revtex4-1 and colortbl doesn't fill cells

Question

The MWE below shows that the cellcolor command doesn't properly fill a table cell in revtex4-1 where it would do so in a simple article. Can anyone help me get fills that extend to the boundaries of my cells in revtex4-1?

documentclass{revtex4-1}
usepackage{colortbl}
begin{document}
begin{tabular}{ |c|l|l| } hline
rowcolor{red} A    & B     & C     \ hline
Hello World         & other     & cellcolor{blue}stuff\ hline
end{tabular}
end{document}

David Carlisle · Accepted Answer

revtex inserts some extra tabcolsep spaces and so add three lines to compensate:

documentclass{revtex4-1}
usepackage{colortbl}

makeatletter

defCT@@do@color{%
      globalletCT@do@colorrelax
            @tempdimawdz@
            advance@tempdima@tempdimb
            advance@tempdima@tempdimc
    advance@tempdimbtabcolsep
    advance@tempdimctabcolsep
    advance@tempdima2tabcolsep
            kern-@tempdimb
            leadersvrule
    %^^A                     @heightp@@depthp@
                    hskip@tempdima@plus  1fill
            kern-@tempdimc
            hskip-wdz@ @plus -1fill }
    makeatother
    begin{document}

begin{tabular}{ |c|l|l| } hline
    rowcolor{red} A    & B     & C     \ hline
    Hello World         & other     & cellcolor{blue}stuff\ hline
    end{tabular}
    end{document}

F. Pantigny · Answer

The problem is still present with the class revtex-4.2.
With the environment {NiceTabular} of nicematrix (similar to {tabular} of array), you have directly the output you want. In fact, the output is better than with the class article because the rules won't seem to vanish in some PDF viewers at some levels of zoom (as in the picture of the OP).
 documentclass{revtex4-2}
 usepackage{nicematrix}
 begin{document}
 begin{NiceTabular}{ |c|l|l| }[colortbl-like] hline
 rowcolor{red} A    & B     & C     \ hline
 Hello World         & other     & cellcolor{blue}stuff\ hline
 end{NiceTabular}
 end{document}

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

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