Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ How to centering a table and set the caption under the Table

[ohmp2007]

Hi!

I need help to find a solution for me problem that i have with the table! I try to find a way to center me table and also to set the caption of me table under me table.

I tried with \centering and also \center but nothing will work. I read that if I use \centering I need a paragraph to work

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	\begin{table}[H]
	\centering
		\begin{tabular}{|c | c| }

		\textbf{Wichtig} & \textbf{Wichtiger} \\ \hline

		Prozesse und Tools & Individuen und Interaktion \\ \hline
		detaillierte Dokumentation & funktionierende Software \\ \hline
		Vertragsverhandlungen & Zusammenarbeit mit dem Kunden \\ \hline
		einem Plan folgen & sich Änderungen anpassen \\ \hline

		\caption{Die Gewichtung des agilen Manifests}
		\label{agiles manifest}

		\end{tabular}
	\end{table}

[mas]

You have to move the caption outside of the tabular environment. The following code does what you want:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{showframe}
\begin{document}

\begin{table}[H]
\centering
  \begin{tabular}{|c | c| }
  \hline
  \textbf{Wichtig} & \textbf{Wichtiger} \\ \hline
  Prozesse und Tools & Individuen und Interaktion \\ \hline
  detaillierte Dokumentation & funktionierende Software \\ \hline
  Vertragsverhandlungen & Zusammenarbeit mit dem Kunden \\ \hline
  einem Plan folgen & sich Änderungen anpassen \\ \hline
  \end{tabular}

  \caption{Die Gewichtung des agilen Manifests}
  \label{agiles manifest}

\end{table}

\end{document}

[cgnieder]

Hi!

I need help to find a solution for me problem that i have with the table! I try to find a way to center me table and also to set the caption of me table under me table.

I tried with \centering and also \center but nothing will work. I read that if I use \centering I need a paragraph to work

Like mas said. This is easy to understand if you think of the whole {tabular} as one letter, say T. Then the structure of the floating environment {table} becomes a lot clearer:

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\begin{table}
  \centering
  T
  \caption{my caption}
  \label{tab:my-table}
\end{table}

Regards

[ohmp2007]

@mas

If I cpy&paste your solution. I get an error message: Can be used only in preamble.

thx

[Johannes_B]

mas posted a complete compilable minimal example, as all helpers do most of the time. You have to delete the obvious parts before copying it to your document.
The complete error message would also be very helpful.

btw: If you are looking for german help, check out our partner site TeXwelt.

[ohmp2007]

Hi!

i tried it with these code:

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\begin{table}[H]
\centering
  \begin{tabular}{|c | c| }
  \hline
  \textbf{Wichtig} & \textbf{Wichtiger} \\ \hline
  Prozesse und Tools & Individuen und Interaktion \\ \hline
  detaillierte Dokumentation & funktionierende Software \\ \hline
  Vertragsverhandlungen & Zusammenarbeit mit dem Kunden \\ \hline
  einem Plan folgen & sich Änderungen anpassen \\ \hline
  \end{tabular}

  \caption{Die Gewichtung des agilen Manifests}
  \label{agiles manifest}

\end{table}

The result is the same the table begins from the left side. And the caption is not under the table it is at the top of the table.

[Johannes_B]

All you are giving us is a snippet of code, which is pretty useless. Try to prepare a minimal working example to find the cause of the behaviour. You might have loaded package floatrow or something, i am not psychic.

Go back to the example provided by mas and click on »Open in Writelatex« to see, that the table is 1) centered and 2) the caption is below the table.

Additional hint: Tables usually have their caption on top. Have a look at package booktabs.

[ohmp2007]

Ok!

