<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>CSS Test: Empty-cells set to 'hide'</title> <link rel="author" title="Microsoft" href="http://www.microsoft.com/"> <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#propdef-empty-cells"> <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#empty-cells"> <meta name="flags" content=""> <meta name="assert" content="An 'empty-cells' value of 'hide' prevents cells without content from having visible backgrounds and borders."> <style type="text/css"> .empty { background-color: red; border: 10px solid red; empty-cells: hide; } </style> </head> <body> <p>Test passes if there is no red visible on the page.</p> <table> <tr> <td class="empty"></td> <td>XXXXX</td> <td>XXXXX</td> </tr> <tr> <td>XXXXX</td> <td class="empty"></td> <td>XXXXX</td> </tr> <tr> <td>XXXXX</td> <td>XXXXX</td> <td class="empty"></td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>