Empty-cells
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CSS 2 property: empty-cells
The empty-cells property controls the rendering of borders and backgrounds around cells that have no visible content, including cells with the visibility property set to hidden. It is used with the separated borders model
Property Values
The empty-cells accepts the following values:
- show
Display the borders and backgrounds.
- hide
Do not display the borders and backgrounds.
- inherit
The element should have the same empty-cells setting as the parent.
empty-cells Initial Value:
show empty-cells Applies To:
Table-cell elements. empty-cells Inheritance:
This property is inherited.
Example
![]() | <style type="text/css"> selector { empty-cells: value; } </style> ... <element attribute="foo">Contents</element> |
Browser Support
If you have tested support for empty-cells in any of the following browsers, please indicate its level of support using one of the following keywords:
- Full
- Partial
- Buggy
- None
If you indicate that support is "Partial" or "Buggy," please add further comments explaining what's missing or what doesn't work right.
- IE 3
- Support is Unknown
- IE 4
- Support is Unknown
- IE 5
- Support is Unknown
- IE 5.5
- Support is Unknown
- IE 6
- Support is Unknown
- IE 7
- Support is Unknown
- NS 3
- Support is Unknown
- NS 4
- Support is Unknown
- NS 4.5
- Support is Unknown
- NS 6
- Support is Unknown
- NS 7
- Support is Unknown
- NS 8
- Support is Unknown
- Firefox 1
- Support is Unknown
- Firefox 1.5
- Support is Unknown
- Firefox 2
- Support is Unknown
- Mozilla
- Support is Unknown
- Opera 6
- Support is Unknown
- Opera 7
- Support is Unknown
- Opera 8
- Support is Unknown
- Opera 9
- Support is Unknown
Tips and Tricks
If you know of any useful or uncommon tips or techniques using this property, please describe them here.
References
- W3C Specification: CSS Specification Level 2
- HTMLpedia: List of CSS Properties