i feel like you are being willfully obtuse at this point.
All I want is two new css properties that mirror the behaviour of the colspan/rowspan html tag attributes. for things that are display:table-cell; (i.e. <td> tags). So that you can do light table manipulation without having to use grid or flexbox, which adds extra cruft that would be made redundant in situations where you want to do something very simple like hide a row.
One last time, i understand this is possible with a whole bunch of css to recreate the entire structure of the table using grid, but if we had these two css properties, you would not need to do all this. it would be more convenient.
If you still do not understand what I was trying to say, I'm sorry, I give up. This conversation has started to genuinely frustrate me at this point.
All I want is two new css properties that mirror the behaviour of the colspan/rowspan html tag attributes. for things that are display:table-cell; (i.e. <td> tags). So that you can do light table manipulation without having to use grid or flexbox, which adds extra cruft that would be made redundant in situations where you want to do something very simple like hide a row.
One last time, i understand this is possible with a whole bunch of css to recreate the entire structure of the table using grid, but if we had these two css properties, you would not need to do all this. it would be more convenient.
If you still do not understand what I was trying to say, I'm sorry, I give up. This conversation has started to genuinely frustrate me at this point.