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I would like to create a table with some columns' width specified, while the text in those columns should be centered both horizontally and vertically. I found out that

usepackage{array}

begin{tabular}{| c | c | m{5cm} |}

vertically centers the text in the last column, but justifies it horizontally (like text in normal paragraphs).

Update: With Jake's method, it seems both \ and hline cause an error. How to fix it?

tables horizontal-alignment width

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230

133

I would like to create a table with some columns' width specified, while the text in those columns should be centered both horizontally and vertically. I found out that

usepackage{array}

begin{tabular}{| c | c | m{5cm} |}

vertically centers the text in the last column, but justifies it horizontally (like text in normal paragraphs).

Update: With Jake's method, it seems both \ and hline cause an error. How to fix it?

tables horizontal-alignment width

share|improve this question

edited Feb 15 '13 at 19:39

lockstep

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asked Mar 5 '11 at 9:35

CoviCovi

2,47561816

add a comment | 

I would like to create a table with some columns' width specified, while the text in those columns should be centered both horizontally and vertically. I found out that

usepackage{array}

begin{tabular}{| c | c | m{5cm} |}

vertically centers the text in the last column, but justifies it horizontally (like text in normal paragraphs).

Update: With Jake's method, it seems both \ and hline cause an error. How to fix it?

tables horizontal-alignment width

share|improve this question

edited Feb 15 '13 at 19:39

lockstep

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asked Mar 5 '11 at 9:35

CoviCovi

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usepackage{array}

begin{tabular}{| c | c | m{5cm} |}

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edited Feb 15 '13 at 19:39

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A comprehensive solution (based on this answer) is to define new column types (say, L, C, and R) that take their width as argument and do the following:

• Issue raggedright, centering, or raggedleft to achieve the desired horizontal alignment,




• Declare letnewline\ to allow to use newline for manual line breaks within a cell (note that centering & friends change the meaning of \ -- this is the problem with Jake's solution),




• Issue arraybackslash (i.e., let\tabularnewline) to allow (again) to use \ for ending rows,




• Issue hspace{0pt} to allow the first word in a cell to be hyphenated.

In the example below, the new column types are based on (vertically centered) m-columns, but one may use (top- or bottom-aligned) p- or b-columns as well.

documentclass{article}



usepackage{array}

newcolumntype{L}[1]{>{raggedrightletnewline\arraybackslashhspace{0pt}}m{#1}}

newcolumntype{C}[1]{>{centeringletnewline\arraybackslashhspace{0pt}}m{#1}}

newcolumntype{R}[1]{>{raggedleftletnewline\arraybackslashhspace{0pt}}m{#1}}



begin{document}



begin{tabular}{| c | L{3cm} | C{3cm} | R{3cm} |}

foo &

A cell with text that wraps around, is raggedright and allows newline

    manual line breaks &

A cell with text that wraps around, is centered and allows newline

    manual line breaks &

A cell with text that wraps around, is raggedleft and allows newline

    manual line breaks \

end{tabular}



end{document}

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edited Jun 6 '17 at 20:32

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answered Mar 5 '11 at 12:09

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  Thanks, it works. In this way I don't have to add anything, just use "\" and "hline" as normally.
  
  – Covi
  Mar 5 '11 at 12:24
  
  
  

  
  
  
  


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  Nice answer! @Covi: You should probably accept lockstep's answer as the correct one, since it's more complete than mine
  
  – Jake
  Mar 5 '11 at 12:29
  

  
  
  
  


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  For anybody's interest: There is an (error free) conflict with the pdfsync package, which corrupts the spacing. I took me a while to find this problem...
  
  – matheburg
  Mar 14 '14 at 19:54
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
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  One small problem with this solution is that columns using p get vertically centered when there are longer L columns.
  
  – Georg Schölly
  Mar 10 '16 at 17:57
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
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  Please note that LCRJ column types are defined by the tabulary package. Just in case someone uses this excellent hint together with tabulary and wonders why some other tables break.
  
