No vertical lines in multirow with booktabs

Question

I want to have a table that looks like this but without the horizontal lines above and below MULTI:

My code is the following:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{multirow}

\newcolumntype{M}[1]{>{\centering\arraybackslash}m{#1}}

\begin{document}


\begin{table}
\centering
\caption{Table}
\label{tab:table}
\begin{tabular}{M{0.1\textwidth} M{0.2\textwidth} M{0.2\textwidth} M{0.23\textwidth} M{0.12\textwidth}}
TEXT & TEXT & TEXT & TEXT & TEXT \\ \specialrule{.2em}{.1em}{.1em} 
TEXT & \multirow{3}{*}[-2pt]{MULTI} & TEXT & TEXT & TEXT \\ \hline
TEXT &  & TEXT & TEXT & TEXT \\ \hline
TEXT &  & TEXT & TEXT & TEXT \\  \specialrule{.1em}{.05em}{.05em}
\end{tabular}

\end{table}

\end{document}

I checked this but I cannot make it work.

Answer 1

Just remove \hline that you have in your MWE. Hope it works!

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{multirow}

\newcolumntype{M}[1]{>{\centering\arraybackslash}m{#1}}

\begin{document}


\begin{table}
\centering
\caption{Table}
\label{tab:table}
\begin{tabular}{M{0.1\textwidth} M{0.2\textwidth} M{0.2\textwidth} M{0.23\textwidth} M{0.12\textwidth}}
TEXT & TEXT & TEXT & TEXT & TEXT \\ \specialrule{.2em}{.1em}{.1em} 
TEXT & \multirow{3}{*}[-2pt]{MULTI} & TEXT & TEXT & TEXT \\
TEXT &  & TEXT & TEXT & TEXT \\
TEXT &  & TEXT & TEXT & TEXT \\  \specialrule{.1em}{.05em}{.05em}
\end{tabular}

\end{table}

\end{document}

Answer 2

As mentioned @Sebastián V. Romero in his answer, if you not like to have horizontal lines (in your case they are drawn by by command \hline), remove those commands from your table body code.

Beside this your MWE has two issues:

• table is wider than text area (see first table)
• that \multirow cell will not become wider than prescribed width of the column, in which it is, use intesd * option=, which overtake column width setting.

\documentclass{article}
%---------------- show page layout. don't use in a real document!
\usepackage{showframe}
\renewcommand\ShowFrameLinethickness{0.15pt}
\renewcommand*\ShowFrameColor{\color{red}}
%---------------------------------------------------------------%

\usepackage{array, booktabs, multirow}
\usepackage{caption}
\newcolumntype{M}[1]{>{\centering\arraybackslash}m{#1}}

\begin{document}
    \begin{table}[ht]
    \centering
\caption{Table (1)}
\label{tab:table}
\begin{tabular}{*{5}{M{0.2\textwidth}}}
    \toprule %?
TEXT & TEXT                     & TEXT & TEXT & TEXT \\ 
    \midrule
TEXT & \multirow{3}{=}{MULTI}   & TEXT & TEXT & TEXT \\
TEXT &                          & TEXT & TEXT & TEXT \\
TEXT &                          & TEXT & TEXT & TEXT \\  
    \bottomrule
\end{tabular}
    \end{table}

    \begin{table}[ht]
    \centering
\caption{Table (2)}
\label{tab:table}
\begin{tabular}{ *{5}{M{\dimexpr0.2\textwidth-2\tabcolsep}} }
    \toprule %?
TEXT & TEXT                     & TEXT & TEXT & TEXT \\
    \midrule
TEXT & \multirow{3}{=}{MULTI}   & TEXT & TEXT & TEXT \\
TEXT &                          & TEXT & TEXT & TEXT \\
TEXT &                          & TEXT & TEXT & TEXT \\
    \bottomrule
\end{tabular}
    \end{table}
\end{document}

(red lines indicate page layout)

Addedndum (edited): In the case, that content of the multi row cell (MULTI) should be horizontally centered, you need to change \multirowsetup:

\renewcommand\multirowsetup{\centering}  

i.e.: complete MWE for the second table is than:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array, booktabs, multirow}
\usepackage{caption}
\newcolumntype{M}[1]{>{\centering\arraybackslash}m{#1}}

\begin{document}

    \begin{table}[ht]
    \centering
\caption{Table (2)}
\label{tab:table}
\renewcommand\multirowsetup{\centering}  % <---
\begin{tabular}{ *{5}{M{\dimexpr0.2\textwidth-2\tabcolsep}} }
    \toprule %?
TEXT & TEXT & TEXT & TEXT & TEXT \\
    \midrule
TEXT & \multirow{3}{=}{MULTI}    
            & TEXT & TEXT & TEXT \\
TEXT &      & TEXT & TEXT & TEXT \\
TEXT &      & TEXT & TEXT & TEXT \\
    \bottomrule
\end{tabular}
    \end{table}
\end{document}