Here is me code.

usepackages

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\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[scaled]{helvet}
\renewcommand*\familydefault{\sfdefault}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}

\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{caption}[2008/08/24]

\usepackage{scrhack}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{geometry}

\usepackage{color}

\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames,svgnames,table]{xcolor}
\usepackage{hhline}

\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{pdfpages}

\usepackage[hyphens]{url}
\usepackage[pdftex]{hyperref}

%\usepackage{algorithmicx}

\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{floatrow}
\usepackage{wrapfig}

\usepackage{acronym}

format

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% listings format
\lstset{frame=single, aboveskip=15pt, framesep=5pt, belowskip=15pt}
\lstset{numbersep=10pt, tabsize=4, numbers=left, numberstyle=\tiny}
\lstset{xleftmargin=15pt, xrightmargin=15pt}

\lstset{basicstyle=\normalsize}
\lstset{keywordstyle=\ttfamily\color{OliveGreen}}
\lstset{identifierstyle=\ttfamily\color{CadetBlue}\bfseries}
\lstset{commentstyle=\color{Brown}}
\lstset{stringstyle=\ttfamily, showstringspaces=ture}
\lstset{breaklines=true}

\lstset{captionpos=b}
\lstset{language=xml}

% setspace format
\onehalfspacing

% geometry format
\geometry{a4paper,left=35mm,right=30mm, top=30mm, bottom=30mm}

% 
\parskip 10pt
\parindent 0mm

% hyperref for pdf

\hypersetup{ 
%    bookmarks=true,         % show bookmarks bar?
%    unicode=false,          % non-Latin characters in Acrobats bookmarks
    pdftoolbar=true,        % show Acrobats toolbar?
    pdfmenubar=true,        % show Acrobats menu?
    pdffitwindow=true,     % window fit to page when opened
    pdfstartview={FitH},    % fits the width of the page to the window
    pdftitle={},    % title
    pdfauthor={},     % author
    pdfsubject={},   % subject of the document
%    pdfcreator={Creator},   % creator of the document
    pdfproducer={}, % producer of the document
    pdfkeywords={}, % list of keywords
    pdfnewwindow=true,      % links in new window
    colorlinks=true,       % false: boxed links; true: colored links#
%
% Coloured Links
%    linkcolor=blue, citecolor=green, filecolor=magenta, urlcolor=cyan
%
% Black Links
    linkcolor=black, citecolor=black, filecolor=black, urlcolor=black
%
%
}


\floatsetup[table]{capposition=top}
\captionsetup[table]{labelfont=bf,font=small,position=top,labelsep=colon,justification=justified,singlelinecheck=off}

\captionsetup[figure]{labelfont=bf,font=small,position=bottom,labelsep=colon,justification=justified,singlelinecheck=off}


\renewcommand*{\thefigure}{\thechapter-\arabic{figure}}
\renewcommand*{\thetable}{\thechapter-\arabic{table}}

[Johannes_B]

Why didn't you follow the link i gave you? Again you are giving us snippets of code leaving your work to be done by us.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}%I bet you don't need the x
\usepackage[scaled]{helvet}%irrelevent
\renewcommand*\familydefault{\sfdefault}%irrelevent
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}

\usepackage{textcomp}%irrelevent
\usepackage{graphicx}%irrelevent
\usepackage{caption}[2008/08/24]

\usepackage{scrhack}%irrelevent
\usepackage{listings}%irrelevent
\usepackage{setspace}%irrelevent
\usepackage{geometry}%irrelevent

\usepackage{color}%irrelevent

\usepackage{subfig}%irrelevent
\usepackage{array}%irrelevent
\usepackage{multirow}%irrelevent
\usepackage{color}%irrelevent
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames,svgnames,table]{xcolor}%irrelevent
\usepackage{hhline}%irrelevent

\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{pdfpages}

\usepackage[hyphens]{url}%irrelevent
\usepackage[pdftex]{hyperref}%irrelevent

												    %\usepackage{algorithmicx}

\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{floatrow}
\usepackage{wrapfig}%irrelevent

\usepackage{acronym}%irrelevent

														    % listings
														    % format
\lstset{frame=single,%irrelevent
	aboveskip=15pt,%irrelevent
	framesep=5pt,%irrelevent
belowskip=15pt}%irrelevent
\lstset{numbersep=10pt,%irrelevent
	tabsize=4,%irrelevent
	numbers=left,%irrelevent
numberstyle=\tiny}%irrelevent
\lstset{xleftmargin=15pt,%irrelevent
xrightmargin=15pt}%irrelevent
%irrelevent
\lstset{basicstyle=\normalsize}%irrelevent
\lstset{keywordstyle=\ttfamily\color{OliveGreen}}%irrelevent
\lstset{identifierstyle=\ttfamily\color{CadetBlue}\bfseries}%irrelevent
\lstset{commentstyle=\color{Brown}}%irrelevent
\lstset{stringstyle=\ttfamily,%irrelevent
showstringspaces=ture}%irrelevent
\lstset{breaklines=true}%irrelevent
%irrelevent
\lstset{captionpos=b}%irrelevent
\lstset{language=xml}%irrelevent

