[Tex/LaTex] Tables do not align side by side

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\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{multicol}

\begin{table}[ht]
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.5\linewidth}%\centering
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
    & One & Twp & Three \\
 \hline
1 & Subject A: & Subject A & Subject  \\
2 & Subject B & Subject B& Subject  \\
3 & Subject C & Subject C & Subject   \\
4 & Subject D & Subject D & Subject  \\
4 & Subject E & Subject E & Subject   \\
5 &Subject F & Subject F & Subject  \\
6 & Subject G & Subject G & Subject  \\
7 &Subject H &Subject H &Subject   \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Table 1}
\end{minipage}
\hspace{0.5cm}
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.5\linewidth}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
    & One & Twp & Three \\
 \hline
1 & Subject A: & Subject A & Subject  \\
2 & Subject B & Subject B& Subject  \\
3 & Subject C & Subject C & Subject   \\
4 & Subject D & Subject D & Subject  \\
4 & Subject E & Subject E & Subject   \\
5 &Subject F & Subject F & Subject  \\
6 & Subject G & Subject G & Subject  \\
7 &Subject H &Subject H &Subject   \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Table 2}
\end{minipage}
\end{table}

I am trying to create two tables side by side and in the PDF they do not appear aligned. Second table is slightly lower than the first one, I have no clue how to fix it.

Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

Best Answer

Try this:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{multicol}

\begin{document}
\begin{table}[ht]
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.5\linewidth}%\centering
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
    & One & Twp & Three \\
\hline
1 & Subject A: & Subject A & Subject  \\
2 & Subject B & Subject B& Subject  \\
3 & Subject C & Subject C & Subject   \\
4 & Subject D & Subject D & Subject  \\
4 & Subject E & Subject E & Subject   \\
5 &Subject F & Subject F & Subject  \\
6 & Subject G & Subject G & Subject  \\
7 &Subject H &Subject H &Subject   \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Table 1}
\end{minipage}
\hspace{0.5cm}
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.5\linewidth}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
    & One & Twp & Three \\
 \hline
1 & Subject A: & Subject A & Subject  \\
2 & Subject B & Subject B& Subject  \\
3 & Subject C & Subject C & Subject   \\
4 & Subject D & Subject D & Subject  \\
4 & Subject E & Subject E & Subject   \\
5 &Subject F & Subject F & Subject  \\
6 & Subject G & Subject G & Subject  \\
7 &Subject H &Subject H &Subject   \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Table 2}
\end{minipage}
\end{table}

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] How to put two tables in a table* element so that the tables appear side by side in a two column layout scientific paper

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}

[Tex/LaTex] Align the top of two tables horizontally (side-by-side with minipage)

As Marc van Dongen says in a comment, add [t] as an option to both minipage environments:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{gb4e}
\begin{document}
    \begin{table}[h]
        \begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\linewidth}
            \begin{exe}
                \ex
                    \begin{tabular}[t]{l l}
                        ich & `I'\\
                        du & `you'\\
                        er & `he'\\
                    \end{tabular}
            \end{exe}
        \end{minipage}
        \begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\linewidth}
            \begin{exe}
                \ex
                    \begin{tabular}[t]{l l}
                        Schiff & `ship'\\
                        Haus & `house'\\
                        Mund & `mouth'\\
                        Auto & `car'\\
                        Buch & `book'\\
                        Stuhl & `chair'\\
                    \end{tabular}
            \end{exe}
        \end{minipage}
    \end{table}
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] How to put two tables in a table* element so that the tables appear side by side in a two column layout scientific paper

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