Table of Contents – Fancy Table of Contents

table of contents

How can I make a ToC like the following?

enter image description here
MWE:

‎\documentclass[10pt,a4paper,openany]{book}‎‎
‎\usepackage{titletoc,xcolor}‎
‎‎
\titlecontents{chapter}% <section-type>
[0pt]% <left>
{}% <above-code>
{\fcolorbox{blue}{blue}{\color{white}\bfseries\chaptername~ \thecontentslabel}}% <numbered-entry-format>
{}% <numberless-entry-format>
{\bfseries\hfill\contentspage}% <filler-page-format>

\begin{document}‎
‎\tableofcontents‎‎
‎
‎\chapter{First Chapter}‎
‎\section{First Section}‎‎‎
‎\section{Second Section}‎‎
‎
‎\chapter{Second Chapter}‎
‎\section{First Section}‎‎
‎\section{Second Section}‎‎
sample
\end{document}‎

Best Answer

A first trial version, requires some more setup for the chapter title line. (I used the traditional \addcontentsline way, not titlesec)

Don't use too long lines for the chapter lines! I've added just one to show the negative effect of this.

\documentclass[10pt,a4paper,openany]{book}
\usepackage{tocloft}

\usepackage[x11names,dvipsnames,svgnames]{xcolor}

\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}


\newtcbox{\chapternumberbox}[1][]{%
  colback=blue!50!black,
  colupper={white},
  fontupper={\bfseries\large},
  valign=center,
  size=small,
  nobeforeafter,
  equal height group=chaptertoc,
  #1,
}




\newtcolorbox{chapternamebox}[1][]{%
  enhanced jigsaw,
  valign=center,
  interior style={left color={white!30!blue},right color={white!90!blue}},
  colframe={gray},
  boxrule={1pt},
  colupper={black},
  size=small,
  fontupper={\bfseries\large},
  nobeforeafter,
  equal height group=chaptertoc,
  #1,
}

% A wrapper command
\newcommand{\mychapternamebox}[3][]{%
  \begin{chapternamebox}[#1]
    #2\hfill#3%
  \end{chapternamebox}%
}


\usepackage{xpatch}

\makeatletter
\xpatchcmd{\@chapter}{%
  \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}%
  {\protect\numberline{\thechapter}#1}%
}{%
  \addtocontents{toc}{\protect\cftpagenumbersoff{chapter}}
  \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\protect\chapternumberbox{\protect\chaptername{} \thechapter}\protect\mychapternamebox[width={9.8cm}]{#1}{\thepage}}%%
  \addtocontents{toc}{\protect\cftpagenumberson{chapter}}%
}{}{}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents

\chapter{First Chapter}
\section{First Section}‎‎
\section{Second Section}
\chapter{Second Chapter}
\section{First Section}
\section{Second Section}
\chapter{Third Chapter with an excessively long title that should be avoided!}‎‎
\end{document}

Update with better spacing

\documentclass[10pt,a4paper,openany]{book}
\usepackage{tocloft}
\usepackage[x11names,dvipsnames,svgnames]{xcolor}

\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}
\usepackage{xparse}
\usepackage{array}

\newcolumntype{R}[1]{>{\raggedleft\arraybackslash}p{#1}}
\makeatletter


\tcbset{%
  chapternumberbox/.style={%
    colframe=black,
    colback={blue!60!white},
    colupper={white},
    fontupper={\bfseries\normalsize},
    halign=center,
    valign=center,
    size=small,
    nobeforeafter,
    equal height group=chaptertoc,
    left skip=0pt,
    right skip=0pt,
  },
  chapternamebox/.style={%
    left skip=0pt,
    right skip=0pt,
    enhanced jigsaw,
    valign=center,
    interior style={left color={blue!60!white},right color={blue!15!white}},
    colframe={black},
    boxrule={1pt},
    colupper={black},
    size=small,
    fontupper={\bfseries\normalsize},
    nobeforeafter,
    equal height group=chaptertoc,
  }
}

\newtcolorbox{chapternumberboxinternal}[1][]{%
  chapternumberbox,
  #1
}

\newtcolorbox{chapternamebox}[1][]{%
  chapternamebox,
  #1,
}

\NewDocumentCommand{\chapternumberbox}{O{}m}{%
  \begin{chapternumberboxinternal}[#1,width={\cftchapnumwidth}]%-\kvtcb@left@rule-\kvtcb@right@rule}]
    #2%
  \end{chapternumberboxinternal}%
}



