Border with multirow and multicolumn

Question

Following example:

\usepackage{multirow}

\begin{tabular}{cc|c|c|c|c|c|}
\cline{3-7}
& & \multicolumn{5}{c|}{something} \\ \cline{3-7}
& & AAA & BBB & CCC & DDD & EEE\\ \hline
\multicolumn{1}{|c|}{\multirow{3}{*}{\rotatebox[origin=c]{90}{sth}} } 
& line 1 & x & x & x & x & x \\ \cline{2-7}
& line 2 & x & x & x & x & x \\ \cline{2-7}
\end{tabular}

Why is the border on the left side missing?

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Why can I not make the columns fixed width (like c{4cm})? this gives me an error message ' Illegal pream-token (2.0cm): `c' used.' but I am pretty sure it has worked for me like this...

The 5 right columns should be equally wide to fill the page width. — Willi Fischer, May 22 '15 at 11:21

Bernard · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-26T10:34:26.063

6

Here is a solution. I took the opportunity to improve the vertical padding of cells, and defined a \nocell command to have a number of empty cells; its argument is the number of consecutive empty cells.

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{array, makecell, rotating}
\setcellgapes{2pt}
\newcommand\nocell[1]{\multicolumn{#1}{c|}{}}

\begin{document}

\makegapedcells
\begin{tabular}{|c*{6}{|p{2cm}}|}
  \cline{3-7}
  \nocell{2}& \multicolumn{5}{c|}{something} \\ \cline{3-7}
  \nocell{2} & AAA & BBB & CCC & DDD & EEE\\ \hline
  \multirowcell{2}[0.5ex]{\rotatebox[origin=c]{90}{sth}} & line 1 & x & x & x & x & x \\ \cline{2-7}
 & line 2 & x & x & x & x & x \\ \cline{1-7}
\end{tabular}

\end{document}

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edited May 26 '15 at 10:34

answered May 22 '15 at 12:13

Bernard

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Thanks, especially the new command is useful. However, do you maybe also have an idea what is wrong with my example, since it really puzzles me? – Willi Fischer May 26 '15 at 10:23
3

Yes: it seems to be the \multicolumn{…} command which makes latex think there's only one row. If at the beginning of the last line, you add an empty cell via \multicolumn{1}{|c|}{} as a workaround, you'll get a full vertical line. Btw, I've just added a small correction to \multirow{cell} for a better centring of the rotated text. – Bernard May 26 '15 at 10:37

F. Pantigny · Answer 2 · 2022-02-28T07:49:24.157

You can easily draw such table with {NiceTabular} of nicematrix. In that environment, you use \Block to merge cells (both horizontally and vertically) and you use hvlines to draw all the rules excepted in the blocks and in the corners (specified by the key corners).

\documentclass{article}    
\usepackage{nicematrix}
\begin{document}
\setlength{\extrarowheight}{2pt}
\begin{NiceTabular}{ccccccc}[hvlines,corners=NW] % NW = north west
& & \Block{1-5}{something} \ 
& & AAA & BBB & CCC & DDD & EEE\ 
\Block{2-1}<\rotate>{sth}
& line 1 & x & x & x & x & x \ 
& line 2 & x & x & x & x & x \ 
\end{NiceTabular}
\end{document}

You need several compilations (because nicematrix uses PGF/Tikz).

Border with multirow and multicolumn

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