Span cells and html

HTML Table Colspan & Rowspan

HTML tables can have cells that span over multiple rows and/or columns.

HTML Table — Colspan

To make a cell span over multiple columns, use the colspan attribute:

Example

Note: The value of the colspan attribute represents the number of columns to span.

HTML Table — Rowspan

To make a cell span over multiple rows, use the rowspan attribute:

Example

Note: The value of the rowspan attribute represents the number of rows to span.

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HTML Table Cell – Padding, Border, Spacing, Width, Height

HTML table consists of rows and columns and each intersection of row and column is called a table cell. Table cells can contain text, images, links, buttons, and more. In this tutorial, we’ll explore different aspects of HTML table cells and talk about their formatting.

How to Add a Cell in HTML Table

Syntax to create a cell in the HTML table:

td> This is a Table Cell /td>

tr> td> Cell 1 /td> td> Cell 2 /td> td> Cell 3 /td> /tr>

You can add any number of cells in a table row. In the above code, I added three cells in a row.

Here below is the basic structure of the HTML table. This HTML code will create a table with 3 rows, 3 columns, and 9 table cells.

table> tr> td>Cell 1/td> td>Cell 2/td> td>Cell 3/td> /tr> tr> td>Cell 4/td> td>Cell 5/td> td>Cell 6/td> /tr> tr> td>Cell 7/td> td>Cell 8/td> td>Cell 9/td> /tr> /table>

Code Explanation:

Code Output:

The above code output shows table cells that are very simple with no formatting like borders, or padding. Even it doesn’t have the look of a table because we just use HTML code. We have to use CSS styles to make it look better. But don’t worry, we’re also going to see that in this tutorial.

We have different ways to format an HTML table cell like changing cell spacing, padding, border, background color, width, height, merging cells, and more. Let’s explore them one by one with code examples.

Note: We’ll make changes to the same HTML table code given above.

HTML Table Cell Border

We can use CSS shorthand border property to add borders around each cell of a table. The below CSS will add 2 pixels of the border with solid weight and black color to the table cells.

> table, tr, td border: 2px solid black; > >

Code Output:

> table, tr, td border: 2px solid black; border-collapse: collapse; > >

Code Output in Browser:

Another noticeable thing is cell spacing. The cells are too closed like the content of the cells is stuck. Let’s solve this problem by adding some space around the cell text.

HTML Table Cell Spacing

For this, we have CSS padding property. You can use padding and give it any value in numbers. Let’s see how.

> table, tr, td border: 2px solid black; border-collapse: collapse; padding: 16px; > >

Now, each HTML table cell is looking much better than before as shown below.

HTML Table Header Cell

We use a pair of tags to define header cells in a table. Everything that goes in between tags will look bolder than the text of normal cells.

> > >Heading 1> >Heading 2> >Heading 3> > > >Cell 1> >Cell 2> >Cell 3> > > >Cell 4> >Cell 5> >Cell 6> > > >Cell 7> >Cell 8> >Cell 9> > >

Also, I also added th an element selector to my CSS code as shown below in the image. This will implement the same styles in the header of our table.

Now, you can see the difference in the below output, the header text is bolder than normal HTML table cells.

Now, what if we give our table cells a background color?

HTML Table Cell Background and Text Color

Now, what I’m going to do is, I will change the background color of just the header cells to black and its text would be white to look clear. So, let’s add some CSS.

I use the element selector that th to change the background of each table header cell.

th background-color: #333333; color: #ffffff; >

Now, see the output in the browser.

You can use the background-color property to apply different backgrounds to each cell of the HTML table.

Tip: One thing that might come to your mind is that the table is aligned to the left side of your browser. What if we want to align the table in the center? For this, you can check out this tutorial about how to center an HTML table.

Width and Height of Table Cell

To set the width or height of an HTML table cell, we can use HTML width or height attributes. However, changing the width of a cell will also change the width of other cells in a column or row.

Let’s just say we want to change the width of the second cell of the table that exists in the second row. Then, you have to use inline CSS code to set the width property for the specific cell.

table> tr> th>Heading 1/th> th>Heading 2/th> th>Heading 3/th> /tr> tr> td>Cell 1/td> td style="width: 60%;">Cell 2/td> td>Cell 3/td> /tr> tr> td>Cell 4/td> td>Cell 5/td> td>Cell 6/td> /tr> tr> td>Cell 7/td> td>Cell 8/td> td>Cell 9/td> /tr> /table>

Now, the output is shown below in the image.

The other cells in the second column also have the same width.

Now, the height. The height also works in the same way, the whole row’s height will change. But this is extremely helpful in some cases like you want to show a paragraph in your table and you want to set the specific width or height for that row or column.

Merge or Span Table Cells over Multiple Rows or Columns

Like Excel or Google Sheets, sometimes we want to merge or span an HTML table cell over rows or columns. In HTML, we have colspan and rowspan attributes to do this job. To understand it better, I used another HTML table example that will look like this after making changes.

The above table shows students and their favorite subjects. Each student has 3 favorite subjects and every table cell that contains student’s name is span over three rows. How I did that, let’s see the code first and then understand.

table> tr> th>Name/th> th>Favourite Subjects/th> /tr> tr> td rowspan="3">Sara/td> td>History/td> /tr> tr> td>Zoology/td> /tr> tr> td>Math/td> /tr> tr> td rowspan="3">Zeeshan/td> td>Psychology/td> /tr> tr> td>Science/td> /tr> tr> td>Programming/td> /tr> /table>

In the above HTML table code, the table structure is the same, just I used rowspan attribute for that cell which I want to span and give the number of rows.

