LaTeX table too wide. How to make it fit?
Solution 1
Use p{width}
column specifier: e.g. \begin{tabular}{ l p{10cm} }
will put column's content into 10cm-wide parbox, and the text will be properly broken to several lines, like in normal paragraph.
You can also use tabular*
environment to specify width for the entire table.
Solution 2
You have to take whole columns under resizebox. This code worked for me
\begin{table}[htbp]
\caption{Sample Table.}\label{tab1}
\resizebox{\columnwidth}{!}{\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l|l|}
\hline
URL & First Time Visit & Last Time Visit & URL Counts & Value\\
\hline
https://web.facebook.com/ & 1521241972 & 1522351859 & 177 & 56640\\
http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ & 1518413861 & 1522075694 & 24 & 39312\\
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/ & 1516596003 & 1522352010 & 36 & 33264\\
https://github.com/shawon100& 1517215489 & 1522352266 & 37 & 27528\\
https://www.youtube.com/ & 1517229227 & 1521978502 & 24 & 14792\\
\hline
\end{tabular}}
\end{table}
Solution 3
You can use these options as well, either use \footnotesize
or \tiny
. This would really help in fitting big tables.
\begin{table}[htbp]
\footnotesize
\caption{Information on making the table size small}
\label{table:table1}
\begin{tabular}{ll}
\toprule
S.No & HMD \\
\midrule
1 & HTC Vive \\
2 & HTC Vive Pro \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
Erik B
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Updated on July 09, 2022Comments
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Erik B almost 2 years
I just started to learn latex and now I'm trying to create a table. This is my code:
\begin{table} \caption{Top Scorers} \begin{tabular}{ l l } \hline \bf Goals & \bf Players\\ \hline 4 & First Last, First Last, First Last, First Last\\ 3 & First Last\\ 2 & First Last\\ 1 & First Last, First Last, First Last, First Last, First Last, First Last, First Last, First Last, First Last, First Last, First Last, First Last, First Last\\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{table}
The problem is that the table is wider than the page. I was hoping that it would automatically fit to the page like normal text does, but it didn't. How do I tell latex to make the table fit to the page?
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Erik B about 14 yearsDo I have to set a fixed size for p{} or can I tell it to use the rest of the space?
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Cat Plus Plus about 14 years@Erik: AFAIK you need a fixed size.
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Crapsy almost 6 yearsFor tabular*, the implementation is as follows: \begin{tabular*}{\textwidth}{|r|}
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Josyula Krishna over 2 yearsThis changes the font size in the table, it'll be hard to read.
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Wallace over 2 yearsCould you add an example showcasing this? It doesn't seem to work for me