec = {|Q[c,red7]|Q[c,blue7]|},
  cell{3}{1} = {r=3}{m}, % multirow
  row{1} = {font=\bfseries},
}
  \hline
    ColumnOne & ColumnTwo \
  \hline
    First data & 932      \
  \hline
    More data  & 239      \
  \cline{2}
               & 137      \
  \cline{2}
               & 319      \
  \hline
    Last data  & 132      \
  \hline
\end{tblr}
\end{document}

F. Pantigny · Answer 3 · 2021-09-18T08:30:03.090

The environment {NiceTabular} of nicematrix is a solution to that problem. The commands \cline are respected. Moreover, \cline{2} can be used as a syntactic shortcut for \cline{2-2}.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{nicematrix}
\begin{document}
\begin{NiceTabular}{|c|c|}
 \CodeBefore 
   \columncolor{red!15}{1} 
   \columncolor{blue!15}{2}
 \Body
  \hline
  \RowStyle{\bfseries}
  ColumnOne    & ColumnTwo \ \hline
  First data             & 932 \ \hline
  \Block{3-1}{More data} & 239 \ \cline{2-2}
                         & 137 \ \cline{2}
                         & 319 \ \hline
  Last data              & 132 \ \hline
\end{NiceTabular}
\end{document}

In fact, in this case, it's possible to simplify the code. With the key hvlines, all the horizontal and vertical rules will be drawn except in the blocks (created by the commands \Block of nicematrix). That's what we need.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{nicematrix}
\begin{document}
\begin{NiceTabular}{cc}[hvlines]
 \CodeBefore
   \columncolor{red!15}{1} 
   \columncolor{blue!15}{2}
 \Body
   \RowStyle{\bfseries}
   ColumnOne              & ColumnTwo \ 
   First data             & 932 \ 
   \Block{3-1}{More data} & 239 \ 
                          & 137 \ 
                          & 319 \ 
   Last data              & 132 \ 
\end{NiceTabular}
\end{document}

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 27 '21 at 17:20

I'm late to the party. And, to be sure, this fix is hacky and does not provide a solution without some fiddling. It did solve my problem fairly cleanly, and since I found this discussion, I'll add my answer here.

It appears that the color fill on the cell can be "tricked" into not covering up the cline by adding a carriage return and then taking away some vertical space, such that the line is left in place while the cell is slightly moved downward. I had to compile your code a few times with the fix in place, to get the correct vertical spacing of -4.1mm, but it avoids a lot of rework if one needs a quick fix.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage{multirow}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{|>{\columncolor{red}}c|>{\columncolor{blue}}c|}
    \hline
    \bfseries ColumnOne & \bfseries ColumnTwo\ \hline
    First data & 932\ \hline
     & 239\ \cline{2-2}\[-4.1mm]
     & 137\ \cline{2-2}\[-4.1mm]
    \multirow{-3}{*}{More data} & 319\ \hline
    Last data & 132\ \hline
  \end{tabular}
\end{document}

Result:

The latecomers are always the coolest. This is a beautifully easy fix. It may not look pretty to the programmer but it's the easy-peasiest answer in the bunch and it works perfectly. — , Jun 08 '22 at 14:17

Cellcolor overwrites partial horizontal lines (\cline)

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