Controlling table at the beginning of a section [closed]

Question

I have a document, and there is a chapter with few tables. In this chapter I have this section:

\section{Some section}
\begin{table}[H]
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l|}
---
\end{tabular}
\caption{Some caption}
\end{table}

now, after compiling I get section at the top of the page and my table at the bottom. I tried to use

\usepackage{float}

with H or h options for tables, and it worked for other tables, but not for this one. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

When I encounter such a "strange" behaviour, I add a paragraph between sections or chapters or -- here -- chapter and a tabular with just one command: \mbox{}. Usually that helps. And this seems better to me than a hard \newpage or \clearpage. You never know how long your tabular will become in the end and if it becomes longer than one page you will later wonder why TeX leaves a page blank except for one line.