Colspan for Body Cells - workaround with a custom cell ?

[jbirtel]

Hi
I was just wondering if there is a way to not only group columns of the header rows, but also of the body rows.

So, I would like to get my rows like this, for example:

___________________________________________
|  Code        |    short text .......... |  
|  longer text combined in both columns   |
| ________________________________________| 
|  Code 2      |    short text 2......... |  
|  longer text combined in both columns 2 |
|_________________________________________| 
....

So basically, what I am looking for is a colspan for body columns.
Or, to work around this, do I need to create a custom cell that is of this form and I give it to the table as one cell ?