Tables – Fix Table Center Alignment and Missing Borders

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This table has a few issues.

I used the \centering command to center align the first row of the table but it doesn't work and everything is left aligned
border on the top-right hand side of the table is missing some parts
Is there a way to minimize empty spaces between the rows?

Code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\usepackage[a4paper, total={6in, 8in}]{geometry}
\usepackage{algorithm}
\usepackage{algpseudocode}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{mathrsfs}
\usepackage{cleveref}

\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning,calc,arrows.meta}%arrows is deprecated

\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{framed}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\newfloat{infobox}{htbp}{lop}

\theoremstyle{definition}
\newtheorem{definition}{Definition}[section]

\pagenumbering{gobble}
\begin{document}



\begin{center}
\begin{table}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|p{0.4\linewidth} | p{0.5\linewidth}|}
\hline
Visit Type & Fixed-Point Loop?   \\ \\ 
\hline\hline
Circular visit inside of circular visit & No fixed-point loop. Since the parent visit repeats the evaluation, its loop includes the child visit as well.\\ \hline
Non-circular visit in circular visit & No fixed-point loop. Visit has to evaluate only once. \\ \hline
Non-circular visit in non-circular visit & No fixed-point loop. Visit has to evaluate only once. \\ \hline
Circular visit in non-circular visit & Needs fixed-point loop. \\ \hline
\end{tabular}\caption{case-by-case analysis of loop requirement in CRAG visit sequence evaluator}
\end{table}
\end{center}



\end{document}

Best Answer

For your next question: Your code contains a lot of unnecessary packages.
You centered the (complete!) table twice (using \begin{center} and \centering). The \centering version is better since it does not add additional vertical white space, see When should we use \begin{center} instead of \centering?.
Regarding the first problem (centering the content of a cell), I provide a solution based on Aligning inside tabular environment, specific cell.
For the other problem (word spacing), I recommend having a look at Right alignment for p{length} box in tabular or How can I left-justify a paragraph cell in a table? (I have to stop procrastinating now and work on my actual work :)).

\documentclass{article}
%\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|p{0.4\linewidth} | p{0.5\linewidth}|}
\hline
% https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/33486
\multicolumn{1}{|c|}{Visit Type} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Fixed-Point Loop?}   \\ 
\hline\hline
Circular visit inside of circular visit & No fixed-point loop. Since the parent visit repeats the evaluation, its loop includes the child visit as well.\\ \hline
Non-circular visit in circular visit & No fixed-point loop. Visit has to evaluate only once. \\ \hline
Non-circular visit in non-circular visit & No fixed-point loop. Visit has to evaluate only once. \\ \hline
Circular visit in non-circular visit & Needs fixed-point loop. \\ \hline
\end{tabular}\caption{case-by-case analysis of loop requirement in CRAG visit sequence evaluator}
\end{table}

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] center alignment of headers in table

You need to replace

\textbf{Element Name} & 
\textbf{Description}

with

\multicolumn{1}{|c||}{\textbf{Element Name}} & 
\multicolumn{1}{c|}{\textbf{Description}}

Instead of using \adjustbox to cram the table into width of the text block, do consider using a tabularx environment instead of the tabular environment and using a column of type X for the second column. Text in an X column will can wrap, as needed. You may also want to consider giving the table a more "open" look, by getting rid of all vertical lines and using horizontal lines more sparingly. In the following screenshot, the second table is drawn with the help of the line-drawing macros of the booktabs package.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx,booktabs}  

\begin{document}
\begin{table}[!h]

\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|l||X|} 
\hline
\multicolumn{1}{|c||}{\textbf{Element Name}} & 
\multicolumn{1}{c|}{\textbf{Description}} \\
\hline
SemiMajorAxis & The length of the semi-major axis $a$, $b$ and $c$ of the 3D \\
\hline
\end{tabularx} 
\caption[A description of the XML elements containing the ellipsoid information]{A description of the XML elements containing the information of the ellipsoid.}
\label{tab:XML_defs}

\bigskip\bigskip
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{lX} 
\toprule
\textbf{Element Name} & \textbf{Description} \\
\addlinespace
SemiMajorAxis & The length of the semi-major axis $a$, $b$ and $c$ of the 3D \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabularx} 
\caption{Another, more ``open'' form of the same table}
\end{table}
\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Table center alignment doesn’t seem to work

The problem is that the table is too wide. You can get a reasonable width by splitting the long headers.

I also suggest to avoid vertical rules. You can easily reinsert them, though, from the code below.

Some more notes.

Don't use center, which adds unwanted vertical space.
Be consistent with the use of math mode in the first column.
For numeric tables, it's recommended to use siunitx.
Units should be typeset in the format required by the International System. For instance, the symbol for the kilogram is kg, not Kg.
An en-dash should be used for a missing value.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{booktabs,siunitx,makecell}


\begin{document}

\begin{table*}[!htb] 
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.3}
\renewcommand\theadfont{\bfseries}

\centering

\caption{Hydrostatics of 3b Asymmetric Catamaran Model [\(s/L\ 0.3\)]}\label{tab1}

\begin{tabular}{
  @{}
  l
  S[table-format=3.3]
  S[table-format=3.3]
  S[table-format=3.3]
  c
  @{}
}
\toprule
\thead{Parameter} &
{\thead{Catamaran}} &
{\thead{Inboard \\ Catamaran}} &
{\thead{Outboard \\ Catamaran}} &
\thead {Units}\\
\midrule
Displacement        & \num{349705} & \num{349705} & \num{349705} & \si{\kg}  \\
Draft Amidships     &     2.457    &     2.457    &     2.457    & \si{\m}   \\
Wetted Surface Area &   499.612    &   499.612    &   499.612    & \si{\m^2} \\
\(C_B\)             &     0.432    &     0.432    &     0.432    & --        \\
\(L/B\)             &     5.239    &     5.239    &     5.239    & --        \\
\(B/T\)             &     2.471    &     2.471    &     2.471    & --        \\
\(L/\Delta^{1/3}\)  &     5.395    &     5.395    &     5.395    & --        \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}

\end{table*} 

\end{document}

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