colspan

Column Span (XHTML table model)

Use W3C documentation for the XHTML1.1 table model. (http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/abstract_modules.html#s_tablemodule)

Remarks

Horizontal spanning. The attribute specifies the number of columns that a table cell will span. (The table cell will be tagged with a <td> or <th> element.)

Attribute Values

In Elements

<td>
<th>
Value Meaning
Counting number How many column widths this cell will span, for example, “ 3 ”.
Default value: 1 (Spans 1 column)