HTML Table Colspan & Rowspan

HTML tables can have cells that spans over multiple rows and/or columns.

colspan is used to merge 2 or more cells horizontally. And rowspan is used to merge 2 or more cells vertically.

Table colspan

To make a cell span over multiple columns, use the colspan attribute:

<table>
    <tr>
        <th>srn</th>
        <td colspan="2">1</td>
        
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <th>Name</th>
        <td>Alfreds</td>
        <td>Devid</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <th>Address</th>
        <td>USA</td>
        <td>Japan</td>
    </tr>
</table>

srn	1
Name	Alfreds	Devid
Address	USA	Japan

Table rowspan

To make a cell span over multiple rows, use the rowspan attribute:

<table>
    <tr>
        <th>Company</th>
        <th>Contact</th>
        <th rowspan="2">Country</th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <th>Alfreds Futterkiste</th>
        <th>Maria Anders</th>
        <th>Germany</th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <th>Centro comercial Moctezuma</th>
        <th>Francisco Chang</th>
    </tr>
</table>

Company	Contact	Country
Alfreds Futterkiste	Maria Anders	Germany
Centro comercial Moctezuma	Francisco Chang	Germany

Conclusion

In this page (written and validated by A. Gawali) you learned about HTML Table colspan and rowspan . What's Next? If you are interested in completing HTML tutorial, your next topic will be learning about: HTML Table styling.

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