\NewDocumentCommand{\mychapternamebox}{O{}+mm}{%
  \begin{chapternamebox}[#1,width={\dimexpr\tocwidth-\cftchapnumwidth+\marginparsep}]
    \begin{tabular}{@{}p{\kvtcb@leftupper}@{}@{}p{\dimexpr\tocwidth-\cftchapnumwidth-\@pnumwidth-\kvtcb@leftupper-\marginparsep}@{}@{}R{\dimexpr\@pnumwidth}@{}@{}p{\kvtcb@rightupper}@{}}
      &  #2&#3
    \end{tabular}
  \end{chapternamebox}%
}


\usepackage{xpatch}
\usepackage{xprintlen}

\newlength\tocwidth

\renewcommand{\cftchapnumwidth}{2.5cm}
\setlength{\cftchapindent}{0pt}



\AtBeginDocument{%
  \setlength{\tocwidth}{\linewidth}
}



\xpatchcmd{\@chapter}{%
  \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}%
  {\protect\numberline{\thechapter}#1}%
}{%
  \addtocontents{toc}{\protect\cftpagenumbersoff{chapter}}
  \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\chapternumberbox{\protect\chaptername\ \thechapter}\protect\mychapternamebox[]{#1}{\thepage}}%%
  \addtocontents{toc}{\protect\cftpagenumberson{chapter}}%
}{}{}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\chapter{First Chapter}
\section{First Section}‎‎
\section{Second Section}
\chapter{Second Chapter}
\section{First Section}
\section{Second Section}
\chapter[Theory on Brontosaurs]{Third Chapter with an excessively long title that should be avoided!}‎‎
\end{document}

Update for vietnam package

\documentclass[10pt,a4paper,openany]{book}

\usepackage{tocloft}
\usepackage[x11names,dvipsnames,svgnames]{xcolor}

\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}
\usepackage{xparse}
\usepackage{array}




\newcolumntype{R}[1]{>{\raggedleft\arraybackslash}p{#1}}
\makeatletter


\tcbset{%
  chapternumberbox/.style={%
    colframe=black,
    colback={blue!60!white},
    colupper={white},
    fontupper={\bfseries\normalsize},
    halign=center,
    valign=center,
    size=small,
    nobeforeafter,
    equal height group=chaptertoc,
    left skip=0pt,
    right skip=0pt,
  },
  chapternamebox/.style={%
    left skip=0pt,
    right skip=0pt,
    enhanced jigsaw,
    valign=center,
    interior style={left color={blue!60!white},right color={blue!15!white}},
    colframe={black},
    boxrule={1pt},
    colupper={black},
    size=small,
    fontupper={\bfseries\normalsize},
    nobeforeafter,
    equal height group=chaptertoc,
  }
}

\newtcolorbox{chapternumberboxinternal}[1][]{%
  chapternumberbox,
  #1
}

\newtcolorbox{chapternamebox}[1][]{%
  chapternamebox,
  #1,
}

\NewDocumentCommand{\chapternumberbox}{O{}m}{%
  \begin{chapternumberboxinternal}[#1,width={\cftchapnumwidth}]%-\kvtcb@left@rule-\kvtcb@right@rule}]
    #2%
  \end{chapternumberboxinternal}%
}



\NewDocumentCommand{\mychapternamebox}{O{}+mm}{%
  \begin{chapternamebox}[#1,width={\dimexpr\tocwidth-\cftchapnumwidth+\marginparsep}]
    \begin{tabular}{@{}p{\kvtcb@leftupper}@{}@{}p{\dimexpr\tocwidth-\cftchapnumwidth-\@pnumwidth-\kvtcb@leftupper-\marginparsep}@{}@{}R{\dimexpr\@pnumwidth}@{}@{}p{\kvtcb@rightupper}@{}}
      &  #2&#3
    \end{tabular}
  \end{chapternamebox}%
}


