Re: What's the use of visibility: collapse on table rows?

On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Matthew Brealey wrote:

> Invisible rows:
> 
> Given that visibility is inherited and therefore that TR {visibility:
> hidden} will hide its descendant table cells, why does the spec cite
> visibility: collapse as useful in the context of table rows?

My reading of this is that 'collapse' will actually have the same effect
as 'display:none', whereas 'hidden' will leave a blank area where the row
would have been.

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Received on Saturday, 18 March 2000 13:41:58 UTC