How To Merge Cells in a Row? - XHTML 1.0 Tutorials - Understanding Tables and Table Cells

If you want to merge multiple cells horizontally in a row, you need to use the "colspan" attribute of in a "td" element. "colspan" allows you to specify how many cells you want to merge into this cell horizontally.

Below is a tutorial example of merging cells horizontally:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
 <head>
  <title>Cell Merging in a Row</title>
 </head>
 <body>
  <table border="1" width="300" 
   style="background-color: #eeeeee">
   <caption>Online Order</caption>
   <tr>
    <th align="left">Description</th>
    <th align="right">Qty</th>
    <th align="right">Price</th>
   </tr>
   <tr>
    <td>Email Account</td>
    <td align="right">10</td>
    <td align="right">$9.90</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
    <td>FYIcenter.com Ad</td>
    <td align="right">1</td>
    <td align="right">$99.00</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
    <td>1-year Access</td>
    <td align="right">1</td>
    <td align="right">$199.00</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
    <td colspan="2" align="right">Shipping</td>
    <td align="right">$3.99</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
    <td colspan="2" align="right">Tax</td>
    <td align="right">$15.99</td>
   </tr>
  </table>
 </body>
</html>

If you save the above document as horizontal_merging.html, and view it with Internet Explorer, you will see that row 5 and 6 have two cells merged horizontally as shown below: