I’m just hoping I don’t have to paste the data in for every single <th>, <td> etc.
No. colspan is an HTML td attribute. There is no CSS equivalent.
hell, i just can’t get used to this format. Thanks rp, my reply now showing on my first post phhhlltttttt!. I feel like I’m in a zero gravity pod whenever I post here, where nothing is strapped down and things keep poping up, rolling back, collapsing.
While I’m here, could you take a quick look at this little table and tell me if it looks “correct”? I don’t understand colspan and I’m not certain I’ve coded this little guy correctly:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="charset=UTF-8; text/html" http-equiv="Content-Type">
<title>COLSPANS</title>
<style type="TEXT/CSS">
P {height: 100%;}
body {
margin-left: 30px;
margin-right: 30px; /* TOP RIGHT BOTTOM LEFT */
margin-top: 100px;
margin-bottom: 100px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table border="5"
cellpadding="15"
cellspacing="10"
style=
"font-family: Lucida Console Bold, MONOSPACE; font-size: 20px; line-height: 22px; width: 100%; height: AUTO; text-align: left;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th style="width: 30%;">COLUMN ONE</th>
<th style="width: 30%;">COLUMN TWO</th>
<th style="width: 30%;">COLUMN THREE</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>STUFF</td>
<td>STUFF</td>
<td>STUFF</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>STUFF</td>
<td>STUFF</td>
<td>STUFF</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>STUFF</td>
<td>STUFF</td>
<td>STUFF</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>STUFF</td>
<td>STUFF</td>
<td>STUFF</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>
I do not see a colspan in the HTML. Did you want me to look at something else?
You are correct! lol No it’s just one of my little book/movie projects and for some reason there are certain tables that no matter what I do to discipline the columns they just will not get in line. I stumbled on the old COLSPAN and wondered if I should rewrite the whole thing using its code. I managed to get a couple seasons of the Fox sketch comedy show of the 1990s In Living Color cheap and am building the Mother of All Tables which I’ll carve up and print out eventually (it’s HUGE). But this bizarre column shifting is driving me nuts. I swear, I can literally duplicate the code on some of these tables and paste it in verbatim to the problem row/column. It takes; I save the page; and the minute I reopen it again it’s right back, 3 columns dangling off the edge. It’s just driving me nuts.
So yes, the colspan is what I’m going to try, but I don’t exactly know where to put it. In the TH column headers? in every column? in every row? Looking at my little file above how would you advise I proceed? Thanks rp, always a pleasure. I’ll check back tomorrow.
Unless I am misunderstanding you, the “real” problem doesn’t sound like a colspan issue but instead about fixing the width of table columns consistently.
I’ll open with the usual advisory message that using tables for page layout is a very bad approach nowadays. It is a relic from the earliest days of HTML before CSS “civilized” web page design. That’s old. Most layouts can be done with more semantically appropriate tags, elements that mean something to screen readers, etc, and are much, much easier to maintain and control. Tables should be reserved for spreadsheet-style data, aka. “tabular” data. I’m sure you’ve heard all of this before, so I’ll stop flogging the dead horse.
It would be very helpful if you could post an example of the problem that you are facing… tables whose columns do not align. You might prefer to create an example and publish it on your site while we talk about it rather than post code here. I envision quite a bit of code, but if you can simplify it so it still demonstrates the problem, that would be a bonus.
In general, tables/table cells adapt to the width and quantity of their contents. You can change that behavior by assigning {table-layout:fixed} to the table. The best way to do this is to put the table inside an outer div container and assign a width of 100% to the table. The common outer framing container will allow the table and cells to be consistently wide and fluid. Then assign percent widths to the columns that add up to exactly 100%. The table columns will maintain those relative widths regardless of their contents.
colspans are for spanning multiple columns within an HTML table. They work fine, if all of the columns are defined in the first row.
This conversation drifted into colspans in the latter half of the thread. I posted a couple of examples near/at the end that may or may not be meaningful to you. No harm in giving them a glance if you are still interested in colspan.
Tables and HTML newsletters are baking my noodle - #2 by ronpat
Hope this helps.
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As Ron said colspan is used to span a number of cells in a table-row. You can span 2 or more cells as required and even have the whole row as one cell that spans all the cells above.
However you can’t span half a cell and if you needed that effect then you would need to start off with twice the number of cells in the row above and then colspan pairs of cells in that row and that would allow you to effectively span 1 and half cells in the following row.
Remember that the number of cells in each row must always add up correctly (including the colspan) otherwise the table structure may be compromised.
This old example shows how colspan can be used to merge cells but still to keep data organised.
Paul, RP howdy. Okay I’m going to Tidy up my code so it’s presentable to you all, but meantime . . . I’ve got a huge portion of this to work, but the latest issue is that I can see the bounding cells’ borders in Dreamweaver but not in either Firefox or Chrome. I’m attaching (a slice of) my little In Living Color project from within Dreamweaver 8. Let me grab my broom and I’ll be back in a sec. 
