Question regarding tables

[aka.snowball]

Say that i have the following table. How can I do so that the three column takes up as much space as the other six?

In other words i want the three columns below(table cell 1, borttagit,tablecell3) to be the same width as the other six table cells.

How can this be done? I tried limiting the table width to 600px and then set each of those columns to 200 px but didnt work, the table expanded.

And if this is imposible to make in tables or <tbodys> how can i achieve this?

I would like to merge cells like you can in dreamweaver.

thanks

<table border="1" bordercolor="#FFCC00" style="background-color:#FFFFCC" width="600" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3">
		<tr>
		<td>Table Cell</td>
		<td>Table Cell</td>
		<td>Table Cell</td>
		<td>Table Cell</td>
		<td>Table Cell</td>
		<td>Table Cell</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td style="width: 200px;">Table Cell1</td>
		<td style="width: 200px;">Borttagit</td>
		<td style="width: 200px;">Table Cell2</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
		<td>Table Cell</td>
		<td>Table Cell</td>
		<td>Table Cell</td>
		<td>Table Cell</td>
		<td>Table Cell</td>
		<td>Table Cell</td>
	</tr>
</table>

[chrishirst]

use colspan="2" on the cells that need to span two columns

[ascon]

You should use % instead of pixels to allocate the size of the table cells. For cell size of 200 pixels each and total size is 600 pixels, You should use 33% size for each cell of the table.
<td size=33%>write your data<td>

[6degres]

You could also force the table width to "600px" and use "33%" for each column. However, if you have non breaking strings in your columns, i'm not sure how the columns will react (will they get pushed ?). Anyhoot, assuming you dont have a non breaking string of >200px, this should work.