Table inside description list

Question

I'm trying to put a table inside a list environment but without success. I'd like to have the table inside the item (matching \linewidth) and not floating in the next page.

\begin{description}
    \item[Lorem ipsum] \hfill \\
        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...
    \item[Lorem ipsum] \hfill \\
        \begin{table}[h]
            \centering
            \caption{Foobar}
            \label{tab:foobar}
            \begin{tabular}{@{}ll@{}}
                \toprule
                \textbf{foo} & \textbf{bar} \\
                \midrule
                Lorem ipsum & foo \\
                Lorem ipsum & bar \\
                \bottomrule
            \end{tabular}
        \end{table}
\end{description}

How can this be achieved?

Answer 1

If you really want to leave the table as is, inside the description environment, you can avoid it to float simply replacing the floating specifier h with the H provided by the the float package.

MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{float} % defines the H specifier

\begin{document}
\begin{description}
    \item[Lorem ipsum] \hfill \\
        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...
    \item[Lorem ipsum] \hfill \\
        \begin{table}[H]
            \centering
            \caption{Foobar}
            \label{tab:foobar}
            \begin{tabular}{@{}ll@{}}
                \toprule
                \textbf{foo} & \textbf{bar} \\
                \midrule
                Lorem ipsum & foo \\
                Lorem ipsum & bar \\
                \bottomrule
            \end{tabular}
        \end{table}
\end{description}
\end{document} 

Output:

Answer 2

You don't want table to float. Then remove the table environment. You can have the caption with the help of \captionof macro from either caption or capt-of packages.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{capt-of,booktabs}
\begin{document}
  \begin{description}
    \item[Lorem ipsum] \hfill \\
        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...
    \item[Lorem ipsum] \hfill \\
            \begin{minipage}{\linewidth}
            \centering
            \captionof{table}{Foobar}
            \label{tab:foobar}
            \begin{tabular}{@{}ll@{}}
                \toprule
                \textbf{foo} & \textbf{bar} \\
                \midrule
                Lorem ipsum & foo \\
                Lorem ipsum & bar \\
                \bottomrule
            \end{tabular}
        \end{minipage}
\end{description}
\end{document}