Bootstrap combining rows (rowspan)

Question

I am testing Twitter Bootstrap and got stuck with basic scaffolding with rows. I revisited their documentation number of times and I can see nesting columns where you can basically nest columns within a column but I cannot locate the capability of combining rows into one and have it aligned with column next to the uncombined rows.

Below picture should illustrate what I want to accomplish.

The only workaround solution I came across is using tables but I don't like this idea as my view is that the responsiveness wouldn't work with the use of tables.

Does anyone have any elegant solution to this? Most of the web layout I do will need fine level of flexibility so it will be great if I could pick up something useful here.

Answer 1

Divs stack vertically by default, so there is no need for special handling of "rows" within a column.

div {
  height:50px;
}
.short-div {
  height:25px;
}

<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />

<div class="container">
  <h1>Responsive Bootstrap</h1>
  <div class="row">
    <div class="col-lg-5 col-md-5 col-sm-5 col-xs-5" style="background-color:red;">Span 5</div>
    <div class="col-lg-3 col-md-3 col-sm-3 col-xs-3" style="background-color:blue">Span 3</div>
    <div class="col-lg-2 col-md-2 col-sm-3 col-xs-2" style="padding:0px">
      <div class="short-div" style="background-color:green">Span 2</div>
      <div class="short-div" style="background-color:purple">Span 2</div>
    </div>
    <div class="col-lg-2 col-md-2 col-sm-3 col-xs-2" style="background-color:yellow">Span 2</div>
  </div>
</div>
<div class="container-fluid">
  <div class="row-fluid">
    <div class="col-lg-6 col-md-6 col-sm-6 col-xs-6">
      <div class="short-div" style="background-color:#999">Span 6</div>
      <div class="short-div">Span 6</div>
    </div>
    <div class="col-lg-6 col-md-6 col-sm-6 col-xs-6" style="background-color:#ccc">Span 6</div>
  </div>
</div>

Here's the fiddle.