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I don't know how to merge rows and columns inside HTML tables.
Can you please help me with making such a table in HTML?
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You can use rowspan="n" on a td element to make it span n rows, and colspan="m" on a td element to make it span m columns. Looks like your first td needs a rowspan="2" and the next td needs a colspan="4" . Show activity on this post. Show activity on this post.
Specifies the number of rows a cell should span. Note: rowspan="0" tells the browser to span the cell to the last row of the table section (thead, tbody, or tfoot). Chrome, Firefox, and Opera 12 (and earlier versions) support rowspan="0".
The colspan attribute in HTML specifies the number of columns a cell should span. It allows the single table cell to span the width of more than one cell or column. It provides the same functionality as “merge cell” in a spreadsheet program like Excel.
Of course, you can mix colspan and rowspan to get a range of various tables. Example 4-13 demonstrates a mix of column and row spanning.
The colspan attribute, which means “column span” will span the cell over the number of cells that is specified. This means, in this example, that there is no need for a third td element — two cells are merged into one. The rowspan attribute is similar to colspan, except, obviously, it will span across rows rather than columns.
As with td elements, these must be enclosed inside tr elements. colspan and rowspan attributes have also been used in some of the td tags. If you look at this code in a browser, you will see that on the second row there are now two cells instead of three, the second cell spanning the second and third column.
Colspan The colspan attribute defines the number of columns a cell should span (or merge) horizontally. That is, you want to merge two or more Cells in a row into a single Cell.
You can use rowspan="n" on a td element to make it span n rows, and colspan="m" on a td element to make it span m columns. Looks like your first td needs a rowspan="2" and the next td needs a colspan="4". Colspan and Rowspan A table is divided into rows and each row is divided into cells.
If you're confused how table layouts work, they basically start at x=0, y=0 and work their way across. Let's explain with graphics, because they're so much fun!
When you start a table, you make a grid. Your first row and cell will be in the top left corner. Think of it like an array pointer, moving to the right with each incremented value of x, and moving down with each incremented value of y.
For your first row, you're only defining two cells. One spans 2 rows down and one spans 4 columns across. So when you reach the end of your first row, it looks something like this:
<table> <tr> <td rowspan="2"></td> <td colspan="4"></td> </tr> </table> Now that the row has ended, the "array pointer" jumps down to the next row. Since x position 0 is already taken up by a previous cell, x jumps to position 1 to start filling in cells. * See note about difference between rowspans.
This row has four cells in it which are all 1x1 blocks, filling in the same width of the row above it.
<table> <tr> <td rowspan="2"></td> <td colspan="4"></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> </table> The next row is all 1x1 cells. But, for example, what if you added an extra cell? Well, it would just pop off the edge to the right.
<table> <tr> <td rowspan="2"></td> <td colspan="4"></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> </table> * But what if we instead (rather than adding the extra cell) made all these cells have a rowspan of 2? The thing you need to consider here is that even though you're not going to be adding any more cells in the next row, the row still must exist (even though it's an empty row). If you did try to add new cells in the row immediately after, you'd notice that it would start adding them to the end of the bottom row.
<table> <tr> <td rowspan="2"></td> <td colspan="4"></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"></td> <td rowspan="2"></td> <td rowspan="2"></td> <td rowspan="2"></td> <td rowspan="2"></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> </tr> </table> Enjoy the wonderful world of creating tables!
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