CkEditor5 Table Colors

Customizable color palettes for CkEditor 5 table and table cell background and border colors.

Machine name: ckeditor5_table_colors.

Requirements

• Drupal 11 or 12
• Core CKEditor 5 module (ckeditor5)
• A text format that includes the Insert table button

Installation

composer require drupal/ckeditor5_table_colors
drush en ckeditor5_table_colors -y
drush cr

Where to configure it

1. Go to Configuration → Content authoring → Text formats and editors.
2. Edit a format that uses CkEditor 5 (for example Full HTML).
3. Ensure Insert table is in the active toolbar.
4. Open the Table Colors plugin settings (CkEditor 5 plugin settings).

Features

• Use CkEditor5 default colors — keep the built-in CkEditor palette alongside your custom colors
• Use CkEditor5 color picker — let editors pick arbitrary colors (hex) in the dropdown
• Table color columns — number of columns in the color grid
• Table color document colors — how many "already used in document" colors to list (0 hides that section)
• Custom colors — add labeled colors for background and/or border

Custom colors

Click Add Table Color, then set:

• Color label — accessible name shown in the UI
• Color — swatch value
• Type — Background Color and/or Border Color

Save the text format when finished.

Using it while editing content

On any field that uses that text format (including nested CkEditor paragraphs):

1. Edit the field / paragraph.
2. Use Insert table in the CkEditor toolbar.
3. Select the table or a cell, then open table / cell properties to apply background or border colors from your palette.

Colors come from the text-format configuration above (defaults + custom entries). Disabling the color picker removes free-form picking and leaves only the configured palette.

When to use it

• Editorial sites that need brand-safe table/cell colors
• Text formats where Tables are already enabled and you want a controlled palette instead of (or in addition to) a free color picker

Attribution

Based on ideas from CkEditor 5 Plugin Pack maintained by:

• Wojciech Kukowski (salmonek)
• Dawid Olszewski (dolszewski)

Use the issue queue for bugs and feature requests.