[Tex/LaTex] How to make table with different columns per row

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I am trying to put the following table in Sharelatex:

I get how to make basic tables, but tables like the one above I find hard as the columns differ for certain rows. This is de code I have until now:

\begin{table}[h]
\begin{tabular}{|m{4cm}|m{4cm}|m{4cm}|m{4cm}|m{4cm}|m{4cm}}
\hline
\multicolumn{4}{|c|}{Display Format} \\
\hline
&High information-density & Low information-density & \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Number of respondents per treatment}
\label{table:3}
\end{table}

However this is not providing me with the table I want and I am really stuck here. Can someone please help me with this one?

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Try this:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{sans}
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.3}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}
    \begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|c|}
    \hline
    & \multicolumn{4}{|c|}{Display Format}& \\ \cline{2-5}
    &\multicolumn{2}{|c|}{High information density}& \multicolumn{2}{|c|}{Low information density} &\\ \hline
    Cookie type & Noticeable& Non-noticeable& Noticeable& Non-noticeable& Total \\ \hline
    1\textsuperscript{st} - party cookies&29&17&27&20&93\\ \hline
    1\textsuperscript{st}/3\textsuperscript{rd} party cookies&19&22&23&20&84\\ \hline
    Total& 48&39&50&40&177\\ \hline

    \end{tabular}
    \caption{Number of respondants for treatment}
 \end{table}
\end{document}

and image of table obtained by above code:

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To have a layout like that using \multicolumn you'd need to make the table with 90(!) columns (the LCM between the number of columns in each row of that table), then use \multicolumn appropriately to achieve that layout.

A much simpler solution is to stack tables on top of each other, each with a different number of columns, but all with the same width. The document below does that; the code could be made a lot more automagic, to make using it less painful, but that's left as an exercise :)

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\definecolor{tbg}{HTML}{E6E6E6}
\newcolumntype{C}{>{\centering\arraybackslash}X}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}
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  \end{tabularx}\par\nointerlineskip
  \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|p{3cm}|*2{C|}}
    \textbf{Some Name} & 2 & 3 \\ \hline
    Some metric        &   &   \\ \hline
  \end{tabularx}\par\nointerlineskip
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    Some metric        &   &   &   \\ \hline
  \end{tabularx}\par\nointerlineskip
  \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|p{3cm}|*6{C|}}
    \textbf{Some Name} & 1 & 2 & 5 & 10 & 15 & 19 \\ \hline
    Some metric        &   &   &   &    &    &    \\ \hline
  \end{tabularx}\par\nointerlineskip
  \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|p{3cm}|*2{C|}}
    \textbf{Some Name} & 1 & 125 \\ \hline
    Some metric        &   &     \\ \hline
  \end{tabularx}\par\nointerlineskip
  \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|p{3cm}|*5{C|}}
    \cellcolor{tbg}    & \multicolumn{5}{c|}{\cellcolor{tbg} \textbf{Section 2}} \\ \hline
    \textbf{Some Name} & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 \\ \hline
    Some metric        &   &   &   &   &   \\ \hline
  \end{tabularx}\par\nointerlineskip
  \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|p{3cm}|*4{C|}}
    \textbf{Some Name} & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ \hline
    Some metric        &   &   &   &   \\ \hline
  \end{tabularx}\par\nointerlineskip
  \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|p{3cm}|*4{C|}}
    \textbf{Some Name} & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 \\ \hline
    Some metric        &   &   &   &   \\ \hline
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  \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|p{3cm}|*9{C|}}
    \textbf{Some Name} & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 8 & 12 & 16 & 20 \\ \hline
    Some metric        &   &   &   &   &   &   &    &    &    \\ \hline
  \end{tabularx}\par\nointerlineskip
  \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|p{3cm}|*{10}{C|}}
    \textbf{Some Name} & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 8 & 12 & 16 & 20 & 24 \\ \hline
    Some metric        &   &   &   &   &   &   &    &    &    &    \\ \hline
  \end{tabularx}\par\nointerlineskip
\end{table}
\end{document}

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