table-cell - some kind of colspan?

Question

I am a bit puzzled right now, because I had CSS code that worked, but it wasn\'t beautiful at all. I now want to rework this CSS styles and build them via LESS. And I have b

Answer 1

I found a solution using jquery and table-layout: fixed. Here is my fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/emilianolch/5nvxv5ko/

HTML:

<div class="table">
    <div class="table-row">
        <div class="table-cell">
            top left cell
        </div>
        <div class="table-cell">
            top right cell
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="table-row">
        <div class="table-cell colspan">
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        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="table-row">
        <div class="table-cell">
            bottom left cell
        </div>
        <div class="table-cell">
            bottom right cell
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

CSS:

.table {
    display: table;
    table-layout: fixed;
    width: 100%;
    border-collapse: collapse;
}

.table-row {
    display: table-row;
    border-collapse: collapse;
}

.table-cell {
    display: table-cell;
    padding: 5px;
    border: 1px solid black;
}

.table-cell.colspan {
    display: none;
    /* collapse border */
    margin-top: -1px;
    margin-bottom: -1px;
}

JS:

var rowWidth = $('.table-row:first').width();
var colWidth = $('.table-cell:first').width();
var marginRight = colWidth - rowWidth + 11;
$('.table-cell.colspan').css('margin-right', marginRight + 'px').show()

Answer 2

CSS has no colspan analog. Based on your example, you can just mark up your last row as a separate nontably block.

You could also use display: table-caption in conjunction with caption-side: bottom to display the table row as a last “row” that spans all columns. See live demo.