Thanks

NewTechGuy — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 01:53:24 +0000

Thanks very much for both your responses. I have never looked at tables that way... and now I have a new way to consider.

Thanks again...

Newtechguy

Busy — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:54:29 +0000

You can only use colspan as Tim mentioned. The golden rule is a table is a box, you can not have a td cell finish within one above or below it, it can span several td's but will always end at the begining or end or the previous td border.

I know what you want, I rememer trying to get it to work for ages when I was learning tables. From your code above, if the top 3 are 100, the bottom ones can only be 100,200 or 200,100

timjpriebe — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 18:49:03 +0000

You can have cells span multiple columns. But it looks like to accomodate your example, you would need the following widths: 100px, 50px, 50px, 100px. Then the HTML would look like this.

<table>

<tr>
<td colspan="1" width="100px"></td>
<td colspan="1" width="50px"></td>
<td colspan="1" width="50px"></td>
<td colspan="1" width="100px"></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td colspan="1" width="100">1</td>
<td colspan="2" width="100">2</td>
<td colspan="1" width="100">3</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td colspan="2" width="150">1</td>
<td colspan="2" width="150">2</td>
</tr>
</table>

Technically, you can leave the colspan="1" out, but it may make it easier to read.