Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Tabularx captioning above table

[jaykemper]

I'm trying to put a caption above a tabularx environment.

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\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{cXcX}
\caption{The caption}\\
contents&of&the&table\\
\end{tabularx}

That produces a table that does NOT stretch the X columns (equivalent to clcl). Embedding the tabularx in a table environment causes the numbering to skip (1,3,5,etc).

Any suggestions?

[localghost]

Please provide a small, complete and compilable, shortly spoken a minimal working example (MWE). The following doesn't cause any trouble.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[includeheadfoot,margin=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[font=small,labelfont=bf,tableposition=top]{caption}
\usepackage{booktabs,tabularx}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}
  \blindtext

  \begin{table}[!ht]
    \caption{Dummy table}\label{tab:dummy-1}
    \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{cXcX}\toprule
      contents & of & the & table \\ \bottomrule
    \end{tabularx}
  \end{table}

  \blindtext

  \begin{table}[!ht]
    \caption{Dummy table}\label{tab:dummy-2}
    \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{cXcX}\toprule
      contents & of & the & table \\ \bottomrule
    \end{tabularx}
  \end{table}

  \blindtext

  \begin{table}[!ht]
    \caption{Dummy table}\label{tab:dummy-3}
    \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{cXcX}\toprule
      contents & of & the & table \\ \bottomrule
    \end{tabularx}
  \end{table}

  \blindtext
\end{document}

Refer to the manuals of the used packages.


Best regards
Thorsten

[gmedina]

Hi,

using the table environment should work, as the following simple example illustrates:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}[!ht]
  \centering
  \caption{The normal table caption}
  \label{tab:test1}
  \rule{4cm}{2cm}% to simulate a table
\end{table}

\begin{table}[!ht]
  \caption{The tabularx caption}
  \label{tab:testx}
  \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{cXcX}
    contents&of&the&table\\
  \end{tabularx}
\end{table}

\begin{table}[!ht]
  \centering
  \caption{The normal table caption}
  \label{tab:test2}
  \rule{4cm}{2cm}% to simulate a table
\end{table}

\end{document}

If you are getting unexpected results, please provide a minimal working example showing any undesired behaviour.

Another option, instead of using a table environment, would be to use the \captionof command provided by the caption package.

[jaykemper]

I worked with your example, and the issue is something is happening with the package "ltablex", which combines the longtable characteristics with "tabularx"

MWE

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{ltablex}

\begin{document}
  Here's some text

  \begin{table}[!ht]
  \caption{Dummy table}\label{dummy-1}
    \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{cXcX}
       contents & of & the & table
    \end{tabularx}
  \end{table}

  Here's some text

  \begin{table}[!ht]
  \caption{Dummy table}\label{dummy-2}
    \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{cXcX}
       contents & of & the & table
    \end{tabularx}
  \end{table}

  Here's some text

  \begin{table}[!ht]
  \caption{Dummy table}\label{dummy-3}
    \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{cXcX}
       contents & of & the & table
    \end{tabularx}
  \end{table}

[gmedina]

Since you are using the ltablex package, suppress the table environments:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{ltablex}

\begin{document}

Here's some text

\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{cXcX}
  \caption{Dummy table}\label{dummy-1}\\
   contents & of & the & table
\end{tabularx}

  Here's some text

\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{cXcX}
  \caption{Dummy table}\label{dummy-2}\\
  contents & of & the & table
\end{tabularx}

Here's some text

\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{cXcX}
  \caption{Dummy table}\label{dummy-3}\\
  contents & of & the & table
\end{tabularx}

\end{document}

[localghost]

I hope you now understand the significance of a MWE.