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Submitted by Digitalalchemist

over 8 years

8/15

What am i doing wrong here, a little confused on how to make this work

Answer 55e4ce5293767612f100004d

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They ask -02. Make the column span 2 columns with the colspan attribute. Adding the attribute colspan=”2” to a tag should do the trick.

and you do…..

            <th colspan="3">2 columns across!</th>

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Submitted by Leon

over 8 years

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Digitalalchemist over 8 years

yea that was a last minute act of desperation..come on be merciful on the noob :)

stetim94 over 8 years

the colspan attribute should be on the first th tag (Famous Monsters by Birth Year), not on your extra create tags

Answer 55e4e59e51b887ae3b00056e

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@Digitalalchemist, google search == the Book == html table tags explained site:developer.mozilla.org https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/table

== discussions / opnions == html table tags explained site:stackoverflow.com

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Submitted by Leon

over 8 years

Answer 55ee5e8e9113cb9ac9000134

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could you help me out with my syntax, this section is really slowing down my progress to continue

<html>
<head>
    <title>Table Time</title>
</head>

<body>
    
    <table border="1px">
        <thead>
            <tr>
                <th>Famous Monsters by </th>
                <th colspan="2">Birth Year </th>
            </tr>
            <tr> 
                <th>Famous Monster</th>
                <th>Birth Year</th>
            </tr> 
        </thead>
        <tbody>
            <tr>
                <td>King Kong</td>
                <td>1933</td>     
            </tr>
            
            <tr>
                <td>Dracula</td>
                <td>1897</td>
            </tr>
            
            <tr>
                <td>Bride of Frankenstein</td>
                <td>1935</td>
            </tr>
        </tbody>
    </table>
    
</body>

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Submitted by Digitalalchemist

over 8 years

Answer 55ee808f51b887b5fa0005d8

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@Digitalalchemist, You will have to change

        <tr>
            <th>Famous Monsters by </th>
            <th colspan="2">Birth Year </th>
        </tr>

into

        <tr>
            <th colspan="2">Famous Monsters by Birth Year</th>
        </tr>

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16155396/multiple-thead-tbody-in-table-valid

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Submitted by Leon

over 8 years

1 comments

Digitalalchemist over 8 years

Thanks Leon, i do appreciate the tough love :) keep it coming

Answer 55ee80b495e37888540005ae

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++ general search Did you try… http://www.codecademy.com/guidance/choose

google search == the Book == jquery [your question] site:developer.mozilla.org CSS [your question] site:developer.mozilla.org javascript [your question] site:developer.mozilla.org [your question] site:jquery.com [your question] site:getbootstrap.com

== discussions / opinions == jquery [your question] site:stackoverflow.com CSS [your question] site:stackoverflow.com javascript [your question] site:stackoverflow.com

== guidance == www.crockford.com [your question] site:crockford.com

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1795438/load-and-execution-sequence-of-a-web-page https://learn.jquery.com/events/event-delegation/ event- bubbling or Capturing event bubble-up or trickle-down http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4616694/what-is-event-bubbling-and-capturing https://www.codecademy.com/articles/http-errors-404 https://www.codecademy.com/articles

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Learn/HTML/HTML_tags https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Specificity https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes http://www.w3schools.com/jquery/jquery_ref_selectors.asp

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Submitted by Leon

over 8 years