rowspan

Row Span (NISO JATS table model)

Table attribute used to request vertical spanning by naming the number of rows a cell spans in a vertical span. (This attribute is based on and intended to be converted easily to the XHTML rowspan attribute.)

Remarks

To specify vertical spanning, this attribute contains the number of rows that a table cell will span. (The table cell will be tagged with a <td> or <th> element.)

Used on Elements: <td>, <th>

ValueMeaning
A counting numberHow many rows this cell will span vertically, for example, “3”.
Default value1 (Span 1 row)

Example 

...
<tr>
<th/>
<th colspan="3" align="center" rowspan="1">Institutional care</th>
<th align="left"/>
<th colspan="2" align="center" rowspan="1">&#x2003;Bed use (days)</th>
</tr>
...

Journal Publishing Tag Library NISO JATS Version 1.3d1 (ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2019)

Version of October 2019

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