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I need to put a table inside another table, and would like to set the outside margins of the inner table to 0pt. How can I do this (in particular for tabularx, but hopefully this would be the same for any table environment)?

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\begin{tabularx}{1in}{@{}ll@{}}...\end{tabularx}. Why do you need a table inside a table? – TH. Apr 20 '11 at 15:29
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@TH.: Why not? I do this also from time to time to align a normal tabular with other things. – Martin Scharrer♦ Apr 20 '11 at 15:35
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@Martin: It seems like the 1990's HTML version of page layout. – TH. Apr 20 '11 at 15:47
@TH.: I know, but for simply things it is straight forward. I use the Web 2.0/CSS version of page layout as well (i.e. positioning using TikZ). – Martin Scharrer♦ Apr 20 '11 at 15:48
@TH.: I am using it for creating a particular form which basically needs a long table over multiple pages with a header and footer which are also in table form. if there is a better way to create such a layout, I am open to it – txwikinger Apr 20 '11 at 16:14
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If you are talking about the left and right margins of a tabular (be careful with the term 'table'), they can removed using @{} as first and last element in the column definition:

\begin{tabular}{@{}ll@{}}

The replace the normal skip with the content of the {}, which is empty in this case. This also works for tabularx and array etc.

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This worked somewhat with the cells of the tabular, but not with the hlines – txwikinger Apr 20 '11 at 15:42
@txwikinger: Works fine for me. Is your inner table a tabularx or tabular? The \hlines will be as long as the official tabularx width, but should be shorten for an tabular. – Martin Scharrer♦ Apr 20 '11 at 15:47
@Martin Scharrer: The inner table is tabularx the outer table is longtable. – txwikinger Apr 20 '11 at 16:12
@txwikinger: You might need to reduce the width then. Without seeing your code it's hard to tell. – Martin Scharrer♦ Apr 20 '11 at 16:16
@Martin Scharrer: I use \textwidth as the parameter for tabularx at the moment. Can I use something else to just let it fill all the space available? The cell (I use a background color for the cell) does go to the border of the outer table. The hline is still where the cell stopped before putting @{} into the format. – txwikinger Apr 20 '11 at 16:26
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