HTML colspan Attribute

Example

<table>
	<tr>
		<th colspan="2">Heading</th>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td>Table data</td>
		<td>Table data</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td>Foot data</td>
		<td>Foot data</td>
	</tr>
</table>

Meaning

The colspan attribute takes a numeric value that specifies how many columns wide a cell should be.

This is useful for creating tables with cells of different widths.

Standard Syntax

<element colspan="number">

Browser Support

Status

Applies to:

The colspan attribute can be used on the following element:

Element	Attribute
<td>	colspan
<th>	colspan

Attribute Values

Value	Description
number	Specifies the number of columns respectively that the cell is to span.

More Examples

Example

<table>
	<tr>
		<th>Heading</th>
		<th>Heading</th>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td colspan="2">Table data</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td>Table data</td>
		<td>Table data</td>
	</tr>
</table>

❮ HTML Attributes