Are you wanting to see the borders or not?
If not, don’t worry about it. No one is going to be viewing the site in Dreamwaever.
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Is it a problem that you can see bounding borders in Dreamweaver 8 but not in FF or Chrome?
You do realize that Dreamweaver is not a browser, don’t you?
And that it was released in 2005, so it’s not even “modern”?
???
Okay gentlemen, here is my code. Please note that I’m reserving a style position for hiheaux to (attempt to) implement RonPat’s alternating-row jquery color scheme, and then when I get it working I want to take it a step further and adjust the luminosity of each DISC in that Season’s HUE by a factor of 4.
So for example, if you look at SEASON 2 there are FOUR DISCS. If my HUE is PURPLE for Season 2, their darkest-to-lightest I row colors would look like this and always begin with the luminosity of 238:
DISC 1 PURPLE at a luminosity of 238
DISC 2 PURPLE at a luminosity of 242
DISC 3 PURPLE at a luminosity of 246
DISC 4 PURPLE at a luminosity of 250 >because anythihng higher and it’s WHITE! lol 
Let me say that I do not want a script to do this. I’ll select the HUE and code in the associated hex color per disc manually (this is after all just a little project for my own private use!). I just want to see if I can get the jquery to work anywhere on this file.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<HEAD>
<META content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
<title>IN LIVING COLOR ► 5 Seasons ●1990 - 1994</title>
<style type="text/css">
.hiheux_oddChild {
background-color: #FFFFDB;}
p {height: 100%;}
H1 {
COLOR: CRIMSON;
font-family: PRESTIGE12 BT, MONOSPACE; font-weight: bold;
text-align: LEFT; font-size: 30px; line-height: 30px;}
H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 {
COLOR: #006666;
/* COLOR: CYAN; */
font-family: PRESTIGE12 BT, MONOSPACE; font-weight: bold;
text-align: CENTER; font-size: 30px; line-height: 30px;}
body {
font-size: 16px;
line-height: 16px;
font-family: PRESTIGE12 BT, MONOSPACE; font-weight: bold;
/* font-family: LettrGoth12 BT, Bold, MONOSPACE; */
margin-left: 30px;
margin-right: 30px;
margin-top: 30px;
margin-bottom: 100px;}
th, td {
border: 2px;
padding: 10px;
}
table {
border: 10px INSET CYAN;
border-collapse: collapse;
column-span: 5; /* See Addt’l Browser Compatibility below */
width: 100%;
margin-top: 50px;
border-collapse: collapse;
padding: 8px; /* INSIDE the border of an element */
cellspacing: 4px; /* OUTSIDE the border of an element */
font-family: PRESTIGE12 BT, BOLD, MONOSPACE;
/* font-family: LettrGoth12 BT, Bold, MONOSPACE; */
margin-top: 30px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
-webkit-column-span: 5; /* Safari & Chrome */
-moz-column-span: 5; /* Firefox */
-ms-column-span: 5; /* Internet Explorer */
-o-column-span: 5; /* Opera */
}
sup {
color: CRIMSON;
font-size: 20px;
font-weight: BOLD;
vertical-align: SUPER;}
a:link {color: BLUE;}
a:visited {color: DODGERBLUE;}
a:hover {color: RED;}
a:active {color: INDIGO;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h3>Season 2</h3>
<h1>DISC 1</h1>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>SEQ</th>
<th>EPISODE</th>
<th>AIR DATE</th>
<th>DISC</th>
<th>SKETCHES</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>014</td>
<td>1</td>
<td>1990-09-23</td>
<td>ONE</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Hey Mon/Hedley
Hospital”</li>
<li>“Sidekick”</li>
<li>“Bigger Brothers”</li>
<li>“Mudhead’s
Funeral”</li>
<li>“Men on Films II”</li>
<li>Queen Latifah and Flavor Flav close the
show</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>015</td>
<td>2</td>
<td>1990-09-30</td>
<td>ONE</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Anton: Army Recruitment
Office”</li>
<li>“The Man Trainer”</li>
<li>“Roseanne Sings
America”</li>
<li>“Luther Campbell Writes a Clean
Song”</li>
<li>“Homey D. Clown: When Homey Met
Sally”</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>016</td>
<td>3</td>
<td>1990-10-07</td>
<td>ONE</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Untouchables” baseball bat
dinner intro</li>
<li>“Flatuscents”</li>
<li>“Good Morning/Good
Night”</li>
<li>“Cephus & Reesie’s
