How to treat an empty row as nothing 1

davejackson · Jun 19, 2003

Hi,
I'm outputting html from custom tags using style sheets. Sometimes the row will be empty and I'd like the output to appear as if there is no row there at all. No matter how I change the border, margins etc., the empty table row still takes up some space on the page. Is it possible to eliminate this?
(Unfortunately I can't put the <tr> tag within the custom tag and chose not to output it as there may be a number of tags used in conjunction with each other outputting to the same row).
Thanks,
Dave

mwolf00 · Jun 19, 2003

You can hide or remove it using Javascript DOM... This may need to be altered depending on what you mean when you say "Sometimes the row will be empty". If it still has TDs that are empty, let me know and I can alter it for that situation...

<script>
function hideRows(){
allRows = document.getELementsByTagName("tr&quot

for (x=0; x< allRows.length; x++){
if (allRows[x].innerHTML == "&quot

{
allRows[x].style.display = "none"
}
}
}
</script>
<body onLoad="hideRows()">

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davejackson · Jun 20, 2003

Works perfectly, thank you.

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