Question

What for are rowspan and colspan attributes used?

Answer 1

Sometimes, a table cell is bigger than other cells. Its span is spread to more rows or columns. Such cells can be created with rowspan and colspan. For instance, the following code will produce the table shown below in which cells have different span.

<HTML>
<BODY>
<TABLE BORDER>
<TR>
    <TD ALIGN=center ROWSPAN=2 COLSPAN=2>A</TD>
    <TD>1</TD>
    <TD>2</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
    <TD>3</TD>
    <TD>4</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
    <TD ALIGN=center ROWSPAN=2 COLSPAN=2>C</TD>
    <TD ALIGN=center ROWSPAN=2 COLSPAN=2>D</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</BODY>
</HTML>