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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?

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  • Remove the table environment.
    – Peter Grill
    Feb 11, 2014 at 0:17
  • Well, it is difficulty to help you without the code to produce the error. Also if there is no space enough to insert the table, no way, it will be inserted after.
    – Sigur
    Feb 11, 2014 at 0:17

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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:

enter image description here

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  • The specifier H did the trick! Thanks.
    – Renato Rodrigues
    Feb 11, 2014 at 9:23
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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}

enter image description here

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  • I've tried your method before and it has some faults: caption is not aligned with the table; can't control table width; vertical space between caption and the table is non existent.
    – Renato Rodrigues
    Feb 11, 2014 at 9:21
  • @RenatoRodrigues My method works too ;) See the edited answer.
    – user11232
    Feb 11, 2014 at 10:06

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