Multirow and Multicolumn Horizontally Positioned Side By Side

Question

I am trying to make a table that has multirow then multicolumn horizontally positioned side by side. I have found a lot of posts that show how to use both in the same table, but none discuss using both within the same rows or, rather, positioning them horizontally within the same space.

Here is the Latex code I am using:

\begin{table*}[ht]
\captionsetup{justification=centering}
\caption{\propose{Multirow and Multicolumn Positioned Horizontally}\label{table:2DSearchTasks}}
\centering
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|X|X|X|X|X|X|X|}
\hline
\multirow{2}{*}{This is 2-row multirow} & \multicolumn{6}{c|}{This is 6-column multicolumn} \\
\hline
  & Title 1 & Title 2 & Title 3 & 4. Title 4 & 5. Title 5 & 6. Title 6 \\
\hline
\end{tabularx}
\end{table*}

Which outputs the following table:

As you can see, there is a horizontal line that goes through the multirow on the lefthand side of the table. How can I get rid of this?

Side question: How can I wrap the text of the multirow heading?

Answer 1

Use \multirow{2}{\hsize}{...} to get the size of the X column:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{tabularx}


\begin{document}

\begin{table*}[ht]
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|X|X|X|X|X|X|X|}
\hline
\multirow{2}{\hsize}{This is 2-row multirow} & \multicolumn{6}{c|}{This is 6-column multicolumn} \\
%\hline
\cline{2-7}
  & Title 1 & Title 2 & Title 3 & 4. Title 4 & 5. Title 5 & 6. Title 6 \\
\hline
\end{tabularx}
\end{table*}

\end{document}

As @Bernhard just told me, one can also use = instead of \hsize:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{tabularx}


\begin{document}

\begin{table*}[ht]
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|X|X|X|X|X|X|X|}
\hline
\multirow{2}{=}{This is 2-row multirow} & \multicolumn{6}{c|}{This is 6-column multicolumn} \\
%\hline
\cline{2-7}
  & Title 1 & Title 2 & Title 3 & 4. Title 4 & 5. Title 5 & 6. Title 6 \\
\hline
\end{tabularx}
\end{table*}

\end{document}