Broadway Tour”</li>
<li>“The Buttmans: Guess Who’s
Coming to Dinner?”</li>
<li>“Spike’s Joint”</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>017</td>
<td>4</td>
<td>1990-10-14</td>
<td>ONE</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Fly Girl Brain
Surgeons”</li>
<li>“Tag Team Evangelists”</li>
<li>“Benita Butrell: Uninvited
Guest”</li>
<li>“1-900-YT-GUILT”</li>
<li>“Al MacAfee: Hall
Monitor”</li>
<li>Monie Love closes the show</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>018</td>
<td>5</td>
<td>1990-10-21</td>
<td>ONE</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Black Like You”</li>
<li>“Go On Girl: Sensitive
Men”</li>
<li>“I Won’t Drift
Away”</li>
<li>“Miss Black Person
U.S.A.”</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>019</td>
<td>6</td>
<td>1990-10-28</td>
<td>ONE</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Hey Mon/Hedley Court”</li>
<li>“Shahrazad Ali’s
Video”</li>
<li>“Snackin’ Shack”</li>
<li>“Frenchie”</li>
<li>Heavy D & the Boyz open the
show</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>020</td>
<td>7</td>
<td>1990-11-04</td>
<td>ONE</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Shawn Wayans, Rap
Star”</li>
<li>“B.S. Brothers: Penitentiary
IV”</li>
<li>“Iraqi Fashion Show”</li>
<li>“Lil’ Miss Trouble: The
School Play”</li>
<li>“Vera De Milo: Buffed, Beautiful,
and Bitchen”</li>
<li>“Homeboy Shopping Network:
Hollywood Homeboys”</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h3>Season 2</h3>
<h1>DISC 2</h1>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>SEQ</th>
<th>EPISODE</th>
<th>AIR DATE</th>
<th>DISC</th>
<th>SKETCHES</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>21</td>
<td>8</td>
<td>1990-11-11</td>
<td>TWO</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Magenta Thompson’s Acting
School”</li>
<li>“Foundation for Golf
Heritage”</li>
<li>“Evelyn Smith”</li>
<li>“Laquita Sings the Blues”
featuring Billy Dee Williams</li>
<li>Billy Dee Williams closes the show</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>22</td>
<td>9</td>
<td>1990-11-18</td>
<td>TWO</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Lassie ’90”</li>
<li>“Amazing Grace—Rocky
VI”</li>
<li>“Dinner with Millie” (cut
from DVD)</li>
<li>“PMS Defense System”</li>
<li>“Men on Vacation”</li>
<li>Carl Jamal Taylor guest stars as first
”Fly Guy”</li>
<li>3rd Bass closes the show</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>23</td>
<td>10</td>
<td>1990-11-25</td>
<td>TWO</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“The Brothers Brothers: Two
Sistas for Two Brothers”</li>
<li>“Barbara Bush Visits the
Illiterates”</li>
<li>“Dickie Peterson: Cherub of
Justice”</li>
<li>“Anton’s
Thanksgiving”</li>
<li>D-Nice closes the show</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>24</td>
<td>11</td>
<td>1990-12-16</td>
<td>TWO</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Three Champs and a Little
Lady”</li>
<li>“The Newlywed Game”</li>
<li>“The Good Behavior Variety
Hour”</li>
<li>“Handi Man: The Justice Legion of
America”</li>
<li>Nikki D closes the show</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>25</td>
<td>12<sup>2</sup></td>
<td>1990-12-23</td>
<td>TWO</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Afro-phone”</li>
<li>“Vera De Milo: Veracosa, Mistress
of Destruction”</li>
<li>“Cephus & Reesie: The
Christmas Album”</li>
<li>“Lil’ Miss Trouble at the
Museum”</li>
<li>“Homey D. Clown: Homey
Claus”</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>26</td>
<td>13</td>
<td>1991-01-13</td>
<td>TWO</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“The Brothers Brothers: Tom and
Tom for the Arizona Tourism
Commission”</li>
<li>“Johnny Abdul—Saudi-Rock
Star”</li>
<li>“The Last Orphan”</li>
<li>“Velma Mullholland”</li>
<li>“B.S. Brothers: Funky Finger
Productions”</li>
<li>“The Head Detective”</li>
<li>Rich Nice closes the show</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>27</td>
<td>14</td>
<td>1991-02-03</td>
<td>TWO</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Mr. Squeegee”</li>
<li>“B.S. Brothers: Big
Break”</li>
<li>“Fashion Tampons”</li>
<li>“Fire Marshall Bill: Home
Safety”</li>
<li>“Homey D. Clown: Home E.
