Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Latex: how to control the column width of a table

Latex will automatically adjust the width of a cell in a table, but it will not consider the width of the page, so sometimes parts of the table are out of the page. If you want to control the column width of a table, you may want to use p option instead of l, c or r for left, center or right alignment.


For example:


\begin{table}[ht]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|c|p{2cm}|p{1cm}|}
\hline
a & bb & c\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

Good luck!

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Many thanks for your post. Saved my day^^

Manjunath Prasad's said...

Thank you for the post. this is very useful for me

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Anonymous said...

Doesnt work!

Anonymous said...

Thanks! It works.

Nikolas Kleanthous said...

Thank you!

Unknown said...

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Tables

Unknown said...

Wow, thanks so much. That saved my life today!!
Thanks!

Anonymous said...

Thanks! Saved me so much time!!!

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