I have one table with 2 minipages. I wish to top align the two minipages.
e.g.
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{adjustbox}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|} \hline
\begin{minipage}{.5\linewidth}
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|} \hline
1 & 2 \\ \hline
3 & 4 \\ \hline
5 & 6 \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{minipage} &
\begin{minipage}{.5\linewidth}
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|} \hline
7 & 8 \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{minipage} \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{document}
Now the output is as below:
How can we align the second minipage on top? That means "7 8" line aligned with "1 2" line.
Best Answer
It's not clear to me why you have
minipage
environments encasingtabular
environments. Here's a solution that dispenses with the minipages and top-aligns twotabular
environments within atabularx
environment.To avoid overlaps between the
\hline
s drawn by the outertabularx
and the innertabular
environments, I've omitted some of your\hline
instructions from the inner environments. If you decide to get rid of the outer\hline
s, be sure to re-insert the\hline
s in the innertabular
s.Next, here's a version with three vertical bars drawn by the outer
tabularx
(far left, middle, and right). To avoid overlap of the vertical lines drawn by the inner and outer table-like environments, it may again be a good idea to omit the first vertical bar from each of the inner tabulars.Finally, for the sake of completeness, here's the code that's needed if you wish to use
minipage
environments after all to typeset the preceding example. Note that it's necessary to use the[t]
position specifier for both minipages and both tabulars in order to get the vertical alignment just right. (Not showing a separate screenshot since the result is identical to the one above.)