If you want to span a cell over multiple columns then the process is the same. Just use the colspan attribute for the cell that you want to span as in the code below.

table width="50%"> tr> th>Name/th> th colspan="3">Favourite Subjects/th> /tr> tr> td>Sara/td> td>History/td> td>Zoology/td> td>Math/td> /tr> tr> td>Zeeshan/td> td>Psychology/td> td>Science/td> td>Programming/td> /tr> /table>

The output is shown below that shows changes to the same table in which you can see a table cell span over multiple columns.

That’s it. This is all about HTML table cells and their formatting.

As this tutorial was focused on the cells of HTML tables. If you want to learn more, then see this tutorial about HTML Tables with Code Examples.

If you have questions regarding this tutorial then feel free to ask in the comment section below.

And don’t forget to help others by sharing this tutorial!

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Html cell span two columns html

Solution: You can’t define width:100% of an cell of a table with multiple column. Jsfiddle Question: I have a table with lots of rows and columns.

HTML Table Formatting: 2 colspan cell messes up column width

So say I have the following HTML:

 
 
Heading:
text
 
 
Heading 2:
text
 
 
Really long heading:
 
 
text
 
 
 

This creates a table with two columns, one for headers (left) and one for values (right) — except for one row, where a long header is taking up both columns, and the value is showed in the right most column on the next row. Along with this, I have some styling; most importantly:

This makes it so the right most column takes any extra space. And what I have is working, even though the «really long» header is longer/wider than the header column. However, when I add a few more words to the really long header (but not making it long enough to increase the width of the whole table), after a certain point the width of the left column starts to increase with the length of the long header, decreasing the width of the right column. What’s going on?

You can’t define width:100% of an cell of a table with multiple column. You should use colgroup tag to define width of cell:

  
   
Heading:
text
 
 
Really long heading:
 
 
lorem ispum dolores hello
text
 
 

Another tricks to set a cell at the minimum and obviously the another cell take the rest of the width, are to set the first one at 1px:

Html — Table colspan span all columns regardless of # of, See Tables in the HTML spec: colspan = number [CN] This attribute specifies the number of columns spanned by the current cell. The default value of this attribute is one («1»). The value zero («0») means that the cell spans all columns from the current column to the last column of the column group ( COLGROUP ) in …

Using cell width and colspan

Trying to understand why the third row is not adjusting correctly. It does adjust correctly when the colspan is set to 1 (instead of 2).

It seems that despite the simplicity of the case, it exceeds browsers’ capabilities in implementing the width settings. As a workaround, instead of setting width on a cell that occupies two columns, set the widths on those columns directly. Unfortunately this means that you need to make the division of the 0.5in width into parts fixed. To divide it evenly, add the following tags after the tag:

HTML th colspan Attribute, The colspan attribute defines the number of columns a header cell should span. Browser Support Note: Only Firefox supports colspan=»0″, which has a special meaning (look below in the «Attribute Values» table). Syntax

Attribute Values HTML tag

Colspan + Equal cell width after multiple columns are removed

PS. I prefer to solve this problem with CSS if possible but if there is no way, I also have access to JQuery (but no other library).

OK, this is an extension of my previous question. When I was asking that question, I tried to make the scenario as simple as possible. But it seems the colspans in my table are creating a problem. I have a table with 8 columns. At runtime, any number of these elements are removed. There are a few rows with colspan=»8″ in my table. Using table-layout:fixed; I make the cells have equal width. The problem is the cell with colspan=»8″ doesn’t resize. This picture shows what I have and what I want:

     table < width:600px; table-layout:fixed; >table td < border:1px solid red; text-align:center; background-color:#9CF; >table td:only-child < background-color:#CCFFFF; >caption  Original table Cell with colspan=8  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 After some columns are removed Cell with colspan=8  1 2 4 5 7 8 I want these to have the same width Cell with colspan=8  1 Two Three Column number four 5 I want these to have the same width, too Cell with colspan=8  1 Column number four 5   

EDIT 1: Didn’t read the previous linked question.
EDIT 2: I fixed it, it should be working okay now.

I tried to tweak it a bit and I think I got the desired outcome. Now you need to customize the td size.

HTML | colspan Attribute, The colspan attribute in HTML specifies the number of columns a cell should span. It allows the single table cell to span the width of more than one cell or column. It provides the same functionality as “merge cell” in a spreadsheet program like Excel. Usage: It can be used with

and element while …

HTML split table cell instead of using colspan

I have a table with lots of rows and columns.

Now I want split td «E8» in 2 columns like this:

What is the best solution?

You can user rowspan=»2″ on all other cells in the same row

Another Way

inside the cell you put two divs and use css to style it

and you can see an EXAMPLE HERE

Put two rows within that cell

Make an HTML table’s column span all the columns, You need to set the colspan equal to the maximum number of columns that you have in any row of your table. So, if your table has 6 columns in row 5 and that is the most, then you would set colspan=»6″. If the number of columns is dynamic, then you need to set the colspan dynamically. Share …

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