\onehalfspacing%irrelevent

\geometry{a4paper,left=35mm,right=30mm, top=30mm, bottom=30mm}

																					%
\parskip 10pt
\parindent 0mm


\hypersetup{%irrelevant
%    bookmarks=true,         % show bookmarks bar?%irrelevant
%    unicode=false,          % non-Latin characters in Acrobats
%    bookmarks%irrelevant
    pdftoolbar=true,        % show Acrobats toolbar?%irrelevant
    pdfmenubar=true,        % show Acrobats menu?%irrelevant
    pdffitwindow=true,     % window fit to page when opened%irrelevant
    pdfstartview={FitH},    % fits the width of the page to the window
    pdftitle={},    % title
    pdfauthor={},     % author
    pdfsubject={},   % subject of the document
%    pdfcreator={Creator},   % creator of the document
    pdfproducer={}, % producer of the document
    pdfkeywords={}, % list of keywords
    pdfnewwindow=true,      % links in new window
    colorlinks=true,       % false: boxed links; true: colored links#
%
% Coloured Links
%    linkcolor=blue, citecolor=green, filecolor=magenta, urlcolor=cyan
%
% Black Links
    linkcolor=black, citecolor=black, filecolor=black, urlcolor=black
%
%
}


\floatsetup[table]{capposition=top}
\captionsetup[table]{labelfont=bf,font=small,position=top,labelsep=colon,justification=justified,singlelinecheck=off}

\captionsetup[figure]{labelfont=bf,font=small,position=bottom,labelsep=colon,justification=justified,singlelinecheck=off}


\renewcommand*{\thefigure}{\thechapter-\arabic{figure}}%irrelevant
\renewcommand*{\thetable}{\thechapter-\arabic{table}}%irrelevant

\begin{document}
\begin{table}
	\rule{5cm}{4cm}
	\caption{your caption}
\end{table}
\end{document}
 

Be careful, you are loading packages twice.

A minimal working example would be the following:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}%I bet you don't need the x
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}

\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{floatrow}

%\floatsetup[table]{capposition=top}%puts the caption on top
\captionsetup[table]{labelfont=bf,
font=small,
position=top,
labelsep=colon,
justification=justified,
%singlelinecheck=off%switches of centering
}
\captionsetup[figure]{labelfont=bf,font=small,position=bottom,labelsep=colon,justification=justified,singlelinecheck=off}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}
	\centering
	\rule{5cm}{4cm}
	\caption{your caption}
\end{table}
\end{document}

Seeing this, the reasons are obvious even for the unexperienced. If you don't need package floatrow, just take it out.

I see you are writing in german, you might want to check out our partner site TeXwelt. You can have all your questions answered there, in german.

Additionally, please read Minimale Vorlage vs. Maximale Probleme.

[ohmp2007]

Yes, I think it is difficult to find the solution. But i can not delete the things that you mark as *irrelevant.

Because I have a document with many pages e.g. I need the \usepackage{acronym} for these chapter.

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\chapter*{Abkürzungsverzeichnis}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Abkürzungsverzeichniss} 

\begin{acronym}[SEPSEP] % längste Abkürzung steht in eckigen Klammern
    \setlength{\itemsep}{-\parsep} % geringerer Zeilenabstand
    \acro{gmbh}[GmbH]{Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung}
    \acro{bzw}[bzw.]{beziehungsweise}
    \acro{usa}[USA]{Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika}
    \acro{engl}[engl.]{englisch}
    \acro{it}[IT]{Informationstechnologie}
    \acro{u.a.}[u.a.]{und andere}    
\end{acronym}

I fixed the problem with the caption.

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\floatsetup[table]{capposition=bottom}

The next thing is to bring the table into the center.

And if I try to erase packages it brings me only errors...

Thank you!