diff --git a/lib/Cake/Test/Case/View/Helper/HtmlHelperTest.php b/lib/Cake/Test/Case/View/Helper/HtmlHelperTest.php
index 873f6a955..5de351701 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/Test/Case/View/Helper/HtmlHelperTest.php
+++ b/lib/Cake/Test/Case/View/Helper/HtmlHelperTest.php
@@ -1926,6 +1926,21 @@ class HtmlHelperTest extends CakeTestCase {
 		$result = $this->Html->tableCells($tr, array('class' => 'odd'), array('class' => 'even'), false, false);
 		$expected = "<tr class=\"odd\"><td>td content 1</td> <td>td content 2</td> <td>td content 3</td></tr>\n<tr class=\"even\"><td>td content 1</td> <td>td content 2</td> <td>td content 3</td></tr>\n<tr class=\"odd\"><td>td content 1</td> <td>td content 2</td> <td>td content 3</td></tr>";
 		$this->assertEquals($expected, $result);
+
+		$tr = array(
+			'td content 1',
+			'td content 2',
+			array('td content 3', array('class' => 'foo'))
+		);
+		$result = $this->Html->tableCells($tr, null, null, true);
+		$expected = array(
+			'<tr',
+			array('td' => array('class' => 'column-1')), 'td content 1', '/td',
+			array('td' => array('class' => 'column-2')), 'td content 2', '/td',
+			array('td' => array('class' => 'foo column-3')), 'td content 3', '/td',
+			'/tr'
+		);
+		$this->assertTags($result, $expected);
 	}
 
 /**
diff --git a/lib/Cake/View/Helper/HtmlHelper.php b/lib/Cake/View/Helper/HtmlHelper.php
index adb6220d5..9f5409446 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/View/Helper/HtmlHelper.php
+++ b/lib/Cake/View/Helper/HtmlHelper.php
@@ -901,9 +901,16 @@ class HtmlHelper extends AppHelper {
 				if (is_array($cell)) {
 					$cellOptions = $cell[1];
 					$cell = $cell[0];
-				} elseif ($useCount) {
-					$cellOptions['class'] = 'column-' . ++$i;
 				}
+
+				if ($useCount) {
+					if (isset($cellOptions['class'])) {
+						$cellOptions['class'] .= ' column-' . ++$i;
+					} else {
+						$cellOptions['class'] = 'column-' . ++$i;
+					}
+				}
+
 				$cellsOut[] = sprintf($this->_tags['tablecell'], $this->_parseAttributes($cellOptions), $cell);
 			}
 			$options = $this->_parseAttributes($count % 2 ? $oddTrOptions : $evenTrOptions);