What are table rowspan and colspan in HTML?

The rowspan and colspan are the attributes of <td> tag. These are used to specify the number of rows or columns a cell should merge. The rowspan attribute is for merging rows and the colspan attribute is for merging columns of the table in HTML.

These attributes should be placed inside the <td> tag as shown in the image given below −

Syntax

Following is the syntax to merge table cells in HTML −

<td rowspan="2">cell data</td>
<td colspan="2">cell data</td>

Example 1 − Setting the rowspan

Now let us look at an example where we set the rowspan of the one of the columns to 2.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
   <meta charset="UTF-8">
   <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
   <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
   <style>
      table,
      tr,
      th,
      td {
         border: 1px solid black;
         padding: 20px;
      }
   </style>
</head>
<body>
   <h2>Tables in HTML</h2>
   <table style="width: 100%">
      <tr>
         <th>First Name </th>
         <th>Job role</th>
      </tr>
      <tr>
         <td></td>
         <td rowspan="2"></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
         <td></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
         <td></td>
         <td></td>
      </tr>
   </table>
</body>
</html>

Following is the output for the above example program

Example 2 − Setting the colspan

Given below is an example to merge column cells of the table in HTML.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<style>
   table,tr,th,td {
      border:1px solid black;
      padding: 20px;
   }
</style>
<body>
   <h2>Tables in HTML</h2>
   <table style="width: 100%">
      <tr>
         <th >First Name </th>
         <th>Job role</th>
      </tr>
      <tr>
         <td colspan="2" ></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
         <td ></td>
         <td></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
         <td colspan="2"></td>
      </tr>
   </table>
</body>
</html>

Following is the output for the above example program.

Example 3

Following is another example where merge rows and columns by setting values of both rowspan and colspan attributes in a single program

<html>
<head>
   <style>
      table, th, td {
         border: 1px solid black;
         width: 100px;
         height: 50px;
      }
   </style>
</head>
<body>
   <h1>Heading</h1>
   <table>
      <tr>
         <td colspan="2" ></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
         <td ></td>
         <td></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
         <td colspan="2"></td>
      </tr>
   </table>
</body>
</html>

Following is the output for the above example program.

Updated on: 06-Sep-2023

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