I'd like to fill the cells of a table with a background color. How can this be done?
[Tex/LaTex] How to fill table cells with a background color
backgroundscolortables
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\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
...
\begin{tabular}{...}
\cellcolor{blue} foo & \cellcolor{red} bar\\
...
There is also a command for coloring whole columns and rows.
Please check out the (excellent!) Embedded Objects manual that comes with Lyx (directly available from the Help menu). Section 2.11 describes in detail how to color tables, table cells, and cell backgrounds.
As Martin has already pointed out, the solution is based on colortbl:
which leads to this PDF output:
Best Answer
The xcolor provides support for coloring table rows in a variety of patterns. The colortbl can color rows, columns, cells and rules.
There is a nice article by Lapo Filippo Mori in the PracTeX Journal that describes the usage of both packages. Scroll down to section 4.