Saturday 21 September 2013

The Rowspan and Colspan Attributes, Web Design is Easy


The ROWSPAN and COLSPAN Attributes 

For example, you want a complex table of different cell sizes, you can use ROWSPAN and COLSPAN in html4. This can get quite complex. But remember that Columns go down, and Rows go across. To have one big cell stretch horizontally across two smaller cells, the code would be this:

<TR>
<TD COLSPAN = 2>Home Team</TD>
<TD COLSPAN = 2>Away Team<BR></TD>
</TR>

The attribute COLSPAN has the value of two because one TD cell is going to stretch across two columns. We have 4 columns in our table above, so the first TD tag will span two columns, and so will the second one.
If we add some other table tags, you might get a better idea of what's going on.

<CAPTION><B>Football Scores</B></CAPTION>

<TR>
<TD COLSPAN = 2>Home Team</TD>
<TD COLSPAN = 2>Away Team<BR></TD>
</TR>

<TR >
<TD>Arsenal</TD>
<TD>2</TD>
<TD>Leeds</TD>
<TD>1</TD>
</TR>

If we wanted one big cell to stretch over all our rows, running down the left side, we would use ROWSPAN. The code would be this (the <BR> tag gets you a blank cell):

<TR>
<TD ROWSPAN = 6><BR></TD>
</TR>

save to your templates and preview.

You might have noticed that although the code was this:

<TR>
<TD ROWSPAN = 6><BR></TD>
</TR>

The number of rows in the table was actually only five. So why set the ROWSPAN to 6? Well, it's because we had 5 sets of TR tags in our table, plus the one TR tag we added for the ROWSPAN making 6 in total.
There's no doubt about it, though - setting up a complex table with cells spanning across other cells can be a tricky business when you're coding by hand!

In the next lesson, you'll learn about table attributes.

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