Cheese”</li>
<li>Carla Garrido joins the Fly Girls</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h3>Season 2</h3>
<h1>DISC 3</h1>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>SEQ</th>
<th>EPISODE</th>
<th>AIR DATE</th>
<th>DISC</th>
<th>SKETCHES</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>28</td>
<td>15</td>
<td>1991-02-10</td>
<td>THREE</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Benita Butrell: Block
Captain”</li>
<li>“Vanilla Ice - White White
Baby” (cut from DVD)</li>
<li>“Al Macafee, Prom
Chaperone”</li>
<li>“Oswald Meets the Parole
Board”</li>
<li>“My Dark Conscience”</li>
<li>“Fruit of the Loom
Boxers”</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>29</td>
<td>16</td>
<td>1991-02-17</td>
<td>THREE</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Ejector Bed”</li>
<li>“Frenchie at a Bachelor
Party”</li>
<li>“Lonny Parker, Attorney at
Law”</li>
<li>“Les and Wes: Twin
Stars”</li>
<li>“Anton in the Burbs”</li>
<li>Leaders of the New School close the
show</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>30</td>
<td>17</td>
<td>1991-02-24</td>
<td>THREE</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Prison Cable Network’s
Win, Lose, or Draw”</li>
<li>“Milk Commercial with Vera De
Milo”</li>
<li>“Pentagon Briefing”</li>
<li>“Calhoun Tubbs on the Campaign
Trail”</li>
<li>“The Great Sperm Bank
Robbery”</li>
<li>“Andrea Dice Clay on Love
Connection”</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>31</td>
<td>18</td>
<td>1991-03-03</td>
<td>THREE</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“The Brothers Brothers: Tom and
Tom at the Country Club”</li>
<li>“Oprah PSA”</li>
<li>“End Zone
Choreographer”</li>
<li>“Lil’ Magic: The Government
Cheese”</li>
<li>“Fire Marshall Bill: Classroom
Safety”</li>
<li>Another Bad Creation closes the
show</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>32</td>
<td>19</td>
<td>1991-03-17</td>
<td>THREE</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“David Alan Grier’s Tribute
to Broadway”</li>
<li>“Velma II”</li>
<li>“Cephus & Reesie: Last
Request”</li>
<li>“Do You Feel Lucky
Promo”</li>
<li>“The 595 Club”</li>
<li>“Vera DeMilo: Pretty Buffed
Woman” (spoof of ‘Pretty
Woman’)</li>
<li>KRS-One closes the show</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>33</td>
<td>20</td>
<td>1991-03-31</td>
<td>THREE</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“B.S. Brothers &
Sistas”</li>
<li>“Summer’s Dawn”</li>
<li>“Lil’ Miss Trouble Runs
Away”</li>
<li>“The Superfly”</li>
<li>“Snackin’ Shack: The New
Waitress”</li>
<li>Four 2 closes the show</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>34</td>
<td>21</td>
<td>1991-04-14</td>
<td>THREE</td>
<td>
RERUNS<br>
<ul>
<li>® ”Anton Volunteers”
(repeat from Season 2, Episode 2)</li>
<li>® ”Fashion Tampons”
(repeat from Season 2, Episode 14)</li>
<li>® ”Spike’s Joint”
(repeat from Season 2, Episode 3)</li>
<li>® ”I Won’t Drift
Away” (repeat from Season 2, Episode
5)</li>
<li>® ”Ejector Bed” (repeat
from Season 2, Episode 16)</li>
<li>® ”Head Detective”
(repeat from Season 2, Episode 13)</li>
<li>® ”Men on Film” (repeat
from Season 2, Episode 1)</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h3>Season 2</h3>
<h1>DISC 4</h1>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>SEQ</th>
<th>EPISODE</th>
<th>AIR DATE</th>
<th>DISC</th>
<th>SKETCHES</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>35</td>
<td>22</td>
<td>1991-04-28</td>
<td>FOUR</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Detecive Head Goes
Bowling” with Ellen Cleghorne</li>
<li>“Handi Man’s Evil
Twin”</li>
<li>“The Arsenio Hall of
Justice”</li>
<li>Public Enemy and Ice Cube close the
show</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>36</td>
<td>23</td>
<td>1991-05-05</td>
<td>FOUR</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>® ”Three Champs and a Little
Lady” (repeat from Season 2, Episode
11)</li>
<li>® ”Black Like You”
(repeat from Season 2, Episode 5)</li>
<li>® ”New Ambassador”
(repeat from Season 1, Episode 5)</li>
<li>® ”Mo’ Money with Whiz
and Ice” (repeat from Season 1,
Episode 9)</li>
<li>The Afros close the show</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>37</td>
<td>24</td>
<td>1991-05-12</td>
<td>FOUR</td>
<td>
SEASON FINALE<br>
<ul>
<li>“Lil’ Magic: The
