title: HTML: Spanning a form across multiple td columns
body: <p>I'd like to be able to do something like this in HTML. It isn't valid HTML, but the intent is there:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;table&gt;
      &lt;tr&gt;
          &lt;th&gt;Name&lt;/th&gt;
          &lt;th&gt;Favorite Color&lt;/th&gt;
          &lt;th&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/th&gt;
          &lt;th&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/th&gt;
      &lt;/tr&gt;
      &lt;tr&gt;
          &lt;form action="/updatePerson" method="post"&gt;
              &lt;input name="person_uuid" value="550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000"/&gt;
              &lt;td&gt;&lt;input name="name" value="John"/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
              &lt;td&gt;&lt;input name="favorite_color" value="Green"/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
              &lt;td&gt;&lt;input type="submit" value="Edit Person"/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
          &lt;/form&gt;
          &lt;td&gt;
              &lt;form action="deletePerson" method="post"&gt;
                  &lt;input name="person_uuid" value="550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000"/&gt;
                  &lt;input type="submit" value="Delete Person"/&gt;
              &lt;/form&gt;
          &lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;/tr&gt;
      &lt;tr&gt;
          &lt;form action="/updatePerson" method="post"&gt;
              &lt;input name="person_uuid" value="f47ac10b-58cc-4372-a567-0e02b2c3d479"/&gt;
              &lt;td&gt;&lt;input name="name" value="Sally"/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
              &lt;td&gt;&lt;input name="favorite_color" value="Blue"/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
              &lt;td&gt;&lt;input type="submit" value="Edit Person"/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
          &lt;/form&gt;
          &lt;td&gt;
              &lt;form action="deletePerson" method="post"&gt;
                  &lt;input name="person_uuid" value="f47ac10b-58cc-4372-a567-0e02b2c3d479"/&gt;
                  &lt;input type="submit" value="Delete Person"/&gt;
              &lt;/form&gt;
          &lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;/tr&gt;
  &lt;/table&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Obviously, I can't do this because I must not have a form tag immediately inside of of a <code>&lt;tr&gt;</code> element. The only alternatives I can see are to use nasty javascript or to change the behavior of my program.</p>
  
  <p>What might be a solution that would allow me to have a form that spans multiple columns like this?</p>