Placing graphics/images inside a table

Pictures do not necessarily have to be placed inside the figure environment, but can perfectly be included inside table cells.

The advantage is, you can without any effort arrange a series of images in a matrix and individually scale them.

And here is how you would do it: You first need the graphicx package to include graphics:

\usepackage{graphicx}

Now you can directly start with your table environment and add graphics:

\begin{table}[ht]

\caption{A table arranging images}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{cc}
\includegraphics[scale=1]{graphic1}&\includegraphics[scale=1]{graphic2}\\
\newline
\includegraphics[scale=1]{graphic3}&\includegraphics[scale=1]{graphic4}\\
\end{tabular}
\label{tab:gt}

\end{table}%

Note: In order to have visual borders, you would have \hline instead of \newline and use horizontal bars in the column definition of the tabular environment (“|c|c|” instead of “cc”).

The downside of this technique is obvious, you do not have access to features provided by the figure environment like a label or caption. Nevertheless, it might still come in handy in certain situations.

Note: The figures will not appear in the \listoffigures index, for the reason mentioned above.

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Tags: caption, figure, hline, label, LaTex, table, tabular