[Tex/LaTex] Top alignment of cell content in tabularx

tablestabularxvertical alignment

I would like to align the content of each cell (of the first column) to the top. The approaches presented here did not apply. Maybe it has something to do with die tabular-environment inside the tabularx-environment?

How it looks like

How I would like it to look like

MWE

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx,booktabs} 

\begin{document}

    \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{lX}
        \toprule
        Mittel    & technische Details\\
        \midrule
        %first row of tabularx
        Laptop      &
            \begin{tabular}{ll}
            MacBook Pro & \\
            Baujahr 2010 & \\ 
            Prozessor & 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo \\
            Speicher & 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 \\
            Software & Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63)
            \end{tabular}\\[3em]
        %second row of tabularx
        Programmierumgebung          &
            \begin{tabular}{ll}
            Version & 8.0.4.0 \\
            Plattform & Mac OS x86 (32-bit, 64-bit Kernel)
            \end{tabular}\\
        \bottomrule
    \end{tabularx}

\end{document}

Best Answer

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You can make the inner tabulars top align by using [t] It may just be an artifact of your small example but tabularx can do nothing to help here as the inner tabular is fixed to its natural width so can not reflow to whatever width the X column specifies.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx,booktabs} 

\begin{document}
\noindent
    \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{lX}
        \toprule
        Mittel    & technische Details\\
        \midrule
        %first row of tabularx
        Laptop      &
            \begin{tabular}[t]{ll}
            MacBook Pro & \\
            Baujahr 2010 & \\ 
            Prozessor & 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo \\
            Speicher & 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 \\
            Software & Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63)
            \end{tabular}\\[3em]
        %second row of tabularx
        Programmierumgebung          &
            \begin{tabular}[t]{ll}
            Version & 8.0.4.0 \\
            Plattform & Mac OS x86 (32-bit, 64-bit Kernel)
            \end{tabular}\\
        \bottomrule
    \end{tabularx}

\end{document}

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Just put the \renewcommand line immediately before the \tabularx it will be scoped by the surrounding parameters element.

 \newenvironment{parameters}
      {Parameters:\\
       \renewcommand\tabularxcolumn[1]{m{##1}}%
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You had

Overfull \hbox (10.00002pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 34--35

As your table was full width but indented by paragraph indent (10pt) I added \noindent.

You do not have to use @{} ever but if you do use it (or |) you need to be consistent. | adds a rule and @{} removes the usual inter-column padding which by default also appears before the first and after the last column. If you use these you need to use them also in the \multicolumn specifications so that the spanning columns get the same inter-column space as the columns they span.

(update Note the use of an l cell to ensure baseline alignment of the headings)

It's a bit unusual to put Table:.. in the table rather than have a separate caption, but I left it like that:

 \documentclass[fleqn,10pt,twocolumn]{article} % Document font size and equations 
  \usepackage{tabularx}
  \usepackage[table]{xcolor}
  \usepackage{colortbl}
  \usepackage{enumitem}
  \renewcommand\tabularxcolumn[1]{m{#1}}
  \renewcommand\arraystretch{1.5} \setlength\minrowclearance{2.4pt} 

  \arrayrulecolor{blue}

  \newcolumntype{=}{>{\global\let\currentrowstyle\relax}}
  \newcolumntype{^}{>{\currentrowstyle}}
  \newcommand{\rowstyle}[1]{\gdef\currentrowstyle{#1}%
    #1\ignorespaces
  }


  \begin{document}

  \noindent X\dotfill X

  \noindent
  \begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{@{}|=l^X|@{}}
  \multicolumn{2}{@{}|>{\columncolor{blue}}c|@{}}{\color{white}\textbf{Table: Interfaces}} \\
  \hline
  \rowcolor{blue}
  \rowstyle{\color{white}\bfseries}
  \textbf{Interface} &\multicolumn{1}{l|@{}}{\textcolor{white}{\textbf{Programming Languages}}}\\
  \texttt{.NET}
   & The blablab this is only some text to illustrate my problem:
   \begin{itemize}[topsep=-5pt,leftmargin=0.7cm,itemsep=0.8pt,labelsep=.5cm]
   \item C\#
   \item VB .NET
   \end{itemize}\\
  \texttt{JNI}
  & Some other text \\
   \hline
  \end{tabularx}
  \end{document}

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