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I have this simple latex table, I want to align top rows(Day, Min Temp, Max Temp) top. How Can I do it ?

begintabular 
 hline
 Day & Min Temp & Max Temp & 
 beginminipagetextwidth
 beginitemize
 setlengthitemindent-.2in
 setlengthitemsep-0.5em
 item El 1
 item El 2
 item El 2
 item El 2
 item El 2
 item El 2
 item El 2
 item El 2
 enditemize
 endminipage 
 \ hline
 Monday & 11C & 22C & A clear day with lots of sunshine. 
 However, the strong breeze will bring down the temperatures. \ hline
endtabular

Thank in advanced !!

Just change

beginminipagetextwidth

to

beginminipage[t]textwidth

i.e., add the [t] positioning specifier.

A full MWE (minimum working example), with some additional tweaks to your code to make the tabular material more appealing from a purely aesthetic point of view.

documentclassarticle
usepackagearray
setlengthextrarowheight2pt
begindocument
begintabular 
 hline
 Day & Min Temp & Max Temp & 
 beginminipage[t]hsize
 beginitemize
 setlengthitemindent-.2in
 setlengthitemsep-0.5em 
 item El 1
 item El 2
 item El 2
 item El 2
 item El 2
 item El 2
 item El 2
 item El 2strut
 enditemize
 endminipage \ 
 hline
 Monday & 11C & 22C & A clear day with lots of sunshine. 
 However, the strong breeze will bring down the temperatures. \ 
 hline
endtabular

enddocument 

With the enumitem package you can define your own itemize environment for tables. In the second example I have used tabularx to make the table as wide as the textwidth:

documentclassarticle
usepackageenumitem

newlisttabitemizeitemize1
setlist[tabitemize]label=textbullet,nosep,after=strut,align=parleft,leftmargin=*,after=vspace-baselineskip,before=vspace-0.75baselineskip

usepackagetabularx

begindocument

begintabular 
 hline
 Day & Min Temp & Max Temp & 

 begintabitemize
 item El 1
 item El 2
 item El 2
 item El 2
 item El 2
 item El 2
 item El 2
 item El 2
 endtabitemize

 \ hline
 Monday & 11C & 22C & A clear day with lots of sunshine. 
 However, the strong breeze will bring down the temperatures. \ hline
endtabular

bigskip

begintabularxtextwidth
 hline
 Day & Min Temp & Max Temp & 

 begintabitemize
 item El 1
 item El 2
 item El 2
 item El 2
 item El 2
 item El 2
 item El 2
 item El 2
 endtabitemize

 \ hline
 Monday & 11C & 22C & A clear day with lots of sunshine. 
 However, the strong breeze will bring down the temperatures. \ hline
endtabularx


enddocument

For a more open look of the table, you could also use the booktabs package:

documentclassarticle
usepackageenumitem

newlisttabitemizeitemize1
setlist[tabitemize]label=textbullet,nosep,after=strut,align=parleft,leftmargin=*,after=vspace-baselineskip,before=vspace-0.75baselineskip

usepackagetabularx
usepackagebooktabs
begindocument

begintabularxtextwidth l l l X 
 toprule
 Day & Min Temp & Max Temp & 

 begintabitemize
 item El 1
 item El 2
 item El 2
 item El 2
 item El 2
 item El 2
 item El 2
 item El 2
 endtabitemize

 \ midrule
 Monday & 11C & 22C & A clear day with lots of sunshine. 
 However, the strong breeze will bring down the temperatures. \ bottomrule
endtabularx


enddocument