diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index c6373b92..0d79e35a 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ Bugs:
 * Typst notes returned an error since the last release. Thanks to @DominikVogel for report #357.
 * Duplicate group labels are allowed in LaTeX with `group_tt()`. Thanks to @eeemda for report #362.
 
+
 ## 0.5.0
 
 New:
diff --git a/R/style_tabularray.R b/R/style_tabularray.R
index c43445c7..c3f14936 100644
--- a/R/style_tabularray.R
+++ b/R/style_tabularray.R
@@ -38,14 +38,6 @@ setMethod(
     sty$alignv[which(sty$alignv == "t")] <- "h"
     sty$alignv[which(sty$alignv == "m")] <- "m"
 
-    for (spec in stats::na.omit(sty$tabularray_inner)) {
-      x@table_string <- tabularray_insert(x@table_string, content = spec, type = "inner")
-    }
-
-    for (spec in stats::na.omit(sty$tabularray_outer)) {
-      x@table_string <- tabularray_insert(x@table_string, content = spec, type = "inner")
-    }
-
     set <- span <- rep("", nrow(rec))
 
     # d-column are column-wise, so we treat them here
@@ -240,6 +232,15 @@ setMethod(
       x@table_string <- tabularray_insert(x@table_string, content = s, type = "inner")
     }
 
+    for (spec in unique(stats::na.omit(sty$tabularray_inner))) {
+      x@table_string <- tabularray_insert(x@table_string, content = spec, type = "inner")
+    }
+
+    for (spec in unique(stats::na.omit(sty$tabularray_outer))) {
+      x@table_string <- tabularray_insert(x@table_string, content = spec, type = "inner")
+    }
+
+
     return(x)
   }
 )
diff --git a/inst/tinytest/_tinysnapshot/latex-theme_grid.txt b/inst/tinytest/_tinysnapshot/latex-theme_grid.txt
index 81f546cc..4fdd5315 100644
--- a/inst/tinytest/_tinysnapshot/latex-theme_grid.txt
+++ b/inst/tinytest/_tinysnapshot/latex-theme_grid.txt
@@ -5,15 +5,11 @@
 {                     %% tabularray inner open
 colspec={Q[]Q[]Q[]Q[]Q[]},
 hlines, vlines,
-hlines, vlines,
-hlines, vlines,
-hlines, vlines,
-hlines, vlines,
 }                     %% tabularray inner close
 mpg & cyl & disp & hp & drat \\
 21.0 & 6 & 160 & 110 & 3.90 \\
 21.0 & 6 & 160 & 110 & 3.90 \\
-22.8 & 4 & 108 &  93 & 3.85 \\
+22.8 & 4 & 108 & 93 & 3.85 \\
 21.4 & 6 & 258 & 110 & 3.08 \\
 \end{tblr}
 \end{table} 
diff --git a/inst/tinytest/_tinysnapshot/latex-theme_striped.txt b/inst/tinytest/_tinysnapshot/latex-theme_striped.txt
index 4e6dcac5..f92c2781 100644
--- a/inst/tinytest/_tinysnapshot/latex-theme_striped.txt
+++ b/inst/tinytest/_tinysnapshot/latex-theme_striped.txt
@@ -4,19 +4,15 @@
 ]                     %% tabularray outer close
 {                     %% tabularray inner open
 colspec={Q[]Q[]Q[]Q[]Q[]},
-row{even}={bg=black!5!white},
-row{even}={bg=black!5!white},
-row{even}={bg=black!5!white},
-row{even}={bg=black!5!white},
-row{even}={bg=black!5!white},
 row{2,4}={}{bg=cededed,},
+row{even}={bg=black!5!white},
 }                     %% tabularray inner close
 \tinytableDefineColor{cededed}{HTML}{ededed}
 \toprule
 mpg & cyl & disp & hp & drat \\ \midrule %% TinyTableHeader
 21.0 & 6 & 160 & 110 & 3.90 \\
 21.0 & 6 & 160 & 110 & 3.90 \\
-22.8 & 4 & 108 &  93 & 3.85 \\
+22.8 & 4 & 108 & 93 & 3.85 \\
 21.4 & 6 & 258 & 110 & 3.08 \\
 \bottomrule
 \end{tblr}