Several table elements can be modified to achieve a good-looking document.

In this example there are a few more commands. Use \rowcolor (provided by colortbl; also loaded by xcolor under the [table] package option). This example shows double vertical and horizontal lines, when properly used help to keep the information within the table well organized. Let's look at how the actual LaTeX code would look like:First we include the required package in our preamble:While this table already works, it's not very satisfying and readable that the numbers in the center column are not aligned at the decimal point. The tables differ from the plain LaTeX tables in a few aspects: no vertical rules are used, there is additional space above and below horizontal rules, rules have varying "thickness", and no double rules are used.

where in our document the table should be positioned and whether we want it to be displayed centered. In this situation, it's often best to simply rotate the table and print it in sideways. Example: For the 5x3 table shown above we can count five times (\\) behind each row and two times (&) per row, separating the content of three columns.If we now want to add an additional column, it's as simple as copy and pasting the previous column and changing the contents.

It is a common practice to use two colours for alternating rows in a tables to improve readability.

Many examples of LaTeX tables (including this Wikibook) showcase the use of vertical rules (using "|"), and double-rules (using \hline\hline or "||"), which are regarded as unnecessary and distracting in a professionally published form.

When formatting a table you might require a fixed length either for each column or for the entire table. Furthermore once put into LaTeX tables, the data can not be plotted anymore and is not in a useful form in general. This feature is still experimental, but if you want to try it, you can find it We can now replace the hlines in our example table with Now that we have a solution for too many rows, we could also be facing the same problem if we had too many columns. The example below is an example of the If you have to insert a very long table, which takes up two or more pages in your document, use the Multilingual typesetting on Overleaf using babel and fontspecAll elements in a table can be customized to use a specific colour.

As you can see there are still some issues: 1: The right vertical table border is not shown (is it affected by the cline-color perhaps?)

For this reason, the I've also created a tool to edit LaTeX tables right in your browser. If we want a cell to span multiple columns, we have to use the Our document will now contain a table, with a huge cell:We will now see an additional column in our output:In the previous examples, we've always used the table and tabular environments.

In the example below a fixed column width is established. paragraph column with text vertically aligned in the middle (requires to the preamble.

The package The content on the table on the first page looks like this:I usually use an asterisk (*) as a parameter for the width, since this basically means, that the width should be determined automatically.Of course it's also possible to combine the two features, to make a cell spanning multiple rows and columns. Use can choose the table style using the select box in the toolbar. Below is a description about how to change the colour of each element in the table: 2: The “very long text” in my third “main” row is put within one cell (which I … This is because I've added the commands \endfirsthead and \endhead to my table, where everything written before You can now see, that the cell containing This will result in the following content:It's actually not harder, but easier to use than the previous code for tables. The table environment part contains the caption and defines the float for our table, i.e. Fortunately, we don't have to add spacing somehow manually, but we can use the Note that there's again a header on this page, but without the caption. Again, this functionality is provided by To create a list of tables is straightforward. Below you can see the simplest working example of a table The tabular environment is the default LaTeX method to create tables. Tables are common elements in most scientific documents, The caption of each table will be used to generate this list.

start new row (additional space may be specified after For example, { |m{5em} |m{1cm} |m{1cm}| } Creating multi-page tables.

I will be reusing the table from above for this example and add an additional column:Of course beauty is always in the eye of the beholder, but I personally think, that the default The above code will print out the table which I've already shown you in the introduction and it looks like this:In our example, we will again combine two neighboring cells, note that in the row where we're using multicolumn to span two columns, there's only one column separator (&) (instead of two for all other rows):Adding an additional column is also possible, but you have to be careful, because you have to add a column separator (&) to every column:The first thing we have to do is to include the There are two disadvantages of writing tables by hand as described in this tutorial. In our previous table, there was an alignment problem with the middle column, so I've now changed the alignment setting of the middle column from (c) to (S):In order for a cell to span multiple rows, we have to use the Imagine that this table has many rows (...) being a placeholder for more rows and that the table continues the following page like this:Because this is a little hard to explain, it will be much clearer when looking at the code. Positioning a table is easy if they're inside a float Showing first {{hits.length}} results of {{hits_total}} for {{searchQueryText}}A description of the commands is provided below: