Tables – How to Fix Tabularray Table Wrapped by Tcolorbox Spreading Inside Right Margin

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Please consider the following code. The tables below are exactly the same. One is wrapped by a tcbbox of tcolorbox package. As you can see, it spreads inside the right margin, breaking page margins. The other one which is not wrapped has the right size. This happens when using an X type column in tabularray. How can I fix this without changing the type of X column? I include page frames for better visualization. It seems to me that the indentation length of left margin is added to the right, probably by tcolorbox? When the wrapped table in not under any question or subquestion which means left margin indentation is zero it does not spread to the right margin.

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[a4paper, total={150mm,257mm},left=15mm,top=20mm,showframe]{geometry}
\usepackage{tabularray}
\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\begin{document}
    \begin{enumerate}[label=\arabic*.]
        \item  This is question 1
        
            \tcbox[left=0mm,right=0pt,top=0mm,bottom=0mm,boxsep=0mm]{%
                
                \begin{tblr}{colspec={Q[5cm,c]X[c]},hlines,vlines}
                    text in cell 11 & text in cell 12 \\
                    text in cell 21 & text in cell 22 \\
                    text in cell 31 & text in cell 32 \\
                \end{tblr}}\hfill
        
                \begin{tblr}{colspec={Q[5cm,c]X[c]},hlines,vlines}
                    text in cell 11 & text in cell 12 \\
                    text in cell 21 & text in cell 22 \\
                    text in cell 31 & text in cell 32 \\
                \end{tblr}\hfill
        
            \begin{enumerate}[label=(\alph*)]
                \item Sub question 1
                
                    \tcbox[left=0mm,right=0pt,top=0mm,bottom=0mm,boxsep=0mm]{%
                        
                        \begin{tblr}{colspec={Q[5cm,c]X[c]},hlines,vlines}
                            text in cell 11 & text in cell 12 \\
                            text in cell 21 & text in cell 22 \\
                            text in cell 31 & text in cell 32 \\
                        \end{tblr}}\hfill
            
        \item  This is question 2
                
                        \begin{tblr}{colspec={Q[5cm,c]X[c]},hlines,vlines}
                            text in cell 11 & text in cell 12 \\
                            text in cell 21 & text in cell 22 \\
                            text in cell 31 & text in cell 32 \\
                    \end{tblr}
                \end{enumerate}
    \end{enumerate}
\end{document}

Best Answer

\tcbox creates

a colored box which is fitted to the width of the given ⟨box content⟩.

It doesn't make sense to combine this with a X column which tries to stretch a column to fit a table to the outside \linewidth: The X-column can only stretch after it knows the width of the box, but the box can only know its width after the X has done its work.

Use tcolorbox

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[a4paper, total={150mm,257mm},left=15mm,top=20mm,showframe]{geometry}
\usepackage{tabularray}
\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\begin{document}
    \begin{enumerate}[label=\arabic*.]
        \item  This is question 1
        
          \begin{tcolorbox}[left=0mm,right=0pt,top=0mm,bottom=0mm,boxsep=0mm]%               
                \begin{tblr}{colspec={Q[5cm,c]X[c]},hlines,vlines}
                    text in cell 11 & text in cell 12 \\
                    text in cell 21 & text in cell 22 \\
                    text in cell 31 & text in cell 32 \\
                \end{tblr}
           \end{tcolorbox}     
        
                \begin{tblr}{colspec={Q[5cm,c]X[c]},hlines,vlines}
                    text in cell 11 & text in cell 12 \\
                    text in cell 21 & text in cell 22 \\
                    text in cell 31 & text in cell 32 \\
                \end{tblr}\hfill
        
            \begin{enumerate}[label=(\alph*)]
                \item Sub question 1
                
                \begin{tcolorbox}[left=0mm,right=0pt,top=0mm,bottom=0mm,boxsep=0mm]%     
                        \begin{tblr}{colspec={Q[5cm,c]X[c]},hlines,vlines}
                            text in cell 11 & text in cell 12 \\
                            text in cell 21 & text in cell 22 \\
                            text in cell 31 & text in cell 32 \\
                        \end{tblr}
               \end{tcolorbox}         
            
