Text vertical alignment inside cell

Question

I found few question about this but I cannot get it work. I want that everything inside my table is centred vertically and horizontally.

\begin{table}[h!]\centering
    \begin{tabular}{cccccc}
        \hline
        & LH                    & RH                    & \multicolumn{2}{l}{Adjust Phase}              &  \\ \hline
        \multicolumn{1}{l|}{TE11-TE21}      & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{\includegraphics[width=0.15\textwidth]{figure/te1121_lh}} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{\includegraphics[width=0.15\textwidth]{figure/te1121_rh}} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{\includegraphics[width=0.15\textwidth]{figure/te1121_corr}} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{$e^{-j90^\circ}$} &  \\ \hline
        \multicolumn{1}{l|}{HE11-HE21}      & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{} &  \\ \hline
        \multicolumn{1}{l|}{TE11-TM01/TE01} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{} &  \\ \hline
        \multicolumn{1}{l|}{HE11-TM01/TE01} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{} & 
    \end{tabular}
    \caption{My caption}
\label{my-label}
\end{table}

An answer here said that m inside multicolumn does the work, but when I try to replace \multicolumn{1}{l|} with \multicolumn{1}{m|} gives me multiple errors. What can I do?

The m column specifier (as well as p or b) is for columns in paragraph mode, ans it requires an argument – the column width. — Bernard, Jun 26 '18 at 09:42
Here [https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/113022/vertical-alignment-in-tabular-cells-with-variable-height] used \multicolumn{1}{|m{\tempwidth}|} but give me error as well — Shika93, Jun 26 '18 at 09:51
If you want everything to be vertically and horizontally centered, why do you use \multicolumn{1}{l|} commands? Also, why do you specify 6 columns, as you only seem to use 5 of them? — leandriis, Jun 26 '18 at 11:43
For further information on the alignment of images, you might also want to have a look here: How to vertically center text with an image in the same row of a table — leandriis, Jun 26 '18 at 11:48

Zarko · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-26T14:13:03.040

with use of the macro valign=c from the package adjustbox and with some effort to make table code shoerter:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage[export]{adjustbox}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{makecell}
\setcellgapes{5pt}

\begin{document}
    \begin{table}[htb]
\centering
\makegapedcells
\setkeys{Gin}{width=\linewidth}
 \begin{tabular}{l|*{3}{p{0.15\textwidth}|}c}
    \hline
            & LH        & RH                & Adjust Phase      &   \\
        \hline
TE11-TE21   & \includegraphics[valign=c]{example-image}    & \includegraphics[valign=c]{example-image}
            & \includegraphics[valign=c]{example-image}       & $e^{-j90^\circ}$  \\  \hline
HE11-HE21       &       &                   &                   &                   \\  \hline
TE11-TM01/TE01  &       &                   &                   &                   \\  \hline
HE11-TM01/TE01  &       &                   &                   &                   \\  \hline
    \end{tabular}
    \caption{My caption}
\label{my-label}
\end{table}
\end{document}

if you rely kike to have contents in all cells horizontally centered, than define table columns as

\begin{tabular}{c|*{3}{p{0.15\textwidth}|}c} % in first column use "c" instead "l"

than you will obtain:

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 26 '18 at 10:45

You can obtain what you want with a \raisebox{-0.5\height} (approximately):

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{geometry} 
\usepackage{graphicx} 

\begin{document}

\begin{table}[h!]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{l|*{4}{c|}c}
        \hline
        & LH & RH & \multicolumn{2}{l}{Adjust Phase} & \\ \hline
         TE11-TE21 & \raisebox{-0.46\height}{\includegraphics[width=0.15\textwidth]{femme-araignee}}& \raisebox{-0.46\height}{\includegraphics[width=0.15\textwidth]{femme-araignee}} & \raisebox{-0.46\height}{\includegraphics[width=0.2\textwidth]{snark}} & $e^{-j90^\circ}$ & \\ \hline
        \multicolumn{1}{l|}{HE11-HE21} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{} & \\ \hline
        \multicolumn{1}{l|}{TE11-TM01/TE01} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{} & \\ \hline
        \multicolumn{1}{l|}{HE11-TM01/TE01} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{} &
    \end{tabular}
    \caption{My caption}
\label{my-label}
\end{table}

\end{document}

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 26 '18 at 21:26

I guess you're using some external utility for making the table, which would explain the wealth of useless \multicolumn commands.

Here are two forms for your table, one jailed and one without vertical rules.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[export]{adjustbox}
\usepackage{booktabs} % for the better table

\newcommand{\vcincludegraphics}[2][]{%
  \includegraphics[#1,valign=c]{#2}%
}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}[htp!]
\centering

\begin{tabular}{|l|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
  & LH
  & RH
  & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{Adjust Phase} \\
\hline
TE11-TE21
  & \vcincludegraphics[width=0.15\textwidth]{example-image}
  & \vcincludegraphics[width=0.15\textwidth]{example-image}
  & \vcincludegraphics[width=0.15\textwidth]{example-image}
  & $e^{-j90^\circ}$ \\
\hline
HE11-HE21      & & & & \\
\hline
TE11-TM01/TE01 & & & & \\
\hline
HE11-TM01/TE01 & & & & \\
\hline
\end{tabular}

\caption{My caption}
\label{my-label}

\end{table}

\begin{table}[htp!]
\centering

\begin{tabular}{@{}lcccc@{}}
\toprule
  & LH
  & RH
  & \multicolumn{2}{c}{Adjust Phase} \\
\cmidrule(lr){2-2}\cmidrule(lr){3-3}\cmidrule(l){4-5}
TE11-TE21
  & \vcincludegraphics[width=0.15\textwidth]{example-image}
  & \vcincludegraphics[width=0.15\textwidth]{example-image}
  & \vcincludegraphics[width=0.15\textwidth]{example-image}
  & $e^{-j90^\circ}$ \\
\addlinespace
HE11-HE21
  & \vcincludegraphics[width=0.15\textwidth]{example-image}
  & \vcincludegraphics[width=0.15\textwidth]{example-image}
  & \vcincludegraphics[width=0.15\textwidth]{example-image}
  & $e^{-j90^\circ}$ \\
TE11-TM01/TE01 & & & & \\
HE11-TM01/TE01 & & & & \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}

\caption{My caption for the better table}
\label{my-label-better}

\end{table}

\end{document}

Text vertical alignment inside cell

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