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CSS

Posted by Allison Walker
Allison Walker
17,137 Points

Column span

Just curious... I thought that column span had been in use for a long time. Maybe I'm thinking of tables?

1 Answer

Richard Ling
Richard Ling
8,522 Points

Hi Allison,

Column span has been around for a long time certainly in tables, such as colspan attribute on TD elements, as in the following example:

<table>
  <tr>
    <td>Row 1 Col 1</td>
    <td>Row 1 Col 2</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2">Row 2 spanning 2 columns</td>
  </tr>
</table>

Although the above is a slightly different use to the column-span property in CSS3. Is this what you meant? :)

Allison Walker
Allison Walker
17,137 Points

Yes, I was just sure I'd seen this before. I was a little confused as to why it was showing up in the flexbox tutorial.

I guess they have to give it a different name.