[Plugin: Easy Table] Combining colspan and rowspan

I’m struggling to get the layout I want – it could be me misunderstanding the underlying html table capabilities, but hopefully it should be clear from this simple example:

[table]
Head 1 [attr rowspan=”2″], Head 2 [attr rowspan=”2″], Head 3 [attr colspan=”3″]
Sub 3a,Sub 3b,Sub 3c
Data 1,Data 2,Data 3a,Data 3b,Data 3c
[/table]

Basically, I want Head 1 and Head 2 to span 2 rows, with the final Head 3 spanning 3 columns and sub-heads a,b,c under Head 3. Sorry I can’t post an image, but here’s an ascii attempt:

-------------------------------------------------------------
|           |           | Head 3                            |
| Head 1    | Head 2    -------------------------------------
|           |           | Sub 3a    | Sub 3b    | Sub 3c    |
-------------------------------------------------------------
| Data 1    | Data 2    | Data 3a   | Data 3b   | Data 3c   |
-------------------------------------------------------------

But this only seems to work if I specify ‘th=”0″‘ in the intial table tag – and of course then I lose the table headers. Is there any way to achieve what I’m after? I don’t particularly want the ‘Sub 3a’, etc. formatted as a header row, but it seems rowspan doesn’t work across the header row.

Perhaps there’s a way of specifying th=”0″ and then setting an attribute on the ‘Head 1’ elements so that they are formatted as if they were actually a header row? I tried ‘class=”th”‘, but they end up with td.th, not plain th…

Thanks,

David.

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