  – koppor
  Jul 9 '16 at 23:26
  

  
  
  
  

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The 'm' column type only centers the text vertically; to get it also centered horizontally, you can use the >{cmd} syntax, which adds a command before each cell in the specified column:

documentclass{article}

usepackage{array}

begin{document}

begin{tabular}{| c | c | >{centering}m{5cm} |}

Abc & Bcd & A long cell with text that wraps around and is centered

end{tabular}

end{document}

As Stefan Kottwitz pointed out in his comment, this can also be be wrapped in a new column type that you can define using

newcolumntype{C}[1]{>{centering}m{#1}}

Then you can define the above table using

begin{tabular}{| c | c | C{5cm} |}

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edited Mar 5 '11 at 10:51

answered Mar 5 '11 at 9:56

JakeJake

196k24660765

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  Works, but if there is a \ hline after the table row, this yields a misplaced noalign error. According to this answer, arraybackslash is required.
  
  – O. R. Mapper
  Oct 15 '15 at 12:27
  
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  How to add multiple rows to the table such that each cell is bordered by lines? Currently, only the columns are bordered by lines.
  
  – Hans
  Aug 15 '18 at 23:00
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

5

I found a very different technique that also works:

With the package ragged2e you can issue the command RaggedRight outside the tabular environment and get ragged right inside p- or m-columns of a tabular environment.

Here is an example document:

documentclass{article}

usepackage{array}

usepackage{ragged2e}

begin{document}

{RaggedRight

    begin{tabular}{| c | m{3cm}}

    foo &

A cell with text that wraps around, is raggedright and allows newline

manual line breaks \ 

end{tabular}

}% end of RaggedRight

end{document}

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edited Nov 10 '17 at 11:34

answered Nov 9 '17 at 17:02

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  How to add multiple rows to the table such that each cell is bordered by lines? Currently, only the columns are bordered by lines.
  
  – Hans
  Aug 15 '18 at 23:12
  

  
  
  
  


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  @Hans: As usual, using hline between the table rows (delimited by `\`)
  
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352

A comprehensive solution (based on this answer) is to define new column types (say, L, C, and R) that take their width as argument and do the following:

• Issue raggedright, centering, or raggedleft to achieve the desired horizontal alignment,




• Declare letnewline\ to allow to use newline for manual line breaks within a cell (note that centering & friends change the meaning of \ -- this is the problem with Jake's solution),




• Issue arraybackslash (i.e., let\tabularnewline) to allow (again) to use \ for ending rows,




• Issue hspace{0pt} to allow the first word in a cell to be hyphenated.

In the example below, the new column types are based on (vertically centered) m-columns, but one may use (top- or bottom-aligned) p- or b-columns as well.

documentclass{article}



usepackage{array}

newcolumntype{L}[1]{>{raggedrightletnewline\arraybackslashhspace{0pt}}m{#1}}

newcolumntype{C}[1]{>{centeringletnewline\arraybackslashhspace{0pt}}m{#1}}

newcolumntype{R}[1]{>{raggedleftletnewline\arraybackslashhspace{0pt}}m{#1}}



begin{document}



begin{tabular}{| c | L{3cm} | C{3cm} | R{3cm} |}

foo &

A cell with text that wraps around, is raggedright and allows newline

    manual line breaks &

A cell with text that wraps around, is centered and allows newline

    manual line breaks &

A cell with text that wraps around, is raggedleft and allows newline

    manual line breaks \

end{tabular}



end{document}

share|improve this answer

edited Jun 6 '17 at 20:32

David Carlisle

498k4111441893

answered Mar 5 '11 at 12:09

locksteplockstep

193k53593723

• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Thanks, it works. In this way I don't have to add anything, just use "\" and "hline" as normally.
  
  – Covi
  Mar 5 '11 at 12:24
  
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  6
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Nice answer! @Covi: You should probably accept lockstep's answer as the correct one, since it's more complete than mine
  
  – Jake
  Mar 5 '11 at 12:29
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  For anybody's interest: There is an (error free) conflict with the pdfsync package, which corrupts the spacing. I took me a while to find this problem...
  
  – matheburg
  Mar 14 '14 at 19:54
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  One small problem with this solution is that columns using p get vertically centered when there are longer L columns.
  
