table: setting rowspan & colspan

[qwert]

Hello;
why i use the "<TD colspan=4 rowspan=4>", it does not work? thanks

<TABLE BORDER width=100%>
<TR>
<TH COLSPAN=2>Head1</TH>
<TH COLSPAN=2>Head2</TH>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD colspan=4 rowspan=4>A</TD> 
</TR>
  </TABLE>

[Robert2]

I'm not exactly sure what you would like to achieve and what you feel does not work.
Perhaps that you expected the second row to be bigger, because you specified rowspan=4.
However there are no 4 rows available to span too.
Maybe you'll understand it better when you see this example:

<TABLE BORDER width=100%>
<TR>
<TH COLSPAN=2>Head1</TH>
<TH COLSPAN=2>Head2</TH>
<TH COLSPAN=2>Head3</TH>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD colspan=4 rowspan=4>A</TD>
<TD colspan=2>B</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD colspan=2>B</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD colspan=2>B</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD colspan=2>B</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>   

[qwert]

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, I'd like to make the second row to be bigger, and the second row span to right and bottom, but i could not span the rows.

but now i can span the rows now with the following
"<TD colspan=4 rowspan=4 height=100>A</TD> "

[Robert2]

but now i can span the rows now with the following
"<TD colspan=4 rowspan=4 height=100>A</TD> "

Uhmm no you can't. Yes the height made your cell bigger, but that has nothing to do with spanning. Just remove the rowspan=4 and you will get the same result.

Also in your case you can remove the colspan=2 on the TH elements, and replace the colspan="4" with colspan="2".

[qwert]

yes, that'true, it has nothing to do with spanning. Thanks anyway

[rocknbil]

He's telling you things go wonky when you try to span columns that don't exist. Although colspan=2 + colspan=2 = colspan=4, there aren't 4 columns. Same is true of rowspan.