Thanks chipmunk that was what I was looking for, and using join() was clever. I had thought of using two td calls but I couldn't figure out how to do that in the context of Tr() without creating a new row.
I agree it's an interesting trick, and I upvoted it because he
answered your question in the way you asked him to,
but from a general software engineering perspective it's
a lousy practice. In this case there is no good reason to cram all
those table cells into the smallest possible number of HTML
shortcuts. The resulting code is hard to write, harder to
read, and painful to maintain. This adds up to projects
which take too long and
cost too much if you code like this as a way of life. cLive;-)'s
answer below is the Right Way to do this with HTML shortcuts.