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webjunkie
webjunkie

Reputation: 7039

Make LaTeX table caption same width as table?

It looks bad in my paper if a caption is wider than the table underneath it. How can I make them both align?

Right now my code looks like:

\begin{table}[th!]
\caption{Reference temperature blah blah}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{llll}
...
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

Upvotes: 33

Views: 76459

Answers (5)

Johu
Johu

Reputation: 638

Actually there is a more legal way to do this using captions package option width.

For global effect

\usepackage[width=.75\textwidth]{caption}

For local effect only in current environment:

\usepackage{caption}
\captionsetup{width=.75\textwidth}


More info in caption package doc:

https://www.ctan.org/pkg/caption?lang=en

http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/caption/caption-eng.pdf (direct link to PDF subject to change)

Upvotes: 41

Caleb Hattingh
Caleb Hattingh

Reputation: 9225

Put your table plus caption inside a minipage. The caption will wrap. This is also a great way to have proper footnotes for tables.

Upvotes: 2

Hadi Safi aghdam
Hadi Safi aghdam

Reputation: 51

in caption package guide:

Only fixed widths are supported here; if you are looking for a way to limit the width of the caption to the width of the figure or table, please take a look at the floatrow[8] or threeparttable[22] package.

Upvotes: 5

lubar
lubar

Reputation: 2649

I've had success by putting my caption in a parbox:

\parbox{5cm}{\caption{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...}}

Upvotes: 14

Stefan
Stefan

Reputation: 3620

if you know or find out the width of the table, let's say 5cm -

  • if you're using a KOMA-Script class:

    \setcapwidth[c]{5cm}

  • if you're using the caption package:

    \captionsetup{width=5cm}

Both may be applied inside the table environment.

An automatically calculating solution is more complicated, but could be done using the \settowidth command.

Upvotes: 14

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