- From: Ian Hickson <py8ieh@bath.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:11:38 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Matthew Brealey <webmaster@richinstyle.com>
- cc: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Matthew Brealey wrote:
>
> Ian Hickson wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> Possibly; however, I don't see how treating it as display: none is
> consistent with 'This allows dynamic effects to remove table rows or
> columns without forcing a re-layout of the table in order to account
> for the potential change in column constraints.', since if the row
> is being display: noned, then the table must be reflowed.
It doesn't _have_ to be reflowed, it can just be redrawn without that
row. "Reflow" means that the table cell sizes must be recalculated.
Presumably when hiding cells with "visibility: hidden", the cell sizes
remain the same.
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