How do I put a table following the other table in a two-colmuns layout?

Question

my page is of two columns layout and I want to put two tables in consequence on the right column like below:

text here    Table 1 goes here
text here
text here    Table 2 goes here
text here

while I have used wraptable then Table 1 is placed accurate but Table 2 is jumped to the left column below the last text line. In case if I remove wraptable for the table 2, the two tables are covering each other (overlapping).

How can I have the two tables aligned in the right column?

Answer 1

You may have to adjust the position of your table environments in the source to avoid the left column, but otherwise it should just work with no special markup:

\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}

\def\a{One two three four five six even eight nine ten. }
\def\b{Red. \a\a Blue \a\a Green. \a\a\a}

\begin{document}

\listoftables


\b\b\b\b\b\a\b\b\b

\begin{table}\centering
\begin{tabular}{cc}1&2\\3&4\\5&6\end{tabular}
\caption{a table}
\end{table}
\begin{table}\centering
\begin{tabular}{cc}11&22\\33&44\\55&66\end{tabular}
\caption{another table}
\end{table}

\b\b\b

\b\b\b\b\b\b

\end{document}