diff --git a/src/resources/filters/quarto-pre/table-captions.lua b/src/resources/filters/quarto-pre/table-captions.lua
index dbbee6f5ceb..6a1f8246220 100644
--- a/src/resources/filters/quarto-pre/table-captions.lua
+++ b/src/resources/filters/quarto-pre/table-captions.lua
@@ -6,17 +6,29 @@ kTblSubCap = "tbl-subcap"
 
 local latexTableWithOptionsPattern = "(\\begin{table}%[%w+%])(.*)(\\end{table})"
 local latexTablePattern = "(\\begin{table})(.*)(\\end{table})"
+local latexLongtablePatternwWithPosAndAlign = "(\\begin{longtable}%[[^%]]+%]{.*})(.*)(\\end{longtable})"
+local latexLongtablePatternWithPos = "(\\begin{longtable}%[[^%]]+%])(.*)(\\end{longtable})"
+local latexLongtablePatternWithAlign = "(\\begin{longtable}{.*})(.*)(\\end{longtable})"
 local latexLongtablePattern = "(\\begin{longtable})(.*)(\\end{longtable})"
+local latexTabularPatternWithPosAndAlign = "(\\begin{tabular}%[[^%]]+%]{.*})(.*)(\\end{tabular})"
+local latexTabularPatternWithPos = "(\\begin{tabular}%[[^%]]+%])(.*)(\\end{tabular})"
+local latexTabularPatternWithAlign = "(\\begin{tabular}{.*})(.*)(\\end{tabular})"
 local latexTabularPattern = "(\\begin{tabular})(.*)(\\end{tabular})"
 
 local latexTablePatterns = pandoc.List({
   latexTableWithOptionsPattern,
   latexTablePattern,
+  latexLongtablePatternwWithPosAndAlign,
+  latexLongtablePatternWithPos,
+  latexLongtablePatternWithAlign,
   latexLongtablePattern,
+  latexTabularPatternWithPosAndAlign,
+  latexTabularPatternWithPos,
+  latexTabularPatternWithAlign,
   latexTabularPattern,
 })
 
-local latexCaptionPattern =  "(\\caption{)(.-)(}\n)"
+local latexCaptionPattern =  "(\\caption{)(.-)(}[^\n]*\n)"
 
 function tableCaptions() 
   
@@ -206,7 +218,7 @@ function applyLatexTableCaption(latex, tblCaption, tblLabel, tablePattern)
   -- insert caption if there is none
   local beginCaption, caption = latex:match(latexCaptionPattern)
   if not beginCaption then
-    latex = latex:gsub(tablePattern, "%1" .. "\n\\caption{ }\n" .. "%2%3", 1)
+    latex = latex:gsub(tablePattern, "%1" .. "\n\\caption{ }\\tabularnewline\n" .. "%2%3", 1)
   end
   -- apply table caption and label
   local beginCaption, captionText, endCaption = latex:match(latexCaptionPattern)
diff --git a/tests/docs/crossrefs/knitr-tables-latex.qmd b/tests/docs/crossrefs/knitr-tables-latex.qmd
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d23593212ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/docs/crossrefs/knitr-tables-latex.qmd
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+---
+title: "knitr-tables-latex"
+format: 
+  pdf:
+    keep-tex: true
+    keep-md: true
+knitr: 
+  opts_chunk: 
+    echo: false
+---
+
+```{r}
+#| label: tbl-1
+#| tbl-cap: "Markdown table"
+knitr::kable(head(iris))
+```
+
+```{r}
+#| label: tbl-2
+#| tbl-cap: "Tabular"
+knitr::kable(head(iris), format = "latex")
+```
+
+```{r}
+#| label: tbl-3
+#| tbl-cap: "Longtable"
+knitr::kable(
+  head(mtcars), 
+  format = "latex",
+  longtable = TRUE
+)
+```
+
+```{r}
+#| label: tbl-4
+#| tbl-cap: "Two tables placed side by side."
+d1 <- head(cars, 3)
+d2 <- head(mtcars[, 1:3], 5)
+knitr::kable(
+  list(d1, d2),
+  valign = 'c'
+)
+```
+
+
+Markdown source for @tbl-1
+
+LaTeX source with tabulat for @tbl-2
+
+LaTeX source with longtable for @tbl-3
+
+LaTeX source with table and tabular for @tbl-4
diff --git a/tests/smoke/crossref/tables.test.ts b/tests/smoke/crossref/tables.test.ts
index ca247cd7b9e..635dd8a0fdd 100644
--- a/tests/smoke/crossref/tables.test.ts
+++ b/tests/smoke/crossref/tables.test.ts
@@ -6,8 +6,11 @@
 */
 
 import { ensureFileRegexMatches, ensureHtmlElements } from "../../verify.ts";
-import { testRender } from "../render/render.ts";
+import { testRender, renderVerifyLatexOutput } from "../render/render.ts";
 import { crossref } from "./utils.ts";
+import { docs } from "../../utils.ts";
+
+/* HTML */
 
 const tablesQmd = crossref("tables.qmd", "html");
 testRender(tablesQmd.input, "html", false, [
@@ -44,3 +47,14 @@ testRender(knitrTablesQmd.input, "html", false, [
     /\?@tbl-/,
   ]),
 ]);
+
+/* LaTeX */
+
+/* caption is inserted in the right place in table environment*/
+renderVerifyLatexOutput(docs("crossrefs/knitr-tables-latex.qmd"), [
+  /\\begin{longtable}\[.*\]{.*}.*\n\\caption{\\label{tbl-1}.*}\\tabularnewline/,
+  /\\begin{table}\n\\caption{\\label{tbl-2}.*}.*\n+\\centering\n\\begin{tabular}{.*}/,
+  /\\begin{longtable}{.*}.*\n\\caption{\\label{tbl-3}.*}\\tabularnewline/,
+  /\\begin{table}\n\\caption{\\label{tbl-4}.*}.*\n+\\centering\n\\begin{tabular}\[c\]{.*}/,
+  /\\begin{table}\n\\caption{\\label{tbl-4}.*}.*\n+\\centering\n\\begin{tabular}\[c\]{.*}/,
+]);