Another look at Tony’s table

Based on his return trip to New Mexico, Tony’s added a new entry for August 27th, just below the original Truth or Consequences entry. He’s also reused a couple of cells where the information didn’t change (a great technique for reducing the amount of information in a table). You can see that when he added the new row, all he needed to do was list the things that were different the second time around (the date, the temperature, and that he revisited the diner).

But where does this leave you with XHTML? It seems like you’d have to add a entirely new row and just duplicate the city, altitude and population, right? Well, not so fast. We have the technology... using XHTML tables, you can have cells span more than one row (or more than one column). Let’s see how this works...