I'm not new to HTML but haven't touched it for some good time and I've encountered an annoying problem.
I have a table with two rows.
I want the first row to have one column - means that it will span the entire row, and I want the second row to have three columns, each one 33.3% of the row's width.
I have this code for the table :
<table width="900px" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td align="center">check</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center">check</td>
<td align="center">check</td>
<td align="center">check</td>
</tr>
</table>
But what happens is weird, the first row has one column with the same size as the second row's first column, and whenever I change one of them, it changes the other one too.
If I give the first row's <td> the width value of 500px lets say, it sets the second row's first <td> to the same size.
What am I doing wrong ?
You should use the colspan attribute on the first row's td.
Colspan="3" will set the cell to flow over 3 columns.
<table width="900px" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td align="center" colspan="3">check</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center">check</td>
<td align="center">check</td>
<td align="center">check</td>
</tr>
</table>
You want to use the colspan attribute like this:
<table width="900px" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td align="center" colspan="3">check</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" >check</td>
<td align="center">check</td>
<td align="center">check</td>
</tr>
</table>
If you're using JSX (React) it should be written like this. The s in colspan is capitalized and the value is a number instead of a string.
<td colSpan={3}>Text</td>
You can use colspan
<td align="center" colspan="3">check</td>
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_td_colspan.asp
Using colspan like this:
<tr>
<td align="center" colspan="3">check</td>
</tr>
By colspan you merge the following cells in a row to one. If you use 2 in your sample you get one cell with a width of the first two columns and the third is as the third in the rest of the table.
alter the first row with the below
<tr>
<td colspan="3" align="center">check</td>
</tr>
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I'm very new to HTML. I have an HTML document that is built using a 2 column table. I am now needing to set up a row with 3 columns. From the research that I've done, it seems that I can't just add a column to 1 row, rather I need to work with a 3 column table and use colspan in the other rows to make things work. Is that correct?
I've tried adjusting the existing colspans from =2 to =3 and adding a new column to the desired row but to no avail. Can you tell me what is wrong with my approach or how to properly convert the existing 2 column table to a 3 column structure?
<table width="768" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border:1px solid #000000" >
<tr>
<td colspan="2" width="768" height="160" border="0" style="display:inline" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="256"></td>
<td width="256"></td>
<td width="256"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"></td>
</tr>
</table>
<table border="1">
<tr> <!-- row with 3 columns -->
<td>1x1</td>
<td>1x2</td>
<td>1x3</td>
</tr>
<tr> <!-- row with only 2 columns, where the second column is as wide as the second and third column, above -->
<td>2x1</td>
<td colspan="2">2x2</td>
</tr>
</table>
This is how to get a table with N rows and 3 columns. Is it what you were asking for? It would be useful if you could paste some code!
See this page to learn more about colspan:
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_td_colspan.asp
EDIT:
In your code you have written the table to display only 2 columns for every row.
You have to add a <td> tag to display another column per row.
Is it possible to make a table with lets say 4 columns with of 1 row with 100px in width, and then have to cells below with a with of 200px without having to create a new table?
Because if i do this, then when i set the width of 200px in new cells, the other cell changes width too.. i want the to new cells to expand to fill up the rest of the width left.
Here an example..
<table border="1" width="100%">
<tr>
<td width="100px">1</td>
<td width="100px">2</td>
<td width="100px">3</td>
<td width="100px">4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="200px">5</td>
<td width="200px">6</td>
</tr>
</table>
JsFiddle demo
you actally need to use colspan, so you code will be as below this will do the work you want
<table border="1" width="100%">
<tr>
<td width="100px">1</td>
<td width="100px">2</td>
<td width="100px">3</td>
<td width="100px">4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">5</td>
<td colspan="2">6</td>
</tr>
</table>
<td colspan="number"> -number Specifies the number of columns a cell should span. Note: colspan="0" tells the browser to span the cell to the last column of the column group (colgroup)
Try removing the cell width from the second row, but add an additional attribute to each of them, so it reads like:
<td colspan="2"></td>
<td colspan="2"></td>
This should have both these cells account for 2 cells widths, without the need to redefine their widths.
MDN TD - Attribute Colspan
In my example jsfiddle I have two HTML tables. They are basically the same - same class, same content, everything. The only difference is the order of rows.
<style>
.tbl-lay-fixed {table-layout:fixed}
</style>
<table class="tbl-lay-fixed" border="1" width="100%">
<tr>
<td width="5%">xxxx</td>
<td width="95%">yyyyyyyyyy</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" width="100%">xxxx</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table class="tbl-lay-fixed" border="1" width="100%">
<tr>
<td colspan="2" width="100%">xxxx</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="5%">xxxx</td>
<td width="95%">yyyyyyyyyy</td>
</tr>
</table>
Table number 1 is displayed correctly - width of the cells is correct.
Table number 2 is displayed incorrectly - second row have two columns with witdh set as 5% and 95% accordingly, but instead it is displayed as 50% 50%.
Where is the problem? It is the same in all browsers.
