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Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 01/27/07 13:38
Scripsit TheBagbournes:
> I figured it out :
I don't think so. You didn't react the question whether you should really
use a table, and this normally means you shouldn't.
Moreover, you seem to have rejected my simple and correct markup in favor of
more complex and less correct.
> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
> <tr>
> <td rowspan="2">
> Single Row
> </td>
> <td>
> Top half
> <td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td colspan="2">
> Bottom half
> </td>
> <tr>
> </table>
>
> You have to give the td on the second row colspan="2",
Wrong.
> otherwise the
> table is not balanced (every row has to have the same number of
> columns spanned).
Wrong. _Your_ table is not balanced, since the first row has two columns and
the second row has three columns: one cell shared with the upper row and two
columns spanned by the second cell.
Did you look at the effect? Add border="1" to the <table> tag and you'll see
that your table is not balanced: "Top half" is a bit narrower than the
"Bottom half", because there is ghost column, so to say.
An unbalanced table is not explicitly forbidden in HTML specifications, but
the effects are unpredictable.
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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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