Comments on: Workaround for IE6 Empty-Cells CSS Support

By: Mumu

Mumu — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:06:00 +0000

not working on IE8

By: brest

brest — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:16:00 +0000

not really useful as it changes the look of the table…but good try

By: Sofox

Sofox — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:32:00 +0000

Lifesaver you are.
Thank you very much

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:15:00 +0000

thanks 4 da advice

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:17:00 +0000

Works perfectly well. Thank you for this hint.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:23:00 +0000

This solution is about as good as you can get. The best alternative (which is better then putting an empty image in the cell which is just really bad code and invalid anyways) is to put a blank space either as a literal blank space or using . But this way is ideal as you can use CSS to apply it across all tables and table cells with very little code and you don’t have to clutter up your HTML with unnecessary code or characters.

This solution can be considered complete and corporate ready.

By: Viktor

Viktor — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:10:00 +0000

its not a complete solution :)

By: Rudolf

Rudolf — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:37:00 +0000

…or you simply use the old Google trick, set an empty image tag into an empty cell as in

not valid HTML according to W3C, but it is a solid thing that works just as well as the even older “spacer.gif”, a small few pixels of a totally transparent image as can be done in Paint Shop Pro….

By: anon

anon — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:49:00 +0000

I feel your pain.

Unfortunately, this appears to simply collapse borders rather than forcing IE to actually respect the empty-cells style. You can simply remove the empty-cells style and this renders the same. Well, it does for me anyhow.