Color Table Cells

Color any table cell in Obsidian. Supports both manual coloring and automatic rules based on text, numbers, and regex.

By default, colors appear in Reading Mode. You can enable coloring in Live Preview Mode from settings.

Manual Coloring

1. Switch to Reading Mode
2. Right click- any table cell
3. Pick a background or text color

Currently, the manual coloring is a bit unstable, and the coloring does not always apply properly across views. The rule based coloring works much more reliably.

For best experience, I'd recommend not introducing manual colors in a rule-based coloring table.

Automatic Coloring with Rules

Rules let you color cells, rows, or entire columns automatically based on what they contain.

No more manual formatting for large tables!

Simple Rules

A simple rule uses a single condition of these properties:

TARGET What gets colored

• Color cell
• Color row
• Color column

WHEN Where the plugin checks

• Any cell
• All cells
• No cell
• First row
• Column header

MATCH How the comparison works

• Is
• Is not
• Is Regex
• Contains
• Does not contain
• Starts with
• Ends with
• Does not start with
• Does not end with
• Is empty
• Is not empty
• Is greater than
• Is less than
• Is greater than or equal to
• Is less than or equal to

VALUE What it looks for: text, number, or regex pattern

COLOR Your background and text color (Null by Default).

Example To highlight all cells that contain URGENT:

• Target: Color cell
• When: Any cell
• Match: Contains
• Value: URGENT
• Color: Red background, white text

Advanced Rules

Advanced rules let you stack multiple conditions together. The conditions you set (Any, All, or None) must match before the rule applies.

Example Color a cell green only when:

• It contains a number
• The number is greater than 100

Refreshing Table Colors

Changes you make in the plugin settings apply immediately. If you ever see outdated colors due to Obsidian not updating the table view, you can force a refresh using the table colors refresh button in the ribbon or the status bar icon.

Installation

This plugin is currently NOT in Obsidian Community Plugins.

For manual installation, download the main.js, styles.css and manifest.json files from Releases and create a folder with the name "color-table-cells" in your vault/.obsidian/plugins/ folder and put the files there.

Mobile Support

Yes. Everything works on Obsidian Mobile. Manual coloring and rule based coloring both apply normally.

Cool Stuff

Allows image embed / hyperlink as the match for column headers for coloring too!