colspan

Column Span (XHTML table model)

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.)

See W3C documentation for the XHTML table model.

Attribute Values

In Elements

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