Setting the number of columns in a table

Specifying the number of columns in a table, despite there actually being more columns - as indicated by the data

Date Created: 2nd January 2007
Date Modified: 2nd January 2007

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Query in WebmasterWorld HTML Forum:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/html/3205719.htm

W3C: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html#column-calc

Want to limit the following table to just 2 columns - despite there being a 3rd <td> in the 3rd row. The specs states that you can set the number of columns using the COL / COLGROUP tags - and this should take precedence - but it does not seem to be supported by the browsers?!

Bob	Frank
Max	James
Gina	Steph	Elliot

Using JavaScript... [Remove Extra Columns]

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