Re: visibility=collapse

On Thu, 21 May 1998, Frank Boumphrey wrote:

> Perhaps I am missing something, but why should
> <TR STYLE= “visibility:collapse”>.
> 
> be used in stead of
> 
> <TR STYLE= “visibility:hidden”>
> 
> shouldn't they produce the same result.? After all neither causes the
> elements to reflow.

"collapse" has a special meaning for rows, row groups, columns and column
groups in tables. See

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/visufx.html#visibility        and
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/tables.html#dynamic-effects

Tim Bagot