Kdtyjb

Im new to this, I just have a simple question.

How to declare a table let's say after I mention it in the text.

What I want:

Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah as shown in Table ~ref{tab:table_Languages}

MY TABLE CAPTION



| Rank | Language | Share | Trend |

-----------------------------

....

What I have:

MY TABLE CAPTION



| Rank | Language | Share | Trend |

-----------------------------

.....

Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah as shown in Table ~ref{tab:table_Languages}

What I use:

begin{table}

    centering

    label{tab:table_Languages}

    setlength{tabcolsep}{0.3cm}

    begin{tabular}{|c|p{2cm}|l|l|}

        hline

        textbf{Rank} & textbf{Language} & textbf{Share} & textbf{Trend} \ 

        hline 

        textbf{1} & Python     & 26.42%  & +5.2% \ hline

        textbf{2} & Java       & 21.20%  & -1.3% \ hline

        textbf{3} & JavaScript & 08.21%  & -0.3% \ hline

        textbf{4} & C#        & 07.57%  & -0.5% \ hline

        textbf{5} & PHP        & 07.34%  & -1.2% \ hline

        textbf{6} & C/C++      & 06.23%  & -0.3% \ hline

        textbf{7} & R          & 04.13%  & -0.1% \ hline

    end{tabular}

end{table}

UPDATE:

Adding caption{Best ranking Programming Languages in 2019.} creates a nice caption above my example. However it doesn't fix the position and also the value of the counter for the tables is not right, as it gets the Chapter number for a reason as shown in the figure.

(updated the answer to include the OP's piece of information that the bangorcsthesis document class is in use)

You're almost there: In addition to providing label and ref statements, you need to inform LaTeX which counter or item to associate the label with. In the case of figure and table environments, the way to make this association is to issue a caption directive. This directive not only typesets a (hopefully meaningful) caption, it also increments a figure or table counter in such a way that the subsequent label statement "knows" what to latch on to. Incidentally, because label statements try to "latch on" to the most recently incremented counter variable, it is essential to issue figure- and table-related label statements after the corresponding caption statements.

The LaTeX kernel provides the basic, yet flexible and quite powerful label-ref mechanism. Many LaTeX packages have been written to extend this basic mechanism. Please see the posting Cross-reference packages: which to use, which conflict? for more information about these packages.

documentclass[bsc]{bangorcsthesis}

usepackage{array} % for "newcolumntype" macro

newcolumntype{C}{>{bfseries}c}

begin{document}

setcounter{chapter}{3} % just for this example



begin{table}

centering

caption{Best Programming Languages in 2019}

label{tab:table_Languages}

setlength{tabcolsep}{3mm}

begin{tabular}{|C|l|l|r|}

hline

Rank & textbf{Language} & textbf{Share} & textbf{Trend} \ 

hline 

1 & Python     & 26.42%  & +5.2% \ 

2 & Java       & 21.20%  & $-$1.3% \ 

3 & JavaScript & 08.21%  & $-$0.3% \ 

4 & C#        & 07.57%  & $-$0.5% \ 

5 & PHP        & 07.34%  & $-$1.2% \ 

6 & C/C++      & 06.23%  & $-$0.3% \ 

7 & R          & 04.13%  & $-$0.1% \ 

hline

end{tabular}

end{table}



noindent

dots as shown in Table~ref{tab:table_Languages}, dots



end{document}