1 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
2 <html>
3 <head>
4 <title>CSS Test: Empty cells set to 'hide' are transparent down to the table background</title>
5 <link rel="author" title="Microsoft" href="http://www.microsoft.com/">
6 <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#table-layers">
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8 <meta name="assert" content="If 'empty-cells' is set to 'hide', empty cells are transparent all the way down to the table background, (example from spec section 17.5.1).">
9 <style type="text/css">
10 table
11 {
12 background: #ff0;
13 border: solid black;
14 empty-cells: hide;
15 }
16 tr.top
17 {
18 background: orange;
19 }
20 td
21 {
22 border: 2px solid black;
23 }
24 </style>
25 </head>
26 <body>
27 <p>Test passes if the table below has two rows of cells with black borders, cell '2' spans both rows, and cells '1', '2', '3', '4' have a orange background. There cannot be any visible cells below cells '3' or '4'.</p>
28 <table>
29 <tr class="top">
30 <td> 1</td>
31 <td rowspan="2"> 2</td>
32 <td> 3</td>
33 <td> 4</td>
34 </tr>
35 <tr>
36 <td> 5</td>
37 <td></td>
38 </tr>
39 </table>
40 </body>
41 </html>