Audition”</li>
<li>“Oprah’s Restaurant”
with Ellen Cleghorne</li>
<li>“Homey D. Clown: Homey the Sell
Out”</li>
<li>“Men on Television: Blaine
Becomes Hetero”</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>38</td>
<td>25</td>
<td>1991-08-11</td>
<td>FOUR</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Dickie Peterson: Secret
Service”</li>
<li>“A New 911 Message
Service”</li>
<li>“Frenchie at the
Opera”</li>
<li>“Clear Conscience Fur Farm and
Outlet Store”</li>
<li>“Velma Mulholland
Sings”</li>
<li>“Visiting Day for
Oswald”</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>39</td>
<td>26</td>
<td>1991-09-01</td>
<td>FOUR</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>® ”Amazing Grace: Rocky
VI” (repeat from Season 2, Episode
9)</li>
<li>® ”Vera DeMilo: Veracosa
Mistress of Destruction” (repeat from
Season 2, Episode 12)</li>
<li>® ”Mudhead’s
Funeral” (repeat from Season 2,
Episode 1)</li>
<li>® ”Men on Vacation”
(repeat from Season 2, Episode 9)</li>
<li>® ”Homey D. Clown: When Homey
Met Sally” (repeat from Season 2,
Episode 2)</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br>
</body>
</html>
Oh and the forum’s character limit obliged me to select one of the tables that generally works. What follows is the notorious table I’ve called the SS Ross Perot because I cannot get those right 3 columns to line up. Here’s Ross now:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"
http-equiv="Content-Type">
<title>IN LIVING COLOR ► 5 Seasons ●1990 -
1994</title>
<style type="text/css">
.hiheux_oddChild {
background-color: #FFFFDB;}
p {height: 100%;}
H1 {
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<h3>Season 4</h3>
<h1>DISC (to be determined)</h1>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>SEQ</th>
<th>EPISODE</th>
<th>AIR DATE</th>
<th>DISC</th>
<th>SKETCHES</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>70 1 27 September 1992</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Ross Perot NAACP
Meeting”</li>
<li>“Fire Marshal Bill Rebuilds Los
Angeles”</li>
<li>“Rodney King and Reginald Denny
Public Service Announcement”</li>
<li>“Edward James Olmos Does
Yardwork”</li>
<li>“Benita Butrell at the L.A. Riots
”</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>71 2 4 October 1992</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Go on Girl with Barbara Bush and
Hillary Clinton”</li>
<li>“Dueling Psychics”</li>
<li>“Snuff and Roam Go To
Jail”</li>
<li>“Ugly Wanda in Basic
Instank”</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>72 3 11 October 1992</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“MTV’s Political
Coverage”</li>
<li>“Cousin Elsee at the
Wake”</li>
<li>“Woody Allen for Date the
Children”</li>
<li>“Whitney Houston: Get Your Babies
Tonight” (cut from DVD)</li>
<li>“Mr. and Mrs. Brooks”</li>
<li>Gang Starr closes the show</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>73 4 18 October 1992</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>Vanessa Williams: ”You Can All
Just Kiss My Ass” (cut from DVD)</li>
<li>“The Tonight Show with Jay Leno:
Sinéad O’Connor
Protesting”</li>
<li>“Beauty Tips with Lori
Davis”</li>
<li>“George Hamilton Brand Luggage
and Belts”</li>
<li>“Black Peoples Awards”</li>
<li>A.D.O.R. closes the show</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>74 5 25 October 1992</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Trail Mix-a-Lot” in
”Baby Got Snacks” (cut from
DVD)</li>
<li>“Lonnie the Childish
Adult”</li>
<li>“Super Bimbo”</li>
<li>“Def Jam Comedy Hour: Audience
Reactions”</li>
<li>“Juice Mania”</li>
<li>Grand Puba closes the show</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>75 6 1 November 1992</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>Bill Clinton in ”Humpin’
Around” (cut from DVD)</li>
<li>“The Head Detective”</li>
<li>“Ice Poe: At The
Airport”</li>
<li>“Sue Goober: 007 Bond Girl
Audition” (cut from DVD)</li>
<li>“Anton at Comic
Relief”</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>76 7 8 November 1992</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>Shabba Ranks in ”Mr. Ugly
Man” (cut from DVD)</li>
<li>“The Dysfunctional Home Show: How
to Cook Pork and Beans”</li>
<li>“Snuff & Roam:
Nightclubbing”</li>
<li>“Homey D. Clown: Homey’s
Son”</li>
