What Are Table Rowspan And Colspan In HTML? - Tutorialspoint

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The rowspan and colspan are the attributes of <td> tag. These are used to specify the number of rows or columns a cell should merge. The rowspan attribute is for merging rows and the colspan attribute is for merging columns of the table in HTML.

These attributes should be placed inside the <td> tag as shown in the image given below −

Syntax

Following is the syntax to merge table cells in HTML −

<td rowspan="2">cell data</td> <td colspan="2">cell data</td>

Example 1 − Setting the rowspan

Now let us look at an example where we set the rowspan of the one of the columns to 2.

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <style> table, tr, th, td { border: 1px solid black; padding: 20px; } </style> </head> <body> <h2>Tables in HTML</h2> <table style="width: 100%"> <tr> <th>First Name </th> <th>Job role</th> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td rowspan="2"></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>

Following is the output for the above example program

Example 2 − Setting the colspan

Given below is an example to merge column cells of the table in HTML.

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <style> table,tr,th,td { border:1px solid black; padding: 20px; } </style> <body> <h2>Tables in HTML</h2> <table style="width: 100%"> <tr> <th >First Name </th> <th>Job role</th> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" ></td> </tr> <tr> <td ></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"></td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>

Following is the output for the above example program.

Example 3

Following is another example where merge rows and columns by setting values of both rowspan and colspan attributes in a single program

<html> <head> <style> table, th, td { border: 1px solid black; width: 100px; height: 50px; } </style> </head> <body> <h1>Heading</h1> <table> <tr> <td colspan="2" ></td> </tr> <tr> <td ></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"></td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>

Following is the output for the above example program.

Lokesh Badavath Lokesh Badavath Updated on: 06-Sep-2023

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