Question

I found the solution on this site for displaying a blank cell when the xml array is repeated, but I can’t seem to find an answer to merging the blank cells.

This is what I’m getting:

This is what I’d like it to look like (in terms of the merged cells):

So my question is, how do I merge those cells – tell the previous cell to use a rowspan? (alternatively, is there a way to tell the empty cells to have no border?

Here is my code:

<tr>
<?php if ($work_name !=$currentWork) { ?>
    <td>
    <?php 
    if ($name != $currentName) {

        echo html_encode($name);
     }

    $currentName = $name; 

    ?>
    </td>


    <td><i>
    <?php 
    if ($work_name !=$currentWork) {

      echo html_encode($work_name); 
    }

    else {

    echo " ";
    }
    $currentWork = $work_name;


    ?></i></td>                             

    <td>
    <?php 
    if ($role_attrs->name == $previousRole) {
    continue;

    }

    else {
    echo html_encode($role_attrs->name); 


    }

    $previousRole = $role_attrs->name;

    ?></td>
 </tr>

I hope that all makes sense!

Answer 1

alternatively, is there a way to tell the empty cells to have no border

It’s much easier way, just add some class to empty cell (like <td class="empty"> </td> and style it in your css with td.empty { border-top:none; }