Spanning samples

No spanning

The style element in the head of this entire page contains these style rules for all tables with class="sample":

    <style>
      table.sample
        {
        border:5px inset gray;
        }
      table.sample td
        {
        border: black 1px solid;
        } 
    </style>

These are html tags you type.


    <table class="sample">  
      <caption> No spanning </caption>
      <tr>  
        <td>  A  </td>
        <td>  B  </td>  
        <td>  C  </td>  
      </tr>  
      <tr>  
        <td>  D  </td>
        <td>  E  </td>  
        <td>  F  </td>  
      </tr>  
      <tr>  
        <td>  G  </td>
        <td>  H  </td>  
        <td>  I  </td>  
      </tr>  
    </table>  

This is the resulting web page content:


No spanning
A B C
D E F
G H I


Row spanning

These are html tags you type.


    <table class="sample">  
      <caption> Row spanning </caption>
      <tr>  
        <td rowspan="2">  A  </td>
        <td>  B  </td>  
        <td>  C  </td>  
      </tr>  
      <tr>  

        <td>  E  </td>  
        <td>  F  </td>  
      </tr>  
      <tr>  
        <td>  G  </td>
        <td>  H  </td>  
        <td>  I  </td>  
      </tr>  
    </table>  

This is the resulting web page content:


Row spanning
A B C
E F
G H I


Column spanning

These are html tags you type.


    <table class="sample">  
      <caption> Column spanning </caption>
      <tr>  
        <td colspan="2">  A  </td>

        <td>  C  </td>  
      </tr>  
      <tr>  
        <td>  D  </td>
        <td>  E  </td>  
        <td>  F  </td>  
      </tr>  
      <tr>  
        <td>  G  </td>
        <td>  H  </td>  
        <td>  I  </td>  
      </tr>  
    </table>  

This is the resulting web page content:


Column spanning
A C
D E F
G H I


Row and column spanning

These are html tags you type.


    <table class="sample">  
      <caption> Row and column spanning </caption>
      <tr>  
        <td rowspan="2" colspan="2">  A  </td>

        <td>  C  </td>  
      </tr>  
      <tr>  


        <td>  F  </td>  
      </tr>  
      <tr>  
        <td>  G  </td>
        <td>  H  </td>  
        <td>  I  </td>  
      </tr>  
    </table>  

This is the resulting web page content:


Row and column spanning
A C
F
G H I