User:Spike 'em/sandbox/TableTest

No blank row

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
| colspan="12" | colspan 12
|-
| colspan="3" | colspan 3 1
| colspan="3" | colspan 3 2
| colspan="3" | colspan 3 3
| colspan="3" | colspan 3 4
|-
| colspan="4" | colspan 4 1
| colspan="4" | colspan 4 2
| colspan="4" | colspan 4 3
|}

colspan 12
colspan 3 1			colspan 3 2			colspan 3 3			colspan 3 4
colspan 4 1				colspan 4 2				colspan 4 3

Looks like

on latest browsers looks no different to

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
| colspan="4" | colspan 4
|-
| nospan  1
| nospan  2
| nospan  3
| nospan  4
|-
| colspan="2" | colspan 2
| nospan 1
| nospan 2
|}

colspan 4
nospan 1	nospan 2	nospan 3	nospan 4
colspan 2		nospan 1	nospan 2

Row of blank cells

trying to work around by using a row of blank cells...

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
| colspan="12" | colspan 12
|-
| colspan="3" | colspan 3 1
| colspan="3" | colspan 3 2
| colspan="3" | colspan 3 3
| colspan="3" | colspan 3 4
|-
| colspan="4" | colspan 4 1
| colspan="4" | colspan 4 2
| colspan="4" | colspan 4 3
|-
| || || || || || || || || || ||
|}

colspan 12
colspan 3 1			colspan 3 2			colspan 3 3			colspan 3 4
colspan 4 1				colspan 4 2				colspan 4 3

Row of collapsed blank cells

and then try to hide them...

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
| colspan="12" | colspan 12
|-
| colspan="3" | colspan 3 1
| colspan="3" | colspan 3 2
| colspan="3" | colspan 3 3
| colspan="3" | colspan 3 4
|-
| colspan="4" | colspan 4 1
| colspan="4" | colspan 4 2
| colspan="4" | colspan 4 3
|- style="visibility:collapse"
| || || || || || || || || || ||
|}

colspan 12
colspan 3 1			colspan 3 2			colspan 3 3			colspan 3 4
colspan 4 1				colspan 4 2				colspan 4 3