Centering in tabularx and X columns

Question

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}

do you want to centre an entire column or just one row, or just one cell? — ArTourter, Jan 03 '13 at 20:33

Huugo · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-19T10:53:37.587

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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}

edited Apr 19 '17 at 10:53

answered Jan 08 '13 at 21:26

Huugo

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Would 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) – Zach Smith Dec 03 '17 at 07:40
In my case this solution does not affect the last column, where the content is left-alighed. – Antonio Sesto Mar 08 '23 at 11:34

score 41 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 15 '17 at 16:55

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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}

edited Jul 15 '17 at 16:55

David Carlisle

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answered Jan 03 '13 at 20:47

ArTourter

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how to do the tabularx for \ruggedright? just replacing centering doesnt work :( – ankhi Sep 26 '14 at 19:04
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@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 – ArTourter Sep 27 '14 at 00:45
1

May I ask what the @{} is doing? – Raven Dec 16 '17 at 14:22
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@Raven have a look at this answer. Basically it removes spaces. – ArTourter Dec 16 '17 at 20:14

score 20 · Answer 3 · 2013-01-28T21:33:58.693

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\usepackage{tabularx,ragged2e}
\renewcommand\tabularxcolumn[1]{>{\Centering}p{#1}}

with ragged2e you do not need the \arraybackslash

edited Jan 28 '13 at 21:33

answered Jan 03 '13 at 20:45

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 03 '21 at 01:04

4

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}

answered Sep 03 '21 at 01:04

L.J.R.

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Wow, this is great indeed. LaTeX3 rocks! – Andyc Nov 30 '21 at 11:23

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