Table with rounded corners?

You can use a TikZ node with inner sep=0pt that holds the table, and then draw a rectangle around it.

Update: You can enclose this TikZ/tabular construct in a table environment to add a table caption and label to it.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage[bf]{caption}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}
\caption{A table with rounded corners}
\centering
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node (table) [inner sep=0pt] {
\begin{tabular}{l|l}
  \multicolumn{2}{c}{Team sheet} \\
  \hline
  GK & Paul Robinson \\
  LB & Lucus Radebe \\
  DC & Michael Duberry \\
  DC & Dominic Matteo \\
  RB & Didier Domi \\
  MC & David Batty \\
  MC & Eirik Bakke \\
  MC & Jody Morris \\
  FW & Jamie McMaster \\
  ST & Alan Smith \\
  ST & Mark Viduka \\
\end{tabular}
};
\draw [rounded corners=.5em] (table.north west) rectangle (table.south east);
\end{tikzpicture}
\label{tab1}
\end{table}

Table~\ref{tab1} can be referenced like any other.
\end{document}

table with TikZ rounded corners, caption and label


All (I think?) the previous solutions don't work all that well in combination with coloured cell backgrounds: the backgrounds will stick out over the prettily rounded corners.

The solution is to apply clipping. And the difficulty with that is that the clipping path needs to be set before the table is drawn. A.f.a.I.k., the only way of achieving this is saving the whole table into a box first, then setting the clipping path accordingly. Just adding clip to the TikZ node didn't do it for me at least.

Since this amounts to quite a bit of boilerplate around the table, you could put the whole thing into an environment, and use the environ package to capture the table content conveniently.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[dvipsnames,table]{xcolor}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{environ}
\usepackage{tikz}

\newsavebox{\tablebox}
\definecolor{tablecolor}{named}{ForestGreen}

\NewEnviron{rndtable}[1]{%
  \addtolength{\extrarowheight}{1ex}%
  \rowcolors{2}{tablecolor!20}{tablecolor!40}%
  \savebox{\tablebox}{%
    \begin{tabular}{#1}%
      \BODY%
    \end{tabular}}%
  \begin{tikzpicture}
    \begin{scope}
      \clip[rounded corners=1ex] (0,-\dp\tablebox) -- (\wd\tablebox,-\dp\tablebox) -- (\wd\tablebox,\ht\tablebox) -- (0,\ht\tablebox) -- cycle;
      \node at (0,-\dp\tablebox) [anchor=south west,inner sep=0pt]{\usebox{\tablebox}};
    \end{scope}
    \draw[rounded corners=1ex] (0,-\dp\tablebox) -- (\wd\tablebox,-\dp\tablebox) -- (\wd\tablebox,\ht\tablebox) -- (0,\ht\tablebox) -- cycle;
  \end{tikzpicture}
}

\begin{document}

\begin{rndtable}{l|l}
    \multicolumn{2}{c}{\cellcolor{tablecolor}\color{white} Team sheet} \\ \hline
    GK & Paul Robinson \\
    LB & Lucus Radebe \\
    DC & Michael Duberry \\
    DC & Dominic Matteo \\
    RB & Didier Domi \\
    MC & David Batty \\
    MC & Eirik Bakke \\
    MC & Jody Morris \\
    FW & Jamie McMaster \\
    ST & Alan Smith \\
    ST & Mark Viduka \\
  \end{rndtable}

\end{document}

Looks like this:

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tcolorbox includes options tabularx and tabularx* which can draw framed tables with rounded corners.

The main problem will be to decide table width. All tcolorboxes use \linewidth as default horizontal box size, liketabularx and tabularx*. Therefore, tables narrower than \linewidth need to use manually calculated widths.

An example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array,tabularx}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}
\usepackage[bf]{caption}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}
\caption{A table with rounded corners}
\centering
\rowcolors{1}{black!30}{white}
\begin{tcolorbox}[enhanced, width=.5\linewidth, tabularx={>{\centering\arraybackslash}l|>{\centering\arraybackslash}X}, title={Team sheet}]
  GK & Paul Robinson \\
  LB & Lucus Radebe \\
  DC & Michael Duberry \\
  DC & Dominic Matteo \\
  RB & Didier Domi \\
  MC & David Batty \\
  MC & Eirik Bakke \\
  MC & Jody Morris \\
  FW & Jamie McMaster \\
  ST & Alan Smith \\
  ST & Mark Viduka \\
\end{tcolorbox}
\label{tab1}
\end{table}

Table~\ref{tab1} can be referenced like any other.
\end{document}

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