colspan

Question

what is colspan???

Answer 1

<table>
<tr>
<td>first row, first cell</td>
<td>first row, second cell</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">second row, covers two cells</td>
</tr>
</table>

Answer 2

'colspan' define the number of cells in a <table> row that are merged.

'rowspan' do same for many cells in a <table> column...

Cells merged don't have to be define in <table> tree: if you 'colspan' a cell, the count of <td>s elements in the shared parent <td> must be adapted consequently... ( for a 4 columns table, if you define one <td> with colspan value 2, you will have 3 instead 4 <td> at all in the parent <tr> )