So I'm learning some php and found my html skills more then a little rusty. I'm trying to get my textarea to span two table columns. W3schools says I can do a colspan for a `<th>` tag but didn't see if it was supported for `<td>`. I thought about splitting it between two tables same form. Seems like there would be an easier way to do this. I did try td colspan"2" but it didnt do anything

```
   echo '<form action="' . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . '" method="post" id="crud_form">';
   echo '<table id="table_articles">';
   echo '<tr><td>Article Title:</td><td> <input type="text" name="art_title" /></td></tr>';
   echo '<tr><td>Author:</td><td> <input type="text" name="author" /></td></tr>';
   echo '<tr><td>Date Posted:</td><td> <input type="text" name="d_posted" /></td></tr>';
   echo '<tr><td>Article Text:</td></tr>';
   echo '<tr><td><textarea rows="10" columns="60" name="art_text" ></textarea></td></tr>';
   echo '<tr><td><input type="submit" name="submit_art" value="Submit" /></td></tr>';
   echo '</table>';
   echo '</form>';

```

The CSS

```
   #crud_form
   {
   color:red;
   position:absolute;
   left:300px;
   top:200px;
   border-style:outset;
   border-width:5px;
   border-color:red;
   background-color:#cccccc;
   }

   #table_articles
   {
   color:red;
   width:450px;
   height:300px;
   }

```

Thoughts? Thanks for the help.