<li>Wreckx-N-Effect closes the show</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>77 8 15 November 1992</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Saturday Night Live’s
Chris Rock and Garrett Morris for Anonymous
Express” (includes Molly Shannon
cameo)</li>
<li>“Ugly Woman: Wanda Meets Luther
the Ugly Man”</li>
<li>“Loomis Simmons: Make Me
Rich!”</li>
<li>“Handi-Man Loses His
Powers”</li>
<li>Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth close the
show</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>78 9 22 November 1992</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Prince of Munchkin Land”
(cut from DVD)</li>
<li>“Mr. & Mrs. Brooks
Thanksgiving Dinner”</li>
<li>“Candy Cane’s Puppet
Show”</li>
<li>“Men on Cooking”</li>
<li>Mary J. Blige closes the show</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>79 10 13 December 1992</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>Madonna in ”Neurotica” (cut
from DVD) ”Gays in the
Military” (cut from DVD)</li>
<li>“Lil’ Magic: Working
Girl”</li>
<li>“Edwin O. Fay’s
Skin-Lightening Treatment (a.k.a
”Your Face is Your
Passport”)”</li>
<li>“Dracula Meets Ugly
Wanda”</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>80 11 20 December 1992</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Driving Miss Schott”</li>
<li>“An Ice Poe Christmas”</li>
<li>“Benita Butrell: Holiday
Volunteer”</li>
<li>“Cephus and Reesie: Tunes for
Tots”</li>
<li>“Why?: Black Eyewitnesses in the
News”</li>
<li>“Al MacAfee: How MacAfee Stole
Christmas”</li>
<li>Jamie Foxx sings This Christmas for the
show’s close (cut from DVD)</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>81 12 3 January 1993</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Vera DeMilo and Little Richard:
The Stank of a Woman” (cut from
DVD)</li>
<li>“The Bodyguard with Grace
Jones” (cut from DVD)</li>
<li>“Cousin Elsee: At the
Hospital”</li>
<li>“Why: Rap Music Used for
Commercials”</li>
<li>“The Dysfunctional Home Show:
Belated Christmas Special”</li>
<li>“Mr. & Mrs. Brooks Second
Honeymoon”</li>
<li>Digable Planets close the show</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>82 13 17 January 1993</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“The Capitol Hillbillies”
(spoof of The Beverly Hillbillies)</li>
<li>“Benita Butrell:
Physician’s Office”</li>
<li>“Amy Fisher’s ’Bang
for Your Buck’ Seminar”</li>
<li>“Tales from the Crib”</li>
<li>“Ross Perot Buys Up
Airtime”</li>
<li>“You Bet Your Career”</li>
<li>Father MC closes the show</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>83 14 6 February 1993</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“La Toya Jackson: Michael
Unwrapped”</li>
<li>“Home Alone Again with Michael
Jackson”</li>
<li>“Michael Jackson Potato
Head”</li>
<li>“Family Feud’s The Royal
Family and The Jacksons”</li>
<li>Another Bad Creation closes the
show</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>84 15 7 February 1993</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Alive II: with Richard
Simmons”</li>
<li>“Loomis Simmons’ The Power
Stretch”</li>
<li>“The Info Group”</li>
<li>“What If Bob Hope was
Black?”</li>
<li>“Sgt. Stacey Koon on
COPS”</li>
<li>“Men on Fitness” (with
guest Damon Wayans, former cast
member)</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>85 16 11 February 1993</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Bill Cosby’s Condom
Commercial”</li>
<li>“Homey D. Clown’s Parole
Romance”</li>
<li>“Ejector Bed”</li>
<li>“Velma on a Blind
Date”</li>
<li>“Ugly Woman’s One Night
Stand”</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>86 17 14 February 1993</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Oswald: Booked on
Phonics”</li>
<li>“Forever Silky”</li>
<li>“Lashawn: Dry Cleaners”
with guest star Sherman Hemsley as
”Mr. Jefferson”</li>
<li>“Reality Check: Singing to Aretha
Franklin” (cut from DVD)</li>
<li>“Fire Marshall Bill: Teppanyaki
Restaurant Safety”</li>
<li>Arrested Development closes the
show</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>87 18 21 February 1993</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Joe Jackson: Lock You in the
Closet” (cut from DVD)</li>
<li>“Suzanne Sommers for
Thighmaster”</li>
<li>“Calhoun Tubbs: Prison
Performance”</li>
<li>“Little Richard in: Dirty Little
Dick”</li>
