When I have a manual line break in a cell of a tabularx table, then the vertical line goes missing.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage[sfdefault]{cabin}
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\newcolumntype{Y}{>{\centering\arraybackslash}X}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{lc|l|Y|Y|Y|Y}
\hline
% Row
Text & & & & & & \\ \hline
% Row
Text\\ Text & & & & & & \\ \hline
\end{tabularx}
\end{document}
If you want line breaks in one of the l, c, r column types, you have to load makecell package and use its eponymous command. Otherwise, \\ is taken as a row change. With this code, it's fine:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx, makecell}
\usepackage{fontawesome}
\usepackage[sfdefault]{cabin}
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\newcolumntype{Y}{>{\centering\arraybackslash}X}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{lc|l|Y|Y|Y|Y}
\hline
% Row
Text & & & & & & \\ \hline
% Row
\makecell[l]{Text\\ Text} & & & & & & \\ \hline
\end{tabularx}
\end{document}
makecell package seems to be very useful. Some of my last table-related questions were solved by using it.
– Dr. Manuel Kuehner
May 01 '17 at 19:55
You can always put boxes in tables in which \\ doesn't end the table row. One handy command is \pbox as it doesn't use more space than necessary but has a maximum width. Unfortunately, the vertical spacing doesn't fit with just \pbox. Here is an example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{pbox}
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\newcolumntype{Y}{>{\centering\arraybackslash}X}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{lc|l|Y|Y|Y|Y}
\hline
% Row
Text & & & & & & \\ \hline
% Row
\pbox{\textwidth}{Text\\ Text} & & & & & & \\ \hline
\end{tabularx}
\end{document}
One can clearly see, that the vertical spacing isn't right in the above image.
Text\\ Text & & & & & & \\ \hlineif the firs text is own row (inlcolumn type only this is sensible, since it is not designe for multline contents)than it should follows ampersands for each empty cell. – Zarko May 01 '17 at 19:41\\\isn't "allowed" with in a cell? – Dr. Manuel Kuehner May 01 '17 at 19:45\rowcolor, which also only colors the cells which are existent. If you end a line in atabularthe remaining cells are non existent to those formattings. – Skillmon May 01 '17 at 19:50\\ends the row so that row only has one cell. The vertical lines are all the right hand content of a cell (except the first cell which has left and right rules) so if you omit the cell the line goes, just as if you omit it with\multicolumn– David Carlisle May 01 '17 at 19:53