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How can I have a table with the following specifications:

  1. The top and bottom lines are bold and all other horizontal and vertical lines are normal.
  2. The whole table lines (including top and bottom lines) are in red color.
  3. The whole table have a yellow background.
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Here's a possibility using the tabu package:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabu}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}

\begin{document}

\noindent\begin{tabu}{| l | l | l |}
\taburowcolors1{yellow!90!black..yellow!90!black} 
\taburulecolor{red}
\tabucline[1pt]- 
column1a & column2a & column3a \\
\tabucline- 
column1b & column2b & column3b \\
\tabucline- 
column1c & column2c & column3c \\
\tabucline- 
column1d & column2d & column3d \\
\tabucline[1pt]- 
\end{tabu}

\end{document}

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As a personal suggestion, vertical rules are not necessary and your table will look better without them.

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{colortbl}

\arrayrulecolor{red}
\def\widehline{%
\noalign{\global\dimen1 \arrayrulewidth
\global\arrayrulewidth8\arrayrulewidth}%
\hline
\noalign{\global\arrayrulewidth\dimen1 }}

\begin{document}

\colorbox{yellow}{%
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|}
\widehline
1&2\\
\hline
aa&bb\\
aaa&bbb\\
\hline
3&4\\
\widehline
\end{tabular}}

\end{document}
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  • Possibly \fboxsep=0pt?
    – egreg
    Dec 17, 2012 at 0:09
  • @egreg, possibly, or possibly the OP likes having a border with the yellow being bigger than the table. As @egreg hints if you want the yellow background tight to the table, locally set \fboxsep to zero.
    – David Carlisle
    Dec 17, 2012 at 0:13
  • How can I have vertically centered cells?
    – smh
    Dec 17, 2012 at 10:37
  • Well that is a completely different question. Perhaps m column type from the array package.
    – David Carlisle
    Dec 17, 2012 at 10:54
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Well, in this simple case tabularray can compete in code efficiency with NiceTabular :-)

\documentclass[border=3.141592]{standalone}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{tabularray}

\begin{document}
\begin{tblr}{cells ={c, yellow!30},
             hlines={red}, hline{1,5}={1pt},
             vlines={red},
             }
% body
  un     & deux     & trois  & quatre \\
  cinq   & six      & sept   & huit \\
  neuf   & dix      & onze   & douze \\
  treize & quatorze & quinze & seize \\
\end{tblr}
\end{document}

after one compilation the result is almost the same:

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Edit: With version 2021M (2021-08-01) the table preaqble can be simplified to:

\begin{tblr}{cells ={c, yellow!30},
             hlines={red}, hline{1,Z}={1pt}, % <--- observe Z, it indicate the last line in table
             vlines={red},
             }
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  • Unfortunately, in Adobe Reader, at some levels of zoom, some vertical rules disappear.
    – F. Pantigny
    Aug 2, 2021 at 16:56
  • @F.Pantigny, this may be a case, so as I stated in my comment below your answer, NiceTabular is the best solution :-)
    – Zarko
    Aug 2, 2021 at 18:13
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With {NiceTabular} of nicematrix.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{nicematrix,tikz}

\begin{document}
\begin{NiceTabular}{cccc}[rules/color=red,hvlines]
\CodeBefore
  \arraycolor{yellow}
\Body
\Hline[tikz={red, very thick}]
  un     & deux     & trois  & quatre \\
  cinq   & six      & sept   & huit \\
  neuf   & dix      & onze   & douze \\
  treize & quatorze & quinze & seize \\
\Hline[tikz={red, very thick}]
\end{NiceTabular}
\end{document}

You need several compilations (because nicematrix uses PGF/Tikz nodes under the hood).

Output of the above code

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  • Simple in the best solution! (+1)
    – Zarko
    Aug 2, 2021 at 11:56

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