How to arrange image and text to appear side by side?

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I want to place an image on my document and have it appear, say, on the right part of the page with text flowing on the left. How can I do that with LaTeX? Just like one would do with HTML and images “floating” to the right (or left).

(when searching I found some similar questions which, however, were closed. I'm actually asking the question because I think it is a good question and should have a good answer on the site. Btw, assume I'm not using beamer nor anything fancy.)

Full example including minimal Spacing around image for wrapfig. — yannisl, May 09 '12 at 19:17

Juan A. Navarro · Accepted Answer · 2023-09-10T10:14:12.093

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The wrapfig package is perhaps the best package to provide such functionality. The following is an example of how to use such package

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx,wrapfig,lipsum}
%------------------------------------------
\begin{document}
This is where the table goes with text wrapping around it. You may 
embed tabular environment inside wraptable environment and customize as you like.
%------------------------------------------
\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{5.5cm}
\caption{A wrapped figure going nicely inside the text.}\label{wrap-fig:1}
\includegraphics[width=5.5cm]{sample}
\end{wrapfigure} 
%------------------------------------------
\lipsum[2-3]
Figure~\ref{wrap-fig:1} is a wrapped figure.
%------------------------------------------
\end{document}

Which produces the following output:

enter image description here

edited Sep 10 '23 at 10:14

answered May 09 '12 at 19:32

Juan A. Navarro

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Do you know a way to make wrapfig respect margins, like graphicx does? If I put the image less than its height from the page end, the image trespasses margins and even page dimensions, getting cut out, instead of going in the next page, so I have to adjust it manually. – Jeffrey Lebowski Feb 03 '16 at 15:57
@JeffreyLebowski Not sure. Maybe you want to write a small example showing the undesired behaviour and post as a new question! – Juan A. Navarro Feb 04 '16 at 09:04
Done! – Jeffrey Lebowski Feb 05 '16 at 11:17
How about the figure on the left? – Peaceful Nov 11 '17 at 06:29
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How does your code work? There is a { besides \lipsum[2-3], but no closing bracket. And then there is a mysterious \par – Fraïssé Dec 08 '18 at 01:45
Yep, there's something wrong here. { and \par can be safely removed ;). – David Guyon Jun 17 '20 at 14:51
I don't have LaTeX at hand to double-check. But remember others can edit/improve the answer if needed. :) – Juan A. Navarro Jun 17 '20 at 18:45
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Note that replacing the r with an R after \begin{wrapfigure} causes the figure to float, which can help prevent the figure from protruding into the margins of the page. – littleO Sep 09 '23 at 04:51

score 10 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

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The wrapfig package is perhaps the package that provides functionality most like a html/css float.

There are 142 posts returned from a search of this site for wrapfig. Yiannis gives one in his comment above, another useful example is

Wrap text around a tabular

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answered May 09 '12 at 19:15

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Thanks, could you please provide a simple example of usage? (Just want to make this an excellent answer!) – Juan A. Navarro May 09 '12 at 19:17
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I wasn't asking for me. I was asking for other people stumbling with this question. – Juan A. Navarro May 09 '12 at 19:32
I stumbled across this answer and it did not help me. We need an example. – Tvde1 Nov 12 '18 at 12:58

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