ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2015

9 Journal Publishing Tag Set, version 1.1 • 9.5 Attributes

9.5.23 @colspan Column Span (NISO JATS table model)

Table attribute used to request horizontal spanning of more than one column. (This attribute is based on and intended to be converted easily to the XHMTL colspan attribute.)

In elements <td> and <th>, this attribute will be assigned the value 1 by default.
Value Meaning
Counting number How many column widths this cell will span, for example, 3.