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I want to put two tables side by side and my I have included a sample code below. How can we put separate captions for two tables in LaTeX included in one tabular environment?
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{ll}
\begin{tabular}{ccc}
A & B & C \\
\cline{1-3}
1 & 2 & 3 \\
\cline{1-3}
C & B & A \\
\end{tabular}
&
\begin{tabular}{ccc}
D & E & F \\
\cline{1-3}
4 & 5 & 6 \\
\cline{1-3}
F & E & D \\
\end{tabular}
\end{tabular}
\end{document}
You should use the subfig package.
\begin{table*}
\subfloat[First caption]{\begin{tabular}{...}...\end{tabular}}
\subfloat[Second caption]{\begin{tabular}{...}...\end{tabular}}
\caption{Overall caption}
\end{table*}
This can be used in conjunction with the floatrow package. See the subfig documentation for an example that aligns captions using floatrow.
EDIT:
Your example has an extra \begin{table} that doesn't belong. It also has a blank line which causes TeX to start a new paragraph which is why one table appears on top of the other.
Here's a complete example where I've also cleaned up your tables following the guidelines given in the documentation to the booktabs package.
\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\begin{document}
\begin{table*}
\subfloat[Before processing]{
\begin{tabular}{ccccc}
\toprule
Year & Month & Country & State & Impressions\\
\midrule
2007 & JAN & IN & TN & 3\\
2007 & JAN & IN & TN & 1\\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
}%
\hfill
\subfloat[After processing]{
\begin{tabular}{ccccc}
\toprule
Year & Month & Country & State & Impressions\\
\midrule
2007 & JAN & IN & TN & 7\\
2007 & FEB & IN & KA & 13\\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
}
\caption{overall}
\end{table*}
\end{document}
Building on the code that Danie-Els supplied in answer to a related question, I came up with this solution:
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage[a5paper]{geometry}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\centering
\makebox[0pt][c]{\parbox{0.9\textwidth}{%
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.45\textwidth}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{ | c | c|c|c| }
\hline
i & 1 & 2 & 3\\
\hline
$V$ & 10 & 8 & 12\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{xxx}
\label{tab:first}
\end{minipage}
\hfill
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.45\textwidth}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{ |c|c|c|c| }
\hline
i & 1 & 2 & 3\\
\hline
$N_2$ & 1 & 0 & 1\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{xxxx}
\label{tab:second}
\end{minipage}
}}
\end{table}
\begin{multicols}{2}
\blindtext[5]
\end{multicols}
\end{document}
Best Answer
using
tabularxfor outer table and usetableenvironment:addendum: in cases, when one table is wider than other and wider than the column width, you can manually accommodate columns width of the outer table. for this is more appropriate to use
tabular*thantabularxtable environment:which gives: