On May 6, 2006, at 5:42 AM, Lori Hylan-Cho wrote: > I was going through the bug reports on the Wiki, and I noticed this > one > [http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=FirefoxBugs] about Firefox not > respecting display:none on table columns. The bug indicates that IE6 > gets it right by hiding the column in question. However, the CSS2.1 > spec > [http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#q4] seems to indicate that > visibility:collapse is what's necessary to hide a table column -- > and in > fact Firefox 1.5 supports this (Opera 8.5 and Safari 2.3 do not, but > neither do they support display:none -- except to hide any other > styles > on the column). > > Does anyone know where the bug is here? Is it true that IE has it > right, > and that display:none *supposed* to work? Is Firefox 1.5 right in > supporting visibiity:collapse instead?
Firefox (and other more civilised browsers) is right in *not* supporting 'display:none' on the <col> tag. But only Fx support visibility:collapse, afaik. As the CSS2.1 page you mention above specifies, there are only 4 properties that applies to the <col> tag: 'border', 'background', 'width', 'visibility' (collapse). See: <http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1070385285&count=1> If you want to hide, let's say the first column of your table, this works <table><col id="col1">....... <tr><td>x</td>......... #col1 {display:none;} tr>td:first-child {display:none;} Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh <http://emps.l-c-n.com> ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
