How can I merge cells in a product description table?

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Topic summary

A user is unable to merge cells in product description tables on their Shopify store pages.

Solution Provided:

  • Switch to HTML editing mode in the Shopify editor
  • Locate the table in the HTML code
  • Use colspan and rowspan attributes with <th> or <td> tags to merge cells

Example Code:
The response includes HTML markup demonstrating how to merge cells using colspan="2" attribute, showing a table structure with merged header cells and regular cells.

Status: A technical solution has been offered, though implementation confirmation is pending.

Summarized with AI on November 19. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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Switch to HTML editing mode in the Shopify editor and manually modify the HTML code to merge cells. Locate the table in the HTML code and use the appropriate HTML tags ( or ) to merge cells using the colspan and rowspan attributes. Here’s an example:

<table>

  <tr>

    <th colspan="2">

Merged Cells

</th>

    <th>

Cell 3

</th>

  </tr>

  <tr>

    <td>

Cell 1

</td>

    <td>

Cell 2

</td>

    <td>

Cell 3

</td>

  </tr>

</table>