How to make table and figure side by side in two column layout?

Question

I copied the floatrow code from this and couldn't make it work with the two columns layout.

\documentclass[journal]{IEEEtran}
\usepackage{amsmath,amsfonts}
\usepackage{algorithmic}
\usepackage{algorithm}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage[caption=false,font=normalsize,labelfont=sf,textfont=sf]{subfig}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{stfloats}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{verbatim}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{cite}
\hyphenation{op-tical net-works semi-conduc-tor IEEE-Xplore}
% updated with editoria
\usepackage{parskip}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{floatrow}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{floatrow}
% Table float box with bottom caption, box width adjusted to content
\newfloatcommand{capbtabbox}{table}[][\FBwidth]
\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}
\blindtext
\begin{figure}
\begin{floatrow}
\ffigbox{%
  \rule{3cm}{3cm}%
}{%
  \caption{A figure}%
}
\capbtabbox{%
  \begin{tabular}{cc} \hline
  Author & Title \ \hline
  Knuth & The \TeX book \
  Lamport & \LaTeX \ \hline
  \end{tabular}
}{%
  \caption{A table}%
}
\end{floatrow}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

How can I fix this?

@topu thanks, I really appericate it. May I ask about applying subfig before accepting it? — hana, Jun 08 '22 at 05:56

mmr · Accepted Answer · 2022-06-08T07:32:34.923

There are many ways you can fix it. I suggest you to rearrange your code as:

\documentclass[journal]{IEEEtran}
\usepackage{floatrow}
% Table float box with bottom caption, box width adjusted to content
\newfloatcommand{capbtabbox}{table}[][\FBwidth]
\usepackage{amsmath,amsfonts}
\usepackage{algorithmic}
\usepackage{algorithm}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{stfloats}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{verbatim}
\usepackage{cite}
\hyphenation{op-tical net-works semi-conduc-tor IEEE-Xplore}
% updated with editoria
\usepackage{parskip}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}
\blindtext
\begin{figure}
\begin{floatrow}
\ffigbox{%
  \rule{3cm}{3cm}%
}{%
  \caption{A figure}%
}
\capbtabbox{%
  \begin{tabular}{cc} \hline
  Author & Title \ \hline
  Knuth & The \TeX book \
  Lamport & \LaTeX \ \hline
  \end{tabular}
}{%
  \caption{A table}%
}
\end{floatrow}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

Is this Ok now? You can also use \subfig to make a figure and table side by side.

Update

Here is another way using minipage.

MWE:

\documentclass[journal]{IEEEtran}
\usepackage{amsmath,amsfonts}
\usepackage{algorithmic}
\usepackage{algorithm}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage[caption=false,font=normalsize,labelfont=sf,textfont=sf]{subfig}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{stfloats}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{verbatim}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{cite}
\hyphenation{op-tical net-works semi-conduc-tor IEEE-Xplore}
% updated with editoria
\usepackage{parskip}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{caption}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
    \centering
    \rule{2.8cm}{2cm}
    \caption{Caption}
    \label{fig:my_label}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[!h]
    %\centering
    \begin{minipage}{.5\linewidth}
        \centering
        \rule{2.8cm}{2cm}
        \captionof{figure}{Figure}
        \label{fig:my_label}
    \end{minipage}%
    \hfill
    \begin{minipage}{.5\linewidth}
          \captionof{table}{Table}
          \label{tab:table1}
          \begin{tabular}{ c c c }
           \toprule
            Name & Age & Height\ \midrule
            John & 29 & 180         \\midrule
            Baker & 35 & 170         \\midrule
            Allen & 60 & 175         \\bottomrule
          \end{tabular}
    \end{minipage}
\end{figure}
\begin{table}[!h]
    \caption{Caption}
    \label{tab:my_label}
    \centering
    \begin{tabular}{ | c|c |}
        x & y \
    \end{tabular}
\end{table}
\end{document}

You have raised several issues in your code. Be careful about using a lot of package file while using.

Thanks.

Thanks, I saw subfig but I thought it is only for figures not tables? — hana, Jun 07 '22 at 04:40
I copied the minipage code from here. https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/157222/putting-figures-side-by-side-using-minipage And I want to make it with \begin{figure} and table from booktabs but couldn't make it work. — hana, Jun 08 '22 at 06:12
@hana Can you give me your latest code MWE for clear understanding. — mmr, Jun 08 '22 at 06:15
Here is my code and you can use any figure. https://pastebin.com/XSBnZTaS — hana, Jun 08 '22 at 06:26
Thanks, it kinds of work but for the table I got a caption like this "Fig. 2. Company" which is not quite right. I want to format it as a table such as TABLE 1. COMPANY and it would be nice if these figure and table can be indexed automatically as well. — hana, Jun 08 '22 at 07:20
@hana Just updated the issue, you can check it now. (the latest update) Using caption package you can fix it easily. thanks — mmr, Jun 08 '22 at 07:33
Thanks, and I know I asked too much but I promise this is the last question. The image and table seem like to be aligned by top. What if I align bottom or middle align them? https://ibb.co/vHrTdjf — hana, Jun 08 '22 at 07:43
I just found a solution here. https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/66109/aligning-a-figure-and-table-side-by-side — hana, Jun 08 '22 at 07:49

How to make table and figure side by side in two column layout?

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