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HTML HTML Tables Structuring Tables The Table Foot Element

Posted by Jen McCaw
Jen McCaw
4,031 Points

Why not use colspan="0"?

In the documentation it looked like it said that this would automatically fit to the number of columns. Not an issue for this demo, but maybe a better choice for larger tables?

2 Answers

Santiago Posada
Santiago Posada
5,189 Points
Santiago Posada
Santiago Posada
5,189 Points

Hi Jen I got this from MDN th as search in Google:

"colspan : This attribute contains a non-negative integer value that indicates on how many columns does the cell extend. Its default value is 1; if its value is set to 0, it does extend until the end of the <colgroup>, eventually implicitly defined, the cell belongs to. Values higher than 1000 are clipped down to 1000."

So it will be set up by default to 1 column, Hope this helps

Cody Coats
Cody Coats
7,469 Points
Cody Coats
Cody Coats
7,469 Points

From W3C:

"Note: Only Firefox supports colspan="0", which has a special meaning... tells the browser to span the cell to the last column of the column group."