Itemize in Tabular raises "Something wrong--perhaps a missing \item"

Question

By trying to compile the code below the following error will be raised for each \item entry.

Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item

\begin{tabular}{ll}
    560 v. Chr. & \begin{itemize}
                     \item erster Eintrag
                     \item zweiter Eintrag
                     \item dritter Eintrag 
                  \end{itemize} \\
\end{tabular}

score 10 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 15 '17 at 21:01

itemize inside tabular is allowed, but properly used. In the following there are two examples of usage, with different outputs.

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

%\begin{tabular}{ll}
\begin{tabular}{lp{8cm}}
    560 v. Chr. & \begin{itemize}
                     \item erster Eintrag
                     \item zweiter Eintrag
                     \item dritter Eintrag 
                  \end{itemize} \\
\end{tabular}

\begin{tabular}{lp{8cm}}
  560 v. Chr. & \parbox{7.9cm}{\begin{itemize}
                     \item erster Eintrag
                     \item zweiter Eintrag
                     \item dritter Eintrag 
                  \end{itemize} }\\
\end{tabular}

\end{document}

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is there a way to use tabularx's X option, i.e. not specifying the width of the column with p{}, but adjusting it dynamically as 1/3 of \linewidth? My header would be \begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{X | X | X } — Marie. P., Jul 12 '21 at 18:03

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 14 '17 at 12:11

3

An itemize inside a tabular cell is not allowed.

Use:

\begin{tabular}{ll}
560 v. Chr. & erster Eintrag\\
            & zweiter Eintrag\\
            & dritter Eintrag\\ 
\end{tabular}

Otherwise, if you want LaTeX to automatically break the line, use:

\begin{tabular}{lp{5cm}}
560 v. Chr. & erster Eintrag zweiter Eintrag dritter Eintrag\\ 
\end{tabular}

edited Jul 14 '17 at 12:11

Troy

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answered Nov 29 '13 at 17:00

Claudio

146

Thanks, but now the text is not going over the border of the document and I haven't got any itemize symbol. Is there a way to fix this? – Nov 29 '13 at 17:23
I've updated my answer to take into account your comment. – Nov 30 '13 at 13:15
\itemize environment is actually allowed for "p-columns", as illustrated in that other answer, for instance. – Olivier Dec 17 '23 at 15:34

Itemize in Tabular raises "Something wrong--perhaps a missing \item"

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