Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Background Color for Table Cells

[devilsadvocate]

Dear latexians,

Suppose if I have a table as follows,

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\begin{table}[!b]
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.3}
\caption{Account of My Goats}
\label{tab:goat_acc_table}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|c||c|}
   \hline
   \textbf{\textit{Color}}  & \textbf{\textit{Number}} \\
   \hline
   White & 1 \\
   \hline
   Black & 2 \\
   \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

Now if I want to invert the color of first row of my table (white fonts with black background), what shall I do ?

Regards,

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

you could use the colortbl package.

Stefan

[devilsadvocate]

Thanks for the info. Any alternative package? Just used this package and the output is out of the world! so much that it is too unusual for IEEE Transaction format.

Regards,

[localghost]

It works even with the IEEEtran class. The below example gives some inspiration. But it looks really ugly.

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\documentclass[11pt]{IEEEtran}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}  % 'table' option loads »colortbl«

% from the UK TeX FAQ
\newcolumntype{$}{>{\global\let\currentrowstyle\relax}}
\newcolumntype{^}{>{\currentrowstyle}}
\newcommand{\rowstyle}[1]{%
  \gdef\currentrowstyle{#1}%
  #1\ignorespaces
}

\begin{document}  
  \begin{table}[!ht]
    \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.3}
    \caption{Account of My Goats}\label{tab:goat-acc-table}
    \centering
    \begin{tabular}{|$c||^c|}\hline
      \rowstyle{\bfseries\itshape}
      Color  & Number \\ \hline
      \rowcolor{black}
      \rowstyle{\color{white}\bfseries}
      White & 1 \\ \hline
      Black & 2 \\ \hline
    \end{tabular}
  \end{table}
\end{document}

Note that the sequence of \rowcolor and \rowstyle is important here.


Thorsten

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I think inverted text is unusual, this kind of emphasizing is harder to read. It's used in fancy design books though.

The output of colortbl depends on how you use it. You could also use \fcolorbox or \colorbox instead.

Stefan

[devilsadvocate]

Hello localghost, now this worked. At least looks better than before. However, Stafan's statement is very correct. I would like to stay as I was. In any case changed looks very unusual in comparison to existing articles and will throw my article out of league, which I do not want.

Thanks for giving a wing of my idea. Although it did not went well with its look and feel, but I learnt a lot.

Regards,