Table rowspan issue

[AfroNinja]

Hi, I'm trying to make a table to display a set of 'comments left' by the users on my site. Since css has issues with setting heights/min heights between browsers I went with a table so the cells would fill out the way I want. It works fine, except that there is an extra couple px of padding on the top of the right column.

I isolated the issue and you can see what I mean here:
http://www.afro-ninja.com/tabletest.htm

also, here is the xhtml+css code

<table style="width: 500px; border: 1px solid black;">
<tr>
	<td style="width: 120px; border: 1px solid black;" rowspan="3">
		<a href="">Name</a>
		<br />
		<a href=""><img src="" height="80" width="80" style="margin-top: 5px; border: 1px solid black;" /></a>
		<br />
		<small>Member since 3/3/3</small>
		<br />
		<br />
	</td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td style="height: 25px; border: 1px solid black;">
	post date
	</td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td style="border: 1px solid black;">
	text goes here
	</td>
</tr>
</table>

can anyone help me get rid of that extra space?

[corbyboy]

You need to remove the first </tr><tr> bit.

Your html defines 3 rows, whereas all you actually want is 2.

So your html should look like this:

<table style="width: 500px; border: 1px solid black;">
<tr>
	<td style="width: 120px; border: 1px solid black;" rowspan="3">
		<a href="">Name</a>
		<br />
		<a href=""><img src="" height="80" width="80" style="margin-top: 5px; border: 1px solid black;" /></a>
		<br />
		<small>Member since 3/3/3</small>
		<br />
		<br />
	</td>
	<td style="height: 25px; border: 1px solid black;">
	post date
	</td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td style="border: 1px solid black;">
	text goes here
	</td>
</tr>
</table>

[AfroNinja]

thank you! that's exactly what I needed. The syntax is still a bit confusing for me but it makes sense enough.