[Tex/LaTex] How to divide LaTeX table cells vertically

tables

I want my table to have separated cells. Basically double lines but I can't figure how to have horizontal lines disconnected. I tried \hline and \cline but those connect too.

This is best I can do:

This is how I want my table to look:

\begin{tabular}{|c||c||c||c|}
  \hline
  \multicolumn{2}{|c||}{First Cell}&
  Second Cell&
  Third Cell\\
  \hline
  \hline
  \begin{tabular}{@{}l@{}} Data\\ Data\\ Data\\
  \end{tabular}&
  \begin{tabular}{@{}l@{}}
    Data\\
    Data\\
    Data\\
  \end{tabular}&
  \begin{tabular}{@{}l@{}}
    Data\\
    Data\\
    Data\\
  \end{tabular}&
  \begin{tabular}{@{}l@{}}
    Data\\
    Data\\
    Data\\
  \end{tabular}\\

  \hline

\end{tabular}

Best Answer

You can achieve this with the hhline package:

Result

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hhline}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{|c||c||c||c|}
  \hhline{|--||-||-|}
  \multicolumn{2}{|c||}{First Cell}&
  Second Cell&
  Third Cell\\
  \hhline{=:t:=::=::=:}
  \begin{tabular}{@{}l@{}} Data\\ Data\\ Data\\
  \end{tabular}&
  \begin{tabular}{@{}l@{}}
    Data\\
    Data\\
    Data\\
  \end{tabular}&
  \begin{tabular}{@{}l@{}}
    Data\\
    Data\\
    Data\\
  \end{tabular}&
  \begin{tabular}{@{}l@{}}
    Data\\
    Data\\
    Data\\
  \end{tabular}\\
  \hhline{=::=::=::=:}
  More data &
  More data &
  More data &
  More data\\
  \hhline{|-||-||-||-|}

\end{tabular}
\end{document}

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The horizontal partial lines are done with the \cline command. For the vertical lines you have to use \multicolumn to specify new column properties.

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\begin{document}
  \begin{tabular}{*6{c}}\hline
    Col 1 & Col 2 & Col 3 & Col 4 & Col 5 & Col 6 \\\hline
    bla   & bla   & bla   & bla   & bla   & bla \\
    bla   & bla   & bla   & bla   & bla   & bla \\ \cline{1-3}
    \multicolumn{1}{|c}{ble} & ble & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{ble} & bla & bla & bla \\ \cline{1-3}
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  \end{tabular}
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Variable-width horizontal rules with \cline intrude cell text

Both problems are related. \cline has to support several \clines in a row, e.g.:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
  \begin{tabular}{*{5}{c}}
    1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5\\
    \cline{1-1}\cline{3-3}\cline{5-5}
    A & B & C & D & E
  \end{tabular}
\end{document}

$Example \cline$

Therefore \cline cannot move down like \hline, the definition of \cline is (latex.ltx):

\def\cline#1{\@cline#1\@nil}
\def\@cline#1-#2\@nil{%
  \omit
  \@multicnt#1%
  \advance\@multispan\m@ne
  \ifnum\@multicnt=\@ne\@firstofone{&\omit}\fi
  \@multicnt#2%
  \advance\@multicnt-#1%
  \advance\@multispan\@ne
  \leaders\hrule\@height\arrayrulewidth\hfill
  \cr
  \noalign{\vskip-\arrayrulewidth}}

In the last step \cline moves back to the original vertical position.

But the vertical space for the line can be added after the \clines, e.g.:

\cline{...}\cline{...}\noalign{\vskip\arrayrulewidth}

Applied to your example, it can be added to macro \whline. This fixes also the problem with \cellcolor:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{colortbl}

\begin{document}

\newcolumntype{I}{!{\vrule width 3pt}}
\newlength\savedwidth

\newcommand\whline[1]{%
  \noalign{%
    \global\savedwidth\arrayrulewidth\global\arrayrulewidth 6pt%
  }%
  \cline{#1}%
  \noalign{\vskip\arrayrulewidth}%
  \noalign{\global\arrayrulewidth\savedwidth}%
}
\begin{tabular}{|cIc|c|}\hline
 A & B & C \\ \hline
 X & \cellcolor{red}Y & Z \\ \whline{1-3}
 \cellcolor{green}100 & 10 & 1 \\ \hline
\end{tabular}

\end{document}

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