title: Setting the height of a table in HTML has no effect
body: <p>Why does this table height not function?</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;table border=1 bgcolor="green" width=80% height="30%"&gt;
      &lt;tr&gt;
          &lt;td rowspan="2" &gt;
              This is 1st row 1st column
          &lt;/td&gt;
          &lt;td &gt;
              2
          &lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;/tr&gt;
  &lt;/table&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><a href="http://jsfiddle.net/zQNS4/" rel="noreferrer">http://jsfiddle.net/zQNS4/</a></p>