Footnote in table

HI,

move the \footnotetext commands outside the table environment; this however will cause the footnotes to appear at the bottom of the page (as the first table in my example below shows); if you want the footnotes to appear right after the table, then you could use the threeparttable package (have a look at the second table in my example code).

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{threeparttable}


\begin{document}

%A table with footnotes appearing at the bottom of the page:
\begin{table}
  \centering
  \begin{tabular}{llll}
  \hline
  column 1 & column 2 & column 3\footnotemark[1] & column 4\footnotemark[2] \\
  \hline
  row 1 & data 1 & data 2 & data 3 \\
  row 2 & data 1 & data 2 & data 3 \\
  row 3 & data 1 & data 2 & data 3 \\
  \hline
  \end{tabular}
  \caption{Table with footnotes at the bottom of the page}
  \label{tab:test1}
\end{table}
\footnotetext[1]{table footnote 1}
\footnotetext[2]{table footnote 2}

\clearpage

%A table with footnotes appearing at the bottom of the table:
\begin{table}
  \centering
  \begin{threeparttable}[b]
  \caption{Table with footnotes after the table}
  \label{tab:test2}
  \begin{tabular}{llll}
  \hline
  column 1 & column 2 & column 3\tnote{1} & column 4\tnote{2} \\
  \hline
  row 1 & data 1 & data 2 & data 3 \\
  row 2 & data 1 & data 2 & data 3 \\
  row 3 & data 1 & data 2 & data 3 \\
  \hline
  \end{tabular}
  \begin{tablenotes}
    \item[1] tablefootnote 1
    \item[2] tablefootnote 2
  \end{tablenotes}
 \end{threeparttable}
\end{table}

\end{document}

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