<li>“Geraldo Rivera: The Black Child
Star Mill”</li>
<li>“Rodney Dangerfield Gets Pulled
Over”</li>
<li>“Mr. & Mrs. Brooks: Garage
Sale”</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>88 19 25 February 1993</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Men on Film Festival”</li>
<li>“Rise to Stardom”</li>
<li>“Cliff Hanger”</li>
<li>“Sponsors”</li>
<li>“Ratings”</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>89 20 28 February 1993</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Boyz II Wimps: End of the
Road” (cut from DVD)</li>
<li>“Jackée Harry in Passenger
227”</li>
<li>“Background Guy at the White
House”</li>
<li>“The Dysfunctional Home Show:
Wedding”</li>
<li>“Ugly Woman: The Fifth En Vogue
Member” (cut from DVD)</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>90 21 7 March 1993</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Isabel Sanford’s Weezies
brand Throat Drops”</li>
<li>“A Different Message”</li>
<li>“Why?: Reporters Affecting
Accents”</li>
<li>“Super Dave Dance
Transition/Finale”</li>
<li>“Charles Bronson’s
’Make a Death Wish’
Foundation”</li>
<li>“Grandpa and Duke the Dead Dog:
Best in Show”</li>
<li>Naughty By Nature closes the show</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>91 22 14 March 1993</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Great Moments In Black History:
The First Record Scratcher”</li>
<li>“Al Sharpton’s Hunger
Strike”</li>
<li>“What If Archie Bunker was
Black?”</li>
<li>“Mr. Rogers: Insufferable
Prick” (a.k.a. ”Mr. Rogers at
the Video Store”)</li>
<li>Heavy D and The Boyz close the
show</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>92 23 21 March 1993</td>
<td>
<p>RERUNS</p>
<ul>
<li>® ”Rodney King and Reginald
Denny PSA”</li>
<li>® ”Why? Black
Eyewitnesses”</li>
<li>® ”Oswald: Booked on
Phonics”</li>
<li>® ”Ross Perot Buys Up
Airtime”</li>
<li>® ”Driving Miss
Schott”</li>
<li>® ”Beauty Tips with Lori
Davis”</li>
<li>® ”Ugly Wanda:
Dracula”</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>93 24 4 April 1993</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“What If Barbra Streisand was
Black?”</li>
<li>“Al MacAfee: Metal Detector at
School”</li>
<li>“Sheila Peace: Employment
Agency”</li>
<li>“Lashawn: Makeover”</li>
<li>“The Black People’s
Show”</li>
<li>Prince Markie Dee and The Soul
Convention close the show</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>94 25 25 April 1993</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Reality Check: Dancing Like The
Fly Girls” (cut from DVD)</li>
<li>“Baby Lonnie at the
Doctor”</li>
<li>“Overly Confident Gay Man Comes
Out”</li>
<li>“Snookie” with Jenifer
Lewis</li>
<li>“Sgt. Koon’s Police
Academy” with Molly Shannon
cameo</li>
<li>Da Youngsta’s close the show</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>95 26 29 April 1993</td>
<td>
RERUNS of the BEST COMMERCIAL PARODIES<br>
<ul>
<li>® ”The Player’s Club
brand Billy Club”</li>
<li>® ”SillyCone Brand Breast
Implants”</li>
<li>® ”Vera De Milo: Milk
Commercial”</li>
<li>® ”Sally Struthers: Feed the
Planet”</li>
<li>® ”Tes-T-Shields Masculine
Hygiene Pads”</li>
<li>® ”Muttco’s Coyote Ugly
One-Night Stand Escape Kit”</li>
<li>® ”George Hamilton Luggage
and Belts”</li>
<li>® ”Amy Fisher’s
”Bang For Your Buck”
Seminar”</li>
<li>® ”Juicemania”</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>96 27 2 May 1993</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Arsenio Hall, Whoopi Goldberg,
and Jay Leno: Undigable Hosts” (cut
from DVD)</li>
<li>“Loomis Simmons: Psychic
Hotline”</li>
<li>“MTV’s Teen
Court”</li>
<li>“James Brown in The Groom
Room”</li>
<li>“Carl ”The Tooth”
Williams” (cut from DVD)</li>
<li>Showbiz, A.G., and Dres from Black
Sheep close the show</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>97 28 6 May 1993</td>
<td>
RERUNS<br>
<ul>
<li>® ”The Superfly”</li>
<li>® ”El Grande Y Spectacular
Muchacho Rocketeer” (”The
Mexican Rocketeer”)</li>
<li>® ”My Left Foot of
Fury”</li>
<li>® ”Oswald: Silence of the
Lambs II”</li>
<li>® ”Passenger 227”</li>
<li>® ”Ugly Wanda in Basic
Instank II”</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>98 29 9 May 1993</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Heterosexual Pride
Parade”</li>
<li>“Reality Check: Wearing a
Bikini”</li>
<li>“Calhoun Tubbs: Chuck E.