  – Georg Schölly
  Mar 10 '16 at 17:57
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  2
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Please note that LCRJ column types are defined by the tabulary package. Just in case someone uses this excellent hint together with tabulary and wonders why some other tables break.
  
  – koppor
  Jul 9 '16 at 23:26
  

  
  
  
  

 | 
show 9 more comments

352

A comprehensive solution (based on this answer) is to define new column types (say, L, C, and R) that take their width as argument and do the following:

• Issue raggedright, centering, or raggedleft to achieve the desired horizontal alignment,




• Declare letnewline\ to allow to use newline for manual line breaks within a cell (note that centering & friends change the meaning of \ -- this is the problem with Jake's solution),




• Issue arraybackslash (i.e., let\tabularnewline) to allow (again) to use \ for ending rows,




• Issue hspace{0pt} to allow the first word in a cell to be hyphenated.

In the example below, the new column types are based on (vertically centered) m-columns, but one may use (top- or bottom-aligned) p- or b-columns as well.

documentclass{article}



usepackage{array}

newcolumntype{L}[1]{>{raggedrightletnewline\arraybackslashhspace{0pt}}m{#1}}

newcolumntype{C}[1]{>{centeringletnewline\arraybackslashhspace{0pt}}m{#1}}

newcolumntype{R}[1]{>{raggedleftletnewline\arraybackslashhspace{0pt}}m{#1}}



begin{document}



begin{tabular}{| c | L{3cm} | C{3cm} | R{3cm} |}

foo &

A cell with text that wraps around, is raggedright and allows newline

    manual line breaks &

A cell with text that wraps around, is centered and allows newline

    manual line breaks &

A cell with text that wraps around, is raggedleft and allows newline

    manual line breaks \

end{tabular}



end{document}

share|improve this answer

edited Jun 6 '17 at 20:32

David Carlisle

498k4111441893

answered Mar 5 '11 at 12:09

locksteplockstep

193k53593723

• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Thanks, it works. In this way I don't have to add anything, just use "\" and "hline" as normally.
  
  – Covi
  Mar 5 '11 at 12:24
  
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  6
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Nice answer! @Covi: You should probably accept lockstep's answer as the correct one, since it's more complete than mine
  
  – Jake
  Mar 5 '11 at 12:29
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  For anybody's interest: There is an (error free) conflict with the pdfsync package, which corrupts the spacing. I took me a while to find this problem...
  
  – matheburg
  Mar 14 '14 at 19:54
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  One small problem with this solution is that columns using p get vertically centered when there are longer L columns.
  
  – Georg Schölly
  Mar 10 '16 at 17:57
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  2
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Please note that LCRJ column types are defined by the tabulary package. Just in case someone uses this excellent hint together with tabulary and wonders why some other tables break.
  
  – koppor
  Jul 9 '16 at 23:26
  

  
  
  
  

 | 
show 9 more comments

A comprehensive solution (based on this answer) is to define new column types (say, L, C, and R) that take their width as argument and do the following:

• Issue raggedright, centering, or raggedleft to achieve the desired horizontal alignment,




• Declare letnewline\ to allow to use newline for manual line breaks within a cell (note that centering & friends change the meaning of \ -- this is the problem with Jake's solution),




• Issue arraybackslash (i.e., let\tabularnewline) to allow (again) to use \ for ending rows,




• Issue hspace{0pt} to allow the first word in a cell to be hyphenated.

In the example below, the new column types are based on (vertically centered) m-columns, but one may use (top- or bottom-aligned) p- or b-columns as well.

