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HTML
with THEAD and TBODY but without COLSPAN
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>
Column 1
</th>
<th>
Column 2
</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
Content 1
</td>
<td>
Content 2
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br /> COLSPAN with THEAD and TBODY <span style="background:yellow">(css bug in the middle of green border ? EDIT 14/07/2015 : Works on Chrome but not in Firefox)</span>
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>
Column 1
</th>
<th>
Column 2
</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
Content 1 and 2 (merged cells)
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br /> COLSPAN without THEAD and TBODY
<table>
<tr>
<th>
Column 1
</th>
<th>
Column 2
</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
Content 1 and 2 (merged cells)
</td>
</tr>
</table>
CSS
table {
border-collapse: collapse;
}
th {
border: 4px solid red;
border-bottom: 4px solid black
}
td {
border: 4px solid blue;
}
thead tr {
border-bottom: 5px solid green
}