HTML colspan?

Question

Code is below. I'm trying to get the second row to spread across all three columns equally. Right now it just goes through only one column at a time. Any help appreciated:).

<table border="2">
<tr>
<td>Red</td>
<td>Blue</td>
<td>Green</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1"><br /></td>
<td>Long, Long, Maaaaan!</td>
</tr>
</table>

Answer 1

Just delete the <td>Long, Long Maaaaan!</td> and add colspan="3" to previous <td>

Answer 2

Thanks Giorgos and Robin. I wrote out (practiced) with both versions and do understand better now. Thanks again!

Answer 3

Your colspan is in the right location, but you need to set it to 3 (as it defines the number of columns it should span over)
The same principle applies for rowspan/rows
And assuming you want that "Long" text there, your line of code should be

<td colspan="3">Long, Long, Maaaaan! </td>

Hope you understand it better now