How to create / set custom color of table cells and borders in iText 7?

Question

I need to create a table which has custom colored cells and borders. There are a few constants defined in the Color class, but what I need a custom color. I need #a6cb0b as the background color for the header and border lines with color code #cccccc. How do I set them?

Table table = new Table(new float[]{1,1,1});
Cell cell = new Cell();
cell.add(new Paragraph("TITLE"));
cell.setBackgroundColor(Color.???);
table.addCell(cell);
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Answer 1

The best way to find out how to create colors, is to check the API docs . When you go to the page that describes the 'Color' class, you see that it has several subclasses:

• DeviceGray
• DeviceRgb
• DeviceCmyk
• ...

It seems that you want to create an RGB color, hence you need DeviceRgb :

Color headerBg = new DeviceRgb(0xA6, 0xCB, 0x0B);
Color lineColor = new DeviceRgb(0xCC, 0xCC, 0xCC);

You can use the color object to set the color of borders, backgrounds, etc...