Cheddar”</li>
<li>“Thelma & Louise
Jefferson”</li>
<li>“Mrs. Sheridan’s Phone
Call”</li>
<li>“Ugly Wanda: The Queen of the Old
West)”</li>
<li>Onyx closes the show</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>99 30 13 May 1993</td>
<td>
RERUNS<br>
<ul>
<li>® ”Elvis Sighting”</li>
<li>® ”What If Bob Hope Were
Black?”</li>
<li>® ”Woody Allen: Date The
Children”</li>
<li>® ”Jay Leno”</li>
<li>® ”You Bet Your
Career”</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>100 31 16 May 1993</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Grandpa and Duke the Dead Dog:
Beer Commercial Audition”</li>
<li>“Vera De Milo: Breasts Of
Fury!”</li>
<li>“Snackin’ Shack: Eligible
Bachelor”</li>
<li>“Bunny & Clive: Incompetent
Teenage Thugs”</li>
<li>“The Dysfunctional Home Show:
Grandma’s Funeral”</li>
<li>The Pharcyde closes the show</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>101 32 23 May 1993</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>“Joe Jackson: Rock ’Em Sock
’Em Jacksons”</li>
<li>“In Living Color Complaint
Line”</li>
<li>“Lashawn: Beauty Shop” with
LaWanda Page cameo</li>
<li>“Why? Star Trek Aliens Portrayed
By Black People” with Molly Shannon
cameo</li>
<li>“B.S. Brothers: Big
Break”</li>
<li>“In Living Color Complaint Line
#2”</li>
<li>“The Champ: The Tooth Goes to
Senate”</li>
<li>“In Living Color Complaint Line
#3”</li>
</ul>
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EXXON<sup>1</sup> This was originally the fictional ad for
“Colt 45” on the original FOX broadcast, but
has been replaced with “The Exxxon Family” on
DVD and in syndication, FX, FXX, BET, and Centric<br>
<br>
CAKE<sup>2</sup> 25th Episode “cake incident”,
where David Alan Grier runs his finger through the cake and
is subsequently caught and dumped, fanny-first, on top of
the adulterated cake.<br>
<br>
ADLIBBED<sup>3</sup> All versions — including DVD
prints and reruns on FX, FXX, BET, and Centric — edit
out adlibbed lines implying that Richard Gere and Carl
Lewis are homosexuals<br>
<br>
THE AL SHARPTON<sup>4</sup> From Season 3, episode 8: This
sketch is not shown on FXX repeats as well as On Demand,
but it has been replaced with “The Al Sharpton and
Louis Farrakhan Comedy Hour: Haunted House”<br>
<br>
ARCHIE BUNKER<sup>5</sup> Would later become “All Up
in the Family” in the fifth season.<br>
<br>
RIOTS<sup>6</sup> The FXX version inexplicably cuts out the
beginning of Rodney King’s song near the end where he
mentions driving down Foothill Boulevard.<br>
<br>
FIRE MARSHALL<sup>7</sup> The FXX reruns edit out Fire
Marshall Bill’s line that implies he and an Arab man
named Abdul were involved with the 1993 bombing of the
World Trade Center.<br>
<br>
COPS<sup>8</sup> Parody of COPS. Coincidentally, Saturday
Night Live had a similar sketch on the season 19 episode
hosted by Martin Lawrence
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Oh hell I didn’t tidy it.
I am being overcredited here. I don’t even know how to spell j-q-u-e-r-i-e let alone write a color scheme using it. I would go the CSS route.
Where is the Javascript/jQuery script? I didn’t see any in either table.
Seriously, Semi, I’m having trouble following the train of thought in this thread. It seems to be everywhere but following a track. Maybe it’s me…
table hiheaux has 4 tables with 5 columns each.
table Ross has 1 table with 5 columns in a different order than those in hiheaux, and only the left two column have data. The right three are empty.
How can we help you?
If you want the traditional table / table cell borders, then set the table border attribute to 1. Otherwise use CSS to style the borders around the table and table cells separately as you wish.
Unsolicited advice… change your HTML4 doctypes to HTML5 style. It’s easy. Table Ross has an invalid attempt at a transitional doctype. Give yourself a break. Go with the HTML5 doctype. You can’t go wrong. You will need to make a few “adjustments” in the head portion of the page, but that’s easy enough to do.
Hi Sam, yes I do want the cell borders!
this post isn’t empty. (Sorry, Discurse insisted.)
I can see TABLE borders, but none of the (interior) cell borders.
That screenshot was from within Dreamweaver so I could upload a rough approximation of what I’m looking for since it doesn’t work on any browser and if I took that shot of the brower this is what I would see: Nothing. In other words.
No interiors in Firefox
No interiors in Chrome.
Please. Dreamweaver not a browser? Do you think I’m an imbecile? I’m too poor to purchase Adobe’s latest version of DW; coding is not my life; and I don’t do this every day.
Now as I posted earlier, I’ve straightened out the column issues (not the borders, the columns that jumped their tracks). My goal is to get the cell borders to display — the screenshot I uploaded from within DW else you’d be looking at white — and then I’m going to disappear for a bit to study this jquery thing and see if I can get it to work myself.
The cell borders . . . ?
An important point of clarification:
My confusion viz borders is that I don’t know how to refer to two different sets of borders, and my attempt in CSS doesn’t work.
There should be the frame of the table itself — styled border: 10px INSET CYAN; — that works just fine; but I don’t know how to add the second border (the cell borders I can’t make display).
for the third time:
If you do not understand that, or need more detailed help, please specify what you need.