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I can't seem to use the float top function.

\documentclass[letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}

\begin{document}
\subsection{Experimental Results}
\begin{table*}[t!]
\begin{tabularx}
\end{tabularx}
\end{table*}
\end{document}
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    Welcome to TeX.SX! Please make your code compilable (if possible), or at least complete it with \documentclass{...}, the required \usepackage's, \begin{document}, and \end{document}. That may seem tedious to you, but think of the extra work it represents for TeX.SX users willing to give you a hand. Help them help you: remove that one hurdle between you and a solution to your problem. – dexteritas Jul 07 '17 at 15:07
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    Your example is still not working and if I make it working by adding a width and a column declaration it doesn't show the problem. Nevertheless: table* makes sense only with option twocolumn for article class. You should use table (without *). For table* (with twocolumn) it is a documented feature to put tables not on the current page but at the next one. – Schweinebacke Jul 07 '17 at 15:13
  • @Schweinebacke It's not a bug, it's a feature. :) – Fran Jul 07 '17 at 16:30

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If you insert some text into the tabular the code works and the table is placed in the top. Of course you should consider the comment of Schweinebacke. The table* environment is used to make a tabular over both columns of a twocolumn article.

\documentclass[letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}

\begin{document}
\subsection{Experimental Results}
\begin{table}[t!]
    \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|X|X|}
        \hline
        a & b\\
        \hline
    \end{tabularx}
\end{table}
\end{document}

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