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Why is browser changing my rowspan from "3" to "4" ??

I've got a weird issue where a rowspan which I've set is being changed by the browsers. I set rowspan="3" and browser renders rowspan="4" ( which I can see when I inspect the browser code).

I'm trying to achieve a 6x6 table , where the second row (under the heading row) and 6th row are colspan="6" (full width), and the left cell of rows 3-5 is a single row with rowspan="3" , but for some reason the browser keeps bumping it up to "4" ( and causing the bottom row to not cover the full width)

This is running inside the DNN Action Form module html template.
here's a nippet as an example.

Thanks,

Tom

<table class="table table-bordered" id="equipTable">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Item</th>
<th>Product Image</th>
<th>Manufacturer</th>
<th>Name, Catalog or Model #</th>
<th>Description & Comments</th>
<th>Vendor</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody id="chairs-tbody" style="max-width: 769px;">
<tr class="ergo-headingtr">
<th class="singlerow" colspan="6">Chairs</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="checkboxColumn" id="chairsColumn" rowspan="3" style="padding:0px!important; vertical-align:top; ">[Fields:Chairs]</td>
<td><img alt="" class="ergo-img" src="/Portals/0/County/GSD/Ergo_Form/image018.png" /></td>
<td>Office Master</td>
<td>YS 84</td>
<td>Medium Mesh back, multiple adjustments, armrests optional</td>
<td>Palace Arts</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="bluemobilebg"><img alt="" class="ergo-img" src="/Portals/0/County/GSD/Ergo_Form/image004.png" /></td>
<td>Steelcase</td>
<td>“Amia”</td>
<td>County standard office task chair; high back, seat depth adjustment</td>
<td>PBI</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img alt="" class="ergo-img" src="/Portals/0/County/GSD/Ergo_Form/image008.png" /></td>
<td>Steelcase</td>
<td>“Leap”</td>
<td>High back, multiple adjustments</td>
<td>PBI</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="othertablecell" colspan="6"><span class="other"><strong>Other (specify):</strong></span>[Fields:OtherChairstext]</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

Julian Hansen

That can't happen the browser will not do that.

I have put your code in a test file and confirmed it - so something else is going on - which we are not going to deduce from the code.

You will need to show us a link where it is happening.

Phonebuff

I would hazard a very unsophisticated guess that you have a CSS sytle sheet that is playing with what get's to the browser.. I have been bit by this way before-- Review your Hierarchy for Applying Styles to HTML .

https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_specificity.asp

tommelkonian

ASKER

Thanks - You were both correct. I had some javascript running which was messing with the page (not sure the details,) Removing that fixed the issue.

Thanks again!!

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Why is browser changing my rowspan from &quot;3&quot; to &quot;4&quot; ??

Why is browser changing my rowspan from "3" to "4" ??