style.rowSpan (Property)

An indication of how many rows a table cell should span.

Availability:

CSS level - 2
Property/method value type:String primitive
JavaScript syntax:nonemyStyle.rowSpan
CSS syntax:row-span: aRowCount
Argument list:aRowCountA number of rows to span in a table

This is used when you want to create complex tables, and can be used as an alternative to nesting a table. Avoiding nested tables is good because they can be quite unwieldy.

This is related somewhat to the rowSpan property of the TD and TH objects and controls the same behavior.

See also:TABLE object, TD.rowSpan, TH.rowSpan