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# How do I add a caption to a table?

You can add a caption to a table by wrapping the `tabular` environment in a `table` environment:

```latex
\begin{table}
\caption{Your caption.}
\label{demo-table}
\begin{tabular}
...
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
```

The following code, which also uses the `center` environment, demonstrates adding a table caption. It also uses `\label{demo-table}` to create a label for use in referencing the table (via `\ref{demo-table}`):

```latex
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Table \ref{demo-table} has a caption:
\begin{table}[!h]
\begin{center}
\caption{Your caption.}
\label{demo-table}
\begin{tabular}{||c c c c||}
 \hline
 Col1 & Col2 & Col2 & Col3 \\ [0.5ex]
 \hline\hline
 1 & 6 & 87837 & 787 \\
 \hline
 2 & 7 & 78 & 5415 \\
 \hline
 3 & 545 & 778 & 7507 \\
 \hline
 4 & 545 & 18744 & 7560 \\
 \hline
 5 & 88 & 788 & 6344 \\ [1ex]
 \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}
\end{document}
```

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This example produces the following output, with the table centred on the page:

![Adding a table caption to a table in LaTeX](/files/wFdg0C96CRt2mACdEhsb)

Note that the `table` environment will also let the table "float" to where LaTeX thinks it should go. Here, we applied the *float placement specifier* `!h` to place the table "here", encouraging LaTeX to locate it below the line of text. If you want more control over float placement, you can use additional specifiers as described in [this section of the LaTeX Wikibook](http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Floats,_Figures_and_Captions#Figures).


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