Help:Wiki University Wikitext--Tables - Row Spans

Spanning rows in tables
Here is an example: This ability to span rows is not quite as useful as spanning columns but it does have its uses.
 * Just as we have told you who to span columns with individual cells, you can also span rows as well.
 * NOTICE the first cell of the second row takes up the first two cells of the second and third rows.

How to span rows

 * If a cell is to span two rows, as in the above example, we use a class called "rowspan" like so:
 * rowspan="2"


 * NOTICE the "2" represents the number of rows to span.
 * This coding is inserted right after the pipe or explanation marks like so:
 * | rowspan="2" style="width:50%; ......." | Foods that have a .......

Here is the coding for the first three rows of the above table:
 * However instead of erasing the cells in the row we want to merge, we erase the cell in the row below like so:
 * NOTICE again the location of the class "colspan."
 * NOTICE that the new row only has two cells, but each cell has a "colspan" in it. The two colspans cover the four cells in the next row.

Columns have to add up

 * Make sure that the columns you span add up to the total number of cells in the next row.
 * If you span a total of four columns or cells, you must have two colspan="2" in the preceding row otherwise you will get how knows what!

Restrictions

 * You cannot create sortable tables with colspans.

Let's see if you got it
 Exercises
 * Use this coding for a table

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 * Remove three items from the second row and make the remaining cell span the entire table.
 * Remove two items from the fourth row and make the first cell span 3 columns and the remaining cell for the last column.

 Quick Quiz
 * Colspans must equal the number of cells in the next row.
 * A. True
 * B. False


 * If you have a row with four cells you can have in the preceding row one cell with a colspan=3 plus the remaining cell.
 * A. True
 * B. False


 * If you have a row of seven cells you can have in the preceding row one cell with a colspan=2, the next cell with a colspan=3 and the remaining cell with a colspan=2.
 * A. True
 * B. False

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