documentclass{article}



usepackage{array}

newcolumntype{L}[1]{>{raggedrightletnewline\arraybackslashhspace{0pt}}m{#1}}

newcolumntype{C}[1]{>{centeringletnewline\arraybackslashhspace{0pt}}m{#1}}

newcolumntype{R}[1]{>{raggedleftletnewline\arraybackslashhspace{0pt}}m{#1}}



begin{document}



begin{tabular}{| c | L{3cm} | C{3cm} | R{3cm} |}

foo &

A cell with text that wraps around, is raggedright and allows newline

    manual line breaks &

A cell with text that wraps around, is centered and allows newline

    manual line breaks &

A cell with text that wraps around, is raggedleft and allows newline

    manual line breaks \

end{tabular}



end{document}

share|improve this answer

edited Jun 6 '17 at 20:32

David Carlisle

498k4111441893

answered Mar 5 '11 at 12:09

locksteplockstep

193k53593723

documentclass{article}



usepackage{array}

newcolumntype{L}[1]{>{raggedrightletnewline\arraybackslashhspace{0pt}}m{#1}}

newcolumntype{C}[1]{>{centeringletnewline\arraybackslashhspace{0pt}}m{#1}}

newcolumntype{R}[1]{>{raggedleftletnewline\arraybackslashhspace{0pt}}m{#1}}



begin{document}



begin{tabular}{| c | L{3cm} | C{3cm} | R{3cm} |}

foo &

A cell with text that wraps around, is raggedright and allows newline

    manual line breaks &

A cell with text that wraps around, is centered and allows newline

    manual line breaks &

A cell with text that wraps around, is raggedleft and allows newline

    manual line breaks \

end{tabular}



end{document}

share|improve this answer

edited Jun 6 '17 at 20:32

David Carlisle

498k4111441893

answered Mar 5 '11 at 12:09

locksteplockstep

193k53593723

edited Jun 6 '17 at 20:32

David Carlisle

498k4111441893

edited Jun 6 '17 at 20:32

David Carlisle

498k4111441893

answered Mar 5 '11 at 12:09

locksteplockstep

193k53593723

answered Mar 5 '11 at 12:09

locksteplockstep

193k53593723

59

The 'm' column type only centers the text vertically; to get it also centered horizontally, you can use the >{cmd} syntax, which adds a command before each cell in the specified column:

documentclass{article}

usepackage{array}

begin{document}

begin{tabular}{| c | c | >{centering}m{5cm} |}

Abc & Bcd & A long cell with text that wraps around and is centered

end{tabular}

end{document}

As Stefan Kottwitz pointed out in his comment, this can also be be wrapped in a new column type that you can define using

newcolumntype{C}[1]{>{centering}m{#1}}

Then you can define the above table using

begin{tabular}{| c | c | C{5cm} |}

share|improve this answer

edited Mar 5 '11 at 10:51

answered Mar 5 '11 at 9:56

JakeJake

196k24660765

• 
  
  
  

  
  6
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Works, but if there is a \ hline after the table row, this yields a misplaced noalign error. According to this answer, arraybackslash is required.
  
  – O. R. Mapper
  Oct 15 '15 at 12:27
  
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  How to add multiple rows to the table such that each cell is bordered by lines? Currently, only the columns are bordered by lines.
  
  – Hans
  Aug 15 '18 at 23:00
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

59

The 'm' column type only centers the text vertically; to get it also centered horizontally, you can use the >{cmd} syntax, which adds a command before each cell in the specified column:

documentclass{article}

usepackage{array}

begin{document}

begin{tabular}{| c | c | >{centering}m{5cm} |}

Abc & Bcd & A long cell with text that wraps around and is centered

end{tabular}

end{document}

As Stefan Kottwitz pointed out in his comment, this can also be be wrapped in a new column type that you can define using

newcolumntype{C}[1]{>{centering}m{#1}}

Then you can define the above table using

begin{tabular}{| c | c | C{5cm} |}

share|improve this answer

edited Mar 5 '11 at 10:51

answered Mar 5 '11 at 9:56

JakeJake

196k24660765

• 
  
  
  

  
  6
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Works, but if there is a \ hline after the table row, this yields a misplaced noalign error. According to this answer, arraybackslash is required.
  
  – O. R. Mapper
  Oct 15 '15 at 12:27
  
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  How to add multiple rows to the table such that each cell is bordered by lines? Currently, only the columns are bordered by lines.
  
