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EmptyTableCellsExample.html
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Empty Table CSS Example</title>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
td{border:1px solid black;padding:10px}
/* syntax 1, used to hide empty cells */
table.syntax1{
empty-cells:hide; /* << here */
padding:10px;
border:1px solid black;
}
/* syntax 2, used to highlight empty cells red */
table.syntax2 td:empty{ /* << here */
border:1px solid red;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>Table with empty cells hidden, using syntax 1</p>
<table class="syntax1">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Col1</th>
<th>Col2</th>
<th>Col3</th>
<th>Col4</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>2</td>
<td></td>
<td>4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table><br/>
<p>Table with empty cells highlighted red, using syntax 2</p>
<table class="syntax2">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Col1</th>
<th>Col2</th>
<th>Col3</th>
<th>Col4</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>2</td>
<td></td>
<td>4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>
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