How can I center the column when using X in tabularx environment like in this example?
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{@{}lXXXXX@{}}
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 \\
\end{tabularx}
4 Answers
I recently dealt with the same task, so here I present my solution: I defined a new columntype Y to center the cells in a tabularxenvironment.
In the preamble define:
\newcolumntype{Y}{>{\centering\arraybackslash}X}
to typeset the example simply enter
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{@{}lYYYYY@{}}
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6\\
\end{tabularx}
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2Would it be on topic to expand this answer to how to center a specific row? (if there is such an elegant solution to do so) Dec 3, 2017 at 7:40
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In my case this solution does not affect the last column, where the content is left-alighed. Mar 8 at 11:34
You have two solutions (well at least)
If you are bound to tabularx then you can use
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{@{}l *5{>{\centering\arraybackslash}X}@{}}
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6\\
\end{tabularx}
Alternatively you can use the tabu package which offers you a lot more flexibility:
\begin{tabu} to \textwidth {@{} l *5{X[c]}@{}}
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6\\
\end{tabu}
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1how to do the tabularx for \ruggedright? just replacing centering doesnt work :(– ankhiSep 26, 2014 at 19:04
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3@ankhi probably because it is spelt
\raggedright! However, a solution to this question (and this really should be a separate question rather than a comment to a vaguely related one), is given in this answer which uses the same package as suggested by herbert below Sep 27, 2014 at 0:45 -
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\usepackage{tabularx,ragged2e}
\renewcommand\tabularxcolumn[1]{>{\Centering}p{#1}}
with ragged2e you do not need the \arraybackslash
It’s easy peasy to set cell alignment with tblr environment of the new LaTeX3 package tabularray:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularray}
\begin{document}
\begin{tblr}{
colspec = {@{}X[c]X[l]X[c]X[r]X[c]@{}},
hlines, vlines,
}
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 \\
\end{tblr}
\end{document}
cinstead ofX.