\usepackage{xpatch}
\usepackage{xprintlen}

\newlength\tocwidth

\renewcommand{\cftchapnumwidth}{2.5cm}
\setlength{\cftchapindent}{0pt}



\AtBeginDocument{%
  \setlength{\tocwidth}{\linewidth}
}


\xpatchcmd{\@chapter}{%
  \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}%
  {\protect\numberline{\thechapter}#1}%
}{%
  \addtocontents{toc}{\protect\cftpagenumbersoff{chapter}}
  \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\protect\chapternumberbox{\protect\chaptername\ \thechapter}\protect\mychapternamebox[]{#1}{\thepage}}%%
  \addtocontents{toc}{\protect\cftpagenumberson{chapter}}%
}{\typeout{Patch Success}}{\typeout{Patch Failure}}

\makeatother

\usepackage[utf8]{vietnam}
\usepackage[unicode]{hyperref}


\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\chapter{First Chapter}
\section{First Section}
\section{Second Section}
\chapter{Second Chapter}
\typeout{Hello}
\section{First Section}
\section{Second Section}
\chapter[Theory on Brontosaurs]{Third Chapter with an excessively long title that should be avoided!}
\end{document}

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Beamer – How to Create a Fancy Table of Contents

A possible overkilling solution with TikZ:

\documentclass[svgnames]{beamer}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}

\pgfdeclarehorizontalshading{section shading}{2cm}{
color(0cm)=(LightSlateGrey);
color(2cm)=(gray!7);
color(3cm)=(LightSlateGrey!15)
}
\usepackage{tikz}
\tikzset{section number/.style={
    draw=none,
    rectangle,    
    left color=gray!40,
    right color=gray!20!black,
    minimum size=1.5em,
    text=white,
  },
  section/.style={
    draw=none,
    rectangle,    
    shading=section shading,
    minimum height=1.5em,
    minimum width=0.9\textwidth,
    text width=0.9\textwidth,
    text=black,
    align=left
  }
}

\makeatletter
\setbeamertemplate{section in toc}{
  \ifnum\the\beamer@tempcount<10 %check to pad with 0
    \tikz[baseline=-0.5ex]\node[section number]{\,0\inserttocsectionnumber};%
  \else
    \tikz[baseline=-0.5ex]\node[section number]{\,\inserttocsectionnumber};%
  \fi
  \,%
  \tikz[baseline=-0.5ex]\node[section]{\inserttocsection};
}
\makeatother

\begin{document}


\frame{
\tableofcontents
}

\section{A very long title for this section}
\frame{}
\section{Foo bar}
\frame{}
\section{Foo bar}
\frame{}
\section{Foo bar}
\frame{}
\section{Foo bar}
\frame{}
\section{Foo bar}
\frame{}
\section{Foo bar}
\frame{}
\section{Another long title}
\frame{}
\section{Foo bar}
\frame{}
\section{Foo bar}
\frame{}
\section{Foo bar}
\frame{}
\end{document}

The result:

enter image description here

Notes: I think it is possible to do in a more elegant way with beamercolorboxes. The section number is displayed a bit shifted on the right (as per the initial picture) after a check on the section number: this is done in order to place a 0 in front of the section number in case it is below 10.

[Tex/LaTex] Page number on the left with book class

Here's a solution that uses the titletoc package; the important part of the code is

% chapter formatting in toc
\titlecontents{chapter}
[0.0cm]             % left margin
{}                  % above code
{%                  % numbered format
{\llap{\thecontentspage\hspace{.5cm}}\thecontentslabel~}%
}%
{}         % unnumbered format
{}         % filler-page-format, e.g dots

screenshot

Here's a complete MWE to play with.

% arara: pdflatex
% arara: pdflatex
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{titletoc}

% chapter formatting in toc
\titlecontents{chapter}
[0.0cm]             % left margin
{}                  % above code
{%                  % numbered format
{\llap{\thecontentspage\hspace{.5cm}}\thecontentslabel~}%
}%
{}         % unnumbered format
{}         % filler-page-format, e.g dots

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents

\chapter{mychapter} 
\section{mysection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\section{mysection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\chapter{mychapter} 
\section{mysection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\section{mysection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\chapter{mychapter} 
\end{document}

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Related Solutions

Beamer – How to Create a Fancy Table of Contents

[Tex/LaTex] Page number on the left with book class

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