How to make tables with cells that span more than one row with HTML/XHTML

The code below shows you how to make a table with data cells that span more than one row with HTML/XHTML.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
<title>Web Development Tutorials.com</title>
</head>
<body>

<table border="1">
<tr>
<td rowspan="2">This data cell spans more than one row>/td>
<td>number 1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>number 2>/td>
</tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>

The code above creates the table below.

Telephone: number 1
number 2

Use the text editor below to practice what you have learned.

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