The purpose of the table below is to demonstrate how the attributes of "colspan", "rowspan", vertical cell alignment "valign", and cell alignment "left" "center" and "right" affect the end result.

colspan="2"    align="left"    valign="top"
align=left    valign="top"	rowspan="3"
align="left"    valign="middle"
align="left"    valign="bottom"
colspan="2"    align="right"    valign="bottom"

THE HTML CODE FOR ABOVE TABLE.
<table align="center" border="2" width="75%" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5" bgcolor="darkslategray"> <tr> <td height="55" colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">align="left" valign="top"</td></tr> <tr> <td height="55" align="left" valign="top">align=left valign="top"</td> <td height="55" rowspan="3" align="center" valign="middle" width=30%>rowspan="3"<BR><IMG SRC="web/butfly18.gif" width=100></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="55" align="left" valign="middle">align="left" valign="middle"</td></tr>