  – Hans
  Aug 15 '18 at 23:00
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

The 'm' column type only centers the text vertically; to get it also centered horizontally, you can use the >{cmd} syntax, which adds a command before each cell in the specified column:

documentclass{article}

usepackage{array}

begin{document}

begin{tabular}{| c | c | >{centering}m{5cm} |}

Abc & Bcd & A long cell with text that wraps around and is centered

end{tabular}

end{document}

As Stefan Kottwitz pointed out in his comment, this can also be be wrapped in a new column type that you can define using

newcolumntype{C}[1]{>{centering}m{#1}}

Then you can define the above table using

begin{tabular}{| c | c | C{5cm} |}

share|improve this answer

edited Mar 5 '11 at 10:51

answered Mar 5 '11 at 9:56

JakeJake

196k24660765

documentclass{article}

usepackage{array}

begin{document}

begin{tabular}{| c | c | >{centering}m{5cm} |}

Abc & Bcd & A long cell with text that wraps around and is centered

end{tabular}

end{document}

newcolumntype{C}[1]{>{centering}m{#1}}

begin{tabular}{| c | c | C{5cm} |}

share|improve this answer

edited Mar 5 '11 at 10:51

answered Mar 5 '11 at 9:56

JakeJake

196k24660765

answered Mar 5 '11 at 9:56

JakeJake

196k24660765

answered Mar 5 '11 at 9:56

JakeJake

196k24660765

5

I found a very different technique that also works:

With the package ragged2e you can issue the command RaggedRight outside the tabular environment and get ragged right inside p- or m-columns of a tabular environment.

Here is an example document:

documentclass{article}

usepackage{array}

usepackage{ragged2e}

begin{document}

{RaggedRight

    begin{tabular}{| c | m{3cm}}

    foo &

A cell with text that wraps around, is raggedright and allows newline

manual line breaks \ 

end{tabular}

}% end of RaggedRight

end{document}

share|improve this answer

edited Nov 10 '17 at 11:34

answered Nov 9 '17 at 17:02

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  How to add multiple rows to the table such that each cell is bordered by lines? Currently, only the columns are bordered by lines.
  
  – Hans
  Aug 15 '18 at 23:12
  

  
  
  
  


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  @Hans: As usual, using hline between the table rows (delimited by `\`)
  
  – jknappen
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I found a very different technique that also works:

With the package ragged2e you can issue the command RaggedRight outside the tabular environment and get ragged right inside p- or m-columns of a tabular environment.

Here is an example document:

documentclass{article}

usepackage{array}

usepackage{ragged2e}

begin{document}

{RaggedRight

    begin{tabular}{| c | m{3cm}}

    foo &

A cell with text that wraps around, is raggedright and allows newline

manual line breaks \ 

end{tabular}

}% end of RaggedRight

end{document}

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edited Nov 10 '17 at 11:34

answered Nov 9 '17 at 17:02

jknappenjknappen

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  How to add multiple rows to the table such that each cell is bordered by lines? Currently, only the columns are bordered by lines.
  
  – Hans
  Aug 15 '18 at 23:12
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @Hans: As usual, using hline between the table rows (delimited by `\`)
  
  – jknappen
  Aug 16 '18 at 15:06
  
  
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

I found a very different technique that also works:

With the package ragged2e you can issue the command RaggedRight outside the tabular environment and get ragged right inside p- or m-columns of a tabular environment.

Here is an example document:

documentclass{article}

usepackage{array}

usepackage{ragged2e}

begin{document}

{RaggedRight

    begin{tabular}{| c | m{3cm}}

    foo &

A cell with text that wraps around, is raggedright and allows newline

manual line breaks \ 

end{tabular}

}% end of RaggedRight

end{document}

share|improve this answer

edited Nov 10 '17 at 11:34

answered Nov 9 '17 at 17:02

jknappenjknappen

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documentclass{article}

usepackage{array}

usepackage{ragged2e}

begin{document}

{RaggedRight

    begin{tabular}{| c | m{3cm}}

    foo &

A cell with text that wraps around, is raggedright and allows newline

manual line breaks \ 

end{tabular}

}% end of RaggedRight

end{document}

share|improve this answer

edited Nov 10 '17 at 11:34

answered Nov 9 '17 at 17:02

jknappenjknappen

2,841730

answered Nov 9 '17 at 17:02

jknappenjknappen

2,841730

answered Nov 9 '17 at 17:02

jknappenjknappen

2,841730