How to Color Only a Table Cell in LaTeX

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Here below is an example showing how to color only a specific cell using xcolor's LaTeX table option. xcolor loads the colortbl pack­age which al­lows rows and columns to be coloured, apart from in­di­vid­ual cells. Color names are followed by ! without space, and a number (e.g., green! 35) determines the respective color intensity.

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1. \documentclass{article}
2. \usepackage[table]{xcolor}
3. \begin{document}
4. \begin{tabular}{|l|c|r|}
5.  \hline
6.  \cellcolor{red!15} Welcome  & \cellcolor{magenta!35} to Open  & \cellcolor{gray!25} Discussion Forums \\
7.  \hline
8. \end{tabular}
9. \end{document}

You can use booktabs for attractive, high quality optimized LaTeX tables.

From an example above, the output table should look as shown below: