Chrome doesn't honor row height if rowspan is present

Question

I want to make a table with a cell that spans on two rows. The second row must have the height size as minimum as possible. Example:

html:

Answer 1

try position:fixed

it sort of works. http://jsfiddle.net/43CEX/

i think in general you want to use divs for this kind of work, since tables natively grow by their own

update

this http://jsfiddle.net/h4Ycj/

or this http://jsfiddle.net/m7eqm/