Change columnspan using CSS

Question

Is there a way I can change colspan of td using CSS or this needs to be done only in html?

Answer 1

It's an HTML only property:

<td colspan="2">

There is no CSS equivalent of this (as far as I know.)

Answer 2

I doubt that this is possible.

colspan relates to the structure of the document - so it is handled by the HTML/XML.

css only handles things that are to do with the presentation of the document.

Have you considered using XSL/XSLT on the XML? They might be more useful.