CSS Property:
visibility:

Result:

This example demonstrates how the visibility property behaves on TABLE elements:

A TD element. Another TD element.

Note: The value "collapse" can only be used on TABLE elements.

Note: The TABLE does only "collapse" in IE and Firefox.

CSS Code:
table#myTABLE {
background-color:yellow;
visibility:visible;
}
Click the property values above to see the result
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