Boxed Cells
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title></title> <style type="text/css" media="Screen"> table { border-collapse: separate; } * .boxed-table { border: 1px solid black; } * .boxed-cells td { border: 1px solid black; } </style> </head> <body> <table class="boxed-cells" cellspacing="5"> <tr><td rowspan="2">1</td><td colspan="2">2-3</td></tr> <tr><td>7</td><td>8</td><td> </td><td> </td><td class="x">11</td></tr> </table> </body> </html>