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I trying to create a cover page using tikz and I would like to position a tabular element in a colored tikz rectangle both horizontally left justified and vertically centered.

In the attached example the tubular is being centered horizontally, as well at vertically. How do I left justify the tabular, whilst keeping the vertical centering in the rect node?

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Stuart

 \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article} \usepackage{tikz} \begin{document} \thispagestyle{empty} \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay] \node (rect) [shape=rectangle, fill=red, minimum height=40mm, minimum width=\paperwidth, anchor=south west] at (current page.south west) {}; \node [anchor=west] at (rect.center) { \begin{tabular}{|l|r|} A & B \\ \end{tabular} }; \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}
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  • Left justified means flushed to the right margin or flushed to the right edge of the paper? Commented Sep 28, 2015 at 23:04

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Since it's not clear from the question whether "left justified" means flushed to the right margin or flushed to the right edge of the paper, I provide both options; locate the node at (rect.east) for the formaer or at (current page text area.east|-rect.east) (requires the tikzpagenodes package) for the latter. The showframe package is just to provide a visual guide to the page layout:

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article} \usepackage{tikzpagenodes} \usepackage{showframe} \begin{document} \thispagestyle{empty} \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay] \node (rect) [shape=rectangle, fill=red, minimum height=40mm, minimum width=\paperwidth, anchor=south west] at (current page.south west) {}; \node [anchor=east,inner sep=0pt] at (rect.east) {% \begin{tabular}{|l|r|} A & B \\ \end{tabular}% }; \node [anchor=east,inner sep=0pt] at (current page text area.east|-rect.east) {% \begin{tabular}{|l|r|} A & B \\ \end{tabular}% }; \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}

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