This seems to work in Firefox at least
(changing bottom TD colspan to 20)
just remove "width="100%" <table class="tbl-lay-fixed" border="1" width="100%"> from the table class
I am new to HTML and CSS designs. I have the below code.
<html>
<body>
<table width="100%">
<tr>
<td width="25%"> </td>
<td width="25%"></td>
<td width="25%"></td>
<td width="25%"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td >wqewqehkjfoiw</td>
<td >abcdefdsfds</td>
<td >sdfdsfdsfdsf</td>
<td >dsfsdfdsfdsfsdweqw</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="34%">wqewqehkjfoiw</td>
<td width="33%">abcdefdsfds</td>
<td width="33%">sdfdsfdsfdsf</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
The first and second rows have 4 tds of equal width. Now on third row, i wanted to have 3tds with equal width. But it is not working with the above code. Pls help
You should consider using a grid system (like http://960.gs/) instead of tables.
If you still want to use tables, use the colspan attribute:
<html>
<body>
<table width="100%">
<tr>
<td colspan="3" width="25%"> </td>
<td colspan="3" width="25%"></td>
<td colspan="3" width="25%"></td>
<td colspan="3" width="25%"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" width="33%">wqewqehkjfoiw</td>
<td colspan="4" width="33%">>abcdefdsfds</td>
<td colspan="4" width="33%">>sdfdsfdsfdsf</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
The table above has 12 columns, so for N tds, use colspan="12/N".
<table width="100%" border="5">
<tr>
<td colspan="25%"> </td>
<td colspan="25%"></td>
<td colspan="25%"></td>
<td colspan="25%"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="25%">wqewqehkjfoiw</td>
<td colspan="25%">abcdefdsfds</td>
<td colspan="25%">sdfdsfdsfdsf</td>
<td colspan="25%">dsfsdfdsfdsfsdweqw</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="34%">wqewqehkjfoiw</td>
<td colspan="33%">abcdefdsfds</td>
<td colspan="33%">sdfdsfdsfdsf</td>
</tr>
</table>
The way you tried won’t work because it does not correspond to the HTML table model, or any logical table structure. What browsers do in practice is (as you probably noticed) that they treat the row with three cells as if it had a fourth, empty cell. And then they more or less ignore the conflicting width settings.
Among the possible workarounds, the cleanest (and most common) is probably the use of nested tables. You would replace the last row cells by a single cell that spans all the four columns and contains an inner one-row table. The last row could thus be:
<tr>
<td colspan=4>
<table width=100%>
<tr>
<td width="34%">wqewqehkjfoiw</td>
<td width="33%">abcdefdsfds</td>
<td width="33%">sdfdsfdsfdsf</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<table width="100%" border="0">
<table width="600" align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff">
<tr>
<td width="600" colspan="120">Banner Image</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="400" colspan="80"></td>
<td width="10" colspan="2" bgcolor="yellow"></td>
<td width="190" colspan="38"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</table>
The alignment is messed up for the 2nd row. How can it be resolved?
Looks like there are a lot of issues here.
First off, this isn't valid html. The second table tag can't go where you have it. You need to do something like:
<table width="100%" border="0">
<tr><td>
<table width="600" align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff">
<tr>
<td width="600" colspan="3">Banner Image</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="400"></td>
<td width="10" bgcolor="yellow"></td>
<td width="190"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td></tr>
</table>
Which will probably solve your immediate problem. However, why on earth do you have 120 columns? That seems wrong by any standard.
Note I removed the colspan because it's use here seemed very inappropriate.
Also, you might ask yourself why you have the outer table tag anyway. It's not exactly doing anything for you that can't be done in a better manner.
Colspan is used to indicate how many COLumns a single column SPANs, not to indicate a pixel width, as it would appear that you are trying to do here.
Instead, use colspan to indicate how many columns a single column should span, and indicate the width of columns either using css styles or the "width" atttribute.
See this example:
http://jsfiddle.net/xixionia/yt3gf/
The second table should be better if you placed it inside a td on the first table. Then on the second table there's a lot of colspan.
<div>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="600" colspan="3">Banner Image</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="400"></td>
<td width="10" bgcolor="yellow"></td>
<td width="190"></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
I do prefer to use div in place of table. But you still have a choice. As you can refer to the other post.
You would try:
<table width="100%" >
<table align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="1">
<tr>
<td colspan="120">Banner Image</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width:400px;" colspan="80">a</td>
<td style="width:10px;" colspan="2" bgcolor="yellow">b</td>
<td style="width:190px;" colspan="38">c</td> </tr>
</table>
</table>
I add "border=1" and text in the cells in order to see the changes.
You got a table inside a table directly and thats not "valid".
Considering:
I want the banner to stretch across the table. The second row should be in proportion of width 400, 10 for the separator and 190
You should have:
<table style="width:100%; background-color: #fff;">
<tr>
<td colspan="3">Banner Image</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 66.6%"></td>
<td style="width: 1.6%; background-color: yellow;"></td>
<td style="width: 31.6%"></td>
</tr>
</table>
You are clearly trying to use tables to make layout wireframes. You should research more about CSS and html5.
This answer will probably fix your code but not the logic you are trying to apply.