Automatically adjusting multirow height in tabular

Question

I am trying to create a table which contains (multiple) multirow cells with a certain width, automatically wrapping the text. However, when the text is too long, it spills over to the next cell.

I know I can use the \\[1cm] to manually solve this problem (also see Auto resize tabular row height) but I want to do this automatically. Is this possible?

Here is a MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{multirow}

\begin{document}

\noindent\begin{tabular}{p{4cm}|c}
     A & B  \\\hline
     \multirow{2}{4cm}{My long text here is ok, not long enough to spill} & 1 \\\cline{2-2}
      & 2 \\\hline
     \multirow{2}{4cm}{Other text here} & 3 \\\cline{2-2}
      & 4 \\\hline
\end{tabular}

\vspace{3cm}

\noindent\begin{tabular}{p{4cm}|c}
     A & B  \\\hline
     \multirow{2}{4cm}{My super long text here will spill over to the next line. How do I avoid this?} & 1 \\\cline{2-2}
      & 2 \\\hline
     \multirow{2}{4cm}{Other text here} & 3 \\\cline{2-2}
      & 4 \\\hline
\end{tabular}

\end{document}

Output:

I will accept answers using other environments/packages.

Answer 1

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{multirow}

\begin{document}

With multirow and a manually addd empty line: 


\noindent\begin{tabular}{p{4cm}|c}
     A & B  \\\hline
     \multirow{2}{=}{My super long text here will spill over to the next line. How do I avoid this?} & 1 \\\cline{2-2}
      & 2 \\ 
      \\ \hline
     \multirow{2}{=}{Other text here} & 3 \\\cline{2-2}
      & 4 \\\hline
\end{tabular}

\vspace{1cm}

With nested tabulars:

\noindent\begin{tabular}{p{4cm}|@{}c@{}}
     A & B  \\
     \hline
     My super long text here will spill over to the next line. How do I avoid this? 
       & \begin{tabular}[t]{c} 1 \\ \hline 2 \end{tabular} \\ 
     \hline
     Other text here & \begin{tabular}[t]{c} 3 \\ \hline 4 \end{tabular} \\
      \hline
\end{tabular}


\end{document}

---

For vertically centerd cells you could use the cellspace package. IIf the lenght of the text in the first column or the number of row in the second column changes, the value of \cellspacetoplimit has to be adjusted accordingly.

\documentclass{article} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{array}

\usepackage[column=0]{cellspace} \setlength{\cellspacetoplimit}{0.5\baselineskip} \setlength{\cellspacebottomlimit}{\cellspacetoplimit} \begin{document}

\noindent\begin{tabular}{m{4cm}|@{}c@{}}
     A & B  \\
     \hline
     My super long text here will spill over to the next line. How do I avoid this? 
       & \begin{tabular}{0c} 1 \\ \hline 2 \end{tabular} \\ 
     \hline
     Other text here & \begin{tabular}{c} 3 \\ \hline 4 \end{tabular} \\
      \hline \end{tabular}


\end{document}

Answer 2

How about this (not really automatic) hack?

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{multirow, makecell, booktabs}

\begin{document}

\noindent
\begin{tabular}{m{4cm}|c}
     A & B \\\hline
    My super long text here will spill over to the next line. How do I avoid this? & \makecell{1 \\[0.5ex] \cmidrule(l{-7pt}r{-7pt}){1-1} 2}\\\hline
     \multirow{2}{=}{Other text here} & 3 \\\cline{2-2}
      & 4 \\\hline
\end{tabular}

\end{document} 

Answer 3

Using tabularray package:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularray}
\begin{document}


\SetTblrInner{rowsep=0pt}
\noindent\begin{tblr}{p{4cm}|c}
     A & B  \\\hline
     \SetCell[r=2]{} My super long text here will spill over to the next line. How do I avoid this? & 1 \\\cline{2-2}
      & 2 \\\hline
     \SetCell[r=2]{} Other text here & 3 \\\cline{2-2}
      & 4 \\\hline
\end{tblr}

\end{document}