[Tex/LaTex] An image side by side in latex

Question

I would like to have two figures side by side in my document. I found an example on here with the following code

\begin{figure}
\centering
\begin{minipage}{.5\linewidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=.4\linewidth]{image}
\captionof{figure}{A figure}
\label{fig: test1}
\end{minipage}%
\begin{minipage}{.5\linewidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=.4\linewidth]{image}
\captionof{figure}{Another figure}
\label{fig: test2}
\end{minipage}
\end{figure}

However when I try to compile it it comes up with the following errors:

template.tex error line 195 Argument of \caption@ydblarg has an
extra } \end{figure}

template.tex error line 195 Paragraph ended before \caption
@ydblarg was complete \end{figure}

How can I fix this to make it work?

Answer 1

try to use subfigure instead of minipage.

How about this code :

\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{subcaption}

\begin{figure}
        \centering
        \begin{subfigure}[b]{0.5\textwidth}
                \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{pic1}
        \end{subfigure}
        \begin{subfigure}[b]{0.5\textwidth}
                \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{pic2}
        \end{subfigure}
        \caption{two pictures side by side}
\end{figure}