Column header customization using rowspan and colspan

Question

Hi,
I want to implement customized column header using rowspan and colspan.
This can be done in html easily but not sure how I can implement in HTML DB.
Anybody has idea?
Thanks in advance,
<table border="1">
<!-- begin header -->
<tr>
<td rowspan="2">COL1</td>
<td rowspan="2">COL2</td>
<td rowspan="2">COL3</td>
<td colspan="3">COL4</td>
<td colspan="3">COL5</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>COL4-1</td>
<td>COL4-2</td>
<td>COL4-3</td>
<td>COL5-1</td>
<td>COL5-2</td>
<td>COL5-3</td>
</tr>
<!-- begin data -->
<tr>
<td>VALUE1</td>
<td>VALUE2</td>
<td>VALUE3</td>
<td>VALUE4-1</td>
<td>VALUE4-2</td>
<td>VALUE4-3</td>
<td>VALUE5-1</td>
<td>VALUE5-2</td>
<td>VALUE5-3</td>
</tr>
</table>

Answer 1

Thanks Raj,
you'd want to do this kind of formatting from your report template. we have a technote out on report templates at...
http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/notes/technote_htmldb_format.html
...and, so you know, you'd want to enter your custom col header html into the "Before Rows" field of your template definition screen (kinda like step 8 that's above Figure 5 in the technote).
hope this helps,
raj