Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Table in table causes bad alignment

[zer0nimo]

Hi!

I'm trying to make some nested tabulars but by doing so get a bad alignment.

I want all cells in the table to be aligned to the top left.

In the example the cell named "BAD!" should be aligned like the others (to the top). The cell named "ugly code" does so, but in an ugly manner (what actually wouldn't bother me, but doesen't work for my real problem anyway ).

Thanks for an explaination and/or solution!

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{color}

\begin{document}
  
  \begin{tabular}{llll}
 		 \toprule
 		 	
					\noindent\begin{tabular}{l}Stuff 1 \tabularnewline Stuff 2 \end{tabular}
				&\noindent\begin{tabular}{l}\textcolor{red}{BAD!}\end{tabular}  
				&\noindent\begin{tabular}{l}Stuff 1 \tabularnewline  Stuff 2 \end{tabular} 
				&\noindent\begin{tabular}{l}Ugly code \tabularnewline ~ \end{tabular}\\[8pt]
				
			\bottomrule
	 \end{tabular}
  
\end{document}

[localghost]

You can try an optional positioning parameter for the inner tabular environments. See code below.

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\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{booktabs}

\begin{document}
  \begin{tabular}{*4{l}}\toprule
    \begin{tabular}[t]{l} Stuff 1 \\ Stuff 2 \end{tabular} &
    \begin{tabular}[t]{l} \textcolor{red}{BAD!} \end{tabular} &
    \begin{tabular}[t]{l} Stuff 1 \\ Stuff 2 \end{tabular} &
    \begin{tabular}[t]{l} Ugly code \\ \end{tabular} \\ \bottomrule
  \end{tabular}
\end{document}

Best regards
Thorsten

[CrazyHorse]

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{makecell}
\renewcommand\cellalign{lt}

\begin{document}
 
\begin{tabular}{llll}\toprule
\makecell{Stuff 1 \\ Stuff 2 }
  & \makecell{\textcolor{red}{GOOD!}} 
  & \makecell{Stuff 1 \\  Stuff 2 }
  & \makecell{Ugly code \\ ~ }\\[8pt]\bottomrule
    \end{tabular}
 
\end{document}

Herbert

[zer0nimo]

Thanks to both of you!

The first solution is that simple, that I really should have got it on my own

Instead of [t] I've used [h!], what now got clear to me doesn't really make sense!


The second solution is a little bit more elegant and I will use this option for future work. It makes the handling of generated inputs into a tabular much easier!

Regards, Erik