Table Row Span

Sometimes you want table entries that stretch over several rows; that’s when you’ll use `rowspan` as an attribute in HTML. It can be used on table cells such as `<th>` or `<td>` so a cell may take space over several rows.

For example, take a television show. ABC is airing a film across two-time slots that fall between 6 to 8 PM. Meanwhile, BBC and CNN are airing two different programs simultaneously but for an hour each. If `rowspan` is used, the film would be ‘inscribed’ over both rows, while the other networks will have two separate cells each for the program.

Then you can see that one of the rows has fewer table cells than the total number of columns. This is because the rowspan attribute stretches the cell for the movie down so it occupies space in the row below it, so there’s no call for an extra cell in that spot either.