Referring to a table in LaTeX [closed]

How can you refer to a table number such that you get Table 7 for instance?

Sample data

Table \ref{table:questions} lorem lorem ipsun. \begin{table} \label{table:questions} \begin{tabular}{| p{5cm} | p{5cm} | p{5cm} |} -- cut -- \end{tabular} \end{table} 

I get

Table 2.5 lorem lorem ipsun. 

where 2.5 is the chapter number.

1 Answer

You must place the label after a caption in order to for label to store the table's number, not the chapter's number.

 \begin{table} \begin{tabular}{| p{5cm} | p{5cm} | p{5cm} |} -- cut -- \end{tabular} \caption{My table} \label{table:kysymys} \end{table} Table \ref{table:kysymys} on page \pageref{table:kysymys} refers to the ...