Merge two HTML table cells

Question

I'm creating a table in HTML and I'd like to have my top cell be the width of two. Here's a rough drawing:

__________________________________________
|                HEADER                  |
|                                        |
==========================================
|                  ||                    |
|     CONTENT      ||       CONTENT      |
|                  ||                    |
------------------------------------------

Is there any way to accomplish this in HTML?

Answer 1

Set the colspan attribute to 2.

...but please don't use tables for layout.