CSS rowspan test
<!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" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <head> <title>CSS rowspan test</title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <style type="text/css"> .tablewrapper { position: relative; } .table { display: table; } .row { display: table-row; } .cell { border: 1px solid red; display: table-cell; } .cell.empty { border: none; width: 100px; } .cell.rowspanned { position: absolute; top: 0; bottom: 0; width: 100px; } </style> </head> <body> <div class="tablewrapper"> <div class="table"> <div class="row"> <div class="cell"> Top left </div> <div class="rowspanned cell"> Center </div> <div class="cell"> Top right </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="cell"> Bottom left </div> <div class="empty cell"></div> <div class="cell"> Bottom right </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>