jump

a abbr address area article aside audio

b base bdi bdo blockquote body br button

canvas caption cite code col colgroup command

datalist dd del details dfn div dl dt

em embed fieldset figcaption figure footer form

h1 h2 h3 h4 h5 h6 head header hgroup hr html

i iframe img input ins kbd keygen

label legend li link map mark menu meta meter

nav noscript object ol optgroup option output

p param pre progress q rp rt ruby

s samp script section select small source span

strong style sub summary sup

table tbody td textarea tfoot th thead time title

tr track u ul var video wbr

global attributes terms

HTML5

← 4.9.2 The caption element – Table of contents – 4.9.4 The col element →

4.9.3 The `colgroup` element

Categories:

None.

Contexts in which this element can be used:

As a child of a table element, after any caption elements and before any thead, tbody, tfoot, and tr elements.

Content model:

If the span attribute is present: Empty.

If the span attribute is absent: Zero or more col elements.

Content attributes:

Global attributes

span

DOM interface:

interface HTMLTableColElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute unsigned long span;
};

The colgroup element represents a group of one or more columns in the table that is its parent, if it has a parent and that is a table element.

If the colgroup element contains no col elements, then the element may have a span content attribute specified, whose value must be a valid non-negative integer greater than zero.