- From: PSA <posom@posom.com>
- Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 17:17:40 -0700
- To: html-tidy@w3.org
Klaus Johannes Rusch wrote: > > In <200109042257.KAA225290@atlas.otago.ac.nz>, "Richard A. O'Keefe" <ok@atlas.otago.ac.nz> writes: > > I do remember having trouble with empty table cells, so I don't ever write > > them any more, but it was sufficiently long ago that I no longer recall why. > > Probably because most rendering engines don't display a cell border around an > empty cell. Actually, the cell itself usually "collapses". Thus, there is no background fill rendered, and no border. Further, if all cells in a given row or column are empty, the table will render as if the row or column didn't exist at all. This is contrary to what most people think of when referring to an empty cell (namely, a reserved space which doesn't happen to have any text or graphic, but still takes up space as if it contained a line of text with the default formatting) and so is used to provide that line of text without actually showing any text. This is very similar to the <p> </p> issue.
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