        \item  This is question 2
                
                        \begin{tblr}{colspec={Q[5cm,c]X[c]},hlines,vlines}
                            text in cell 11 & text in cell 12 \\
                            text in cell 21 & text in cell 22 \\
                            text in cell 31 & text in cell 32 \\
                    \end{tblr}
                \end{enumerate}
    \end{enumerate}
\end{document}

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Since you have to define the \headheight at the begining of the code within geometry package irredeemably, this will stablish that same height for the header throughout the document.

To change that, you can define a \newgeometry with the \headheight equal to 0pt at the begining of even pages, but you have to redefine your previous geometry in the next page again. This is a manual procedure, but I don't know another way to do that.

Here I post you some code. As you can see, I have defined two styles with \fancypagestyle, one for even pages and another one for de odd ones. If you want to disable the numbering of the pages, just remove the \fancyfoot and \renewcommand\footrulewidth lines inside each style.

\documentclass[12pt,twoside]{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage[a4paper,margin=2cm,includeheadfoot,headheight=44pt]{geometry}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\fancypagestyle{odd}{ % 
\fancyhf{} 
\fancyhead[OL]{COURSE}
\fancyhead[OR]{
    \begin{tabular}{ c c }
        NAME  & NO  \\
        NAME1 & xxx \\
        NAME2 & yyy \\
    \end{tabular}
    }
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt} 
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
}

\fancypagestyle{even}{ %
\fancyhf{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}  
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
}

\begin{document}

\thispagestyle{odd}

\lipsum[1-2]

\newpage

\thispagestyle{even}
\newgeometry{margin=2cm,includefoot,headheight=0pt} %Just \includefoot

\lipsum[1-2] 

\newpage

\thispagestyle{odd} 
\newgeometry{margin=2cm,includeheadfoot,headheight=44pt}

\lipsum[1-2]  

\end{document}

The first page is messed up because the \headheight is by default 12pt but should be 44pt in this case. Is there any way to calculate this automatically? I would like to avoid typing 44pt manually.

I don't know any way to avoid calculate this manually. Just compile your document and wait for the log message referring to the \headheight and set that lenght as minimum.

TikZ-PGF – How to Calculate Total Width of a Tabularray Table and Integrate with TikZ or Tcolorbox

You could use the \settowidth macro to measure the width of your table. To avoid having to code the table twice, you could use a savebox and use it once to typeset your table and another time to measure the width.
The tcolorbox is not shifted to the left, instead everything else is shifted to the right from the normal paragraph indent of the class you use. You can avoid it locally by using \noindent or globally by changing the parindent length

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[a4paper, total={180mm,257mm},left=15mm,top=20mm]{geometry}
\usepackage{tabularray}
\usepackage{tikz,tcolorbox,blindtext}

\newlength{\foo}
\newsavebox{\mybox}



\begin{document}

\savebox{\mybox}{\begin{tblr}{colspec={Q[3.2cm,c]Q[5.2cm,c]Q[5.2cm,c]},rows={0.8cm,m},vlines,hlines}
        Column 1    & Column 2 & Column 3 \\                                                          
        A11         &   A12    &     A13  \\             
        A221        &   A22    &     A23  \\
    \end{tblr}}
    
\noindent\usebox{\mybox}

\settowidth{\foo}{\usebox{\mybox}}
    
    \noindent\rule{\foo}{1pt}

\vspace{10pt}

    \noindent\begin{tikzpicture}
        \draw (0,0) rectangle (\foo,4);
    \end{tikzpicture}

    \begin{tcolorbox}[width=\foo]
        \blindtext[1]
    \end{tcolorbox}
\end{document}

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