Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Centering caption in \minipage

[i.mehrzad]

I have looked all over the net for this. I have two tables side by side and have done this using the minipage argument. The problem is that the caption for the tables are not center aligned. Reference http://texblog.wordpress.com/2007/08/01 ... -minipage/

Can someone help me with centering the caption of each of the tables.

Thanking you,
Mehrzad

[fatra2]

Hi there,

Have you tried switching the order of the environment. Meaning,

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\begin{minipage}[b]{0.5\linewidth}
\begin{table}[ht]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
\hline
1&1&1\\
\hline
2&2&2\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
\end{minipage}
\hspace{0.5cm}
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.5\linewidth}
\begin{table}[ht]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
\hline
1&1&1\\
\hline
2&2&2\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
\end{minipage}

I just find it very peculiar to enter a minipage environment inside a table. Intuitively, I would create a minipage and then create a table.

Cheers

[localghost]

[...] I just find it very peculiar to enter a minipage environment inside a table. [...]

There's nothing unusual in this method. Some well known packages internally exactly proceed this way.

I have looked all over the net for this. I have two tables side by side and have done this using the minipage argument. The problem is that the caption for the tables are not center aligned. [...]

I can't see the problem. The method of your reference works fine.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[font=small,labelfont=bf,tableposition=top]{caption}
\usepackage{booktabs}


\begin{document}
  \begin{table}[!ht]
    \begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\linewidth}
      \caption{default}\label{tab:table1}
      \centering
      \begin{tabular}{cc}\toprule
        Table head & Table head \\ \midrule
        Some values & Some values \\
        Some values & Some values \\
        Some values & Some values \\ \bottomrule
      \end{tabular}
    \end{minipage}
    \hspace{0.5cm}
    \begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\linewidth}
      \caption{default}\label{fig:table2}
      \centering
      \begin{tabular}{cc}\toprule
        Table head & Table head \\ \midrule
        Some values & Some values \\
        Some values & Some values \\
        Some values & Some values \\ \bottomrule
      \end{tabular}
    \end{minipage}
  \end{table}
\end{document}

Centered single line captions are the default behaviour. Build a minimal working example (MWE) that shows the opposite.


Best regards
Thorsten