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MSISK / HTML-TableExtract-2.11 / t / skew.html 
<html><head><title>skew test</title></head>
<body>
<table border=1>
<tr>
    <td>head0</td>
    <td>head1</td>
    <td>head2</td>
    <td>head3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td colspan=4>THIS IS A WHOLE ROW-CELL OF JUNK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td rowspan=2>JUNK</td>
    <td>Tasty tidbit (1,1)</td>
    <td>JUNK</td>
    <td>Tasty tidbit (1,3)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td colspan=2 rowspan=3>BIG<BR>JUNK</td>
    <td>Tasty tidbit (2,3)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>Tasty tidbit (3,0)</td>
    <td>Tasty tidbit (3,3)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>Tasty tidbit (4,0)</td>
    <td>Tasty tidbit (4,3)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td colspan=2>JUNK BUTTON</td>
    <td>Tasty tidbit (5,2)</td>
    <td>Tasty tidbit (5,3)</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>