Creating a menu throught a table

[9thatpine]

Hey guys! I'm intending to do a menu throught a table but I can't format the table in the way I want to yet so I'm here asking your worthy help for this one.

The table would be like this:

 

How can I format this in html?

 

Thanks!

[AndyB]

<table border="1">

<tr>
       <td>r1-1</td>
       <td rowspan="4" valign="top">lots of stuff goes here</td>
       <td>r1-3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
       <td>r2-1</td>
       <td>r2-3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
       <td>r3-1</td>
       <td>r3-3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
       <td>r4-1</td>
       <td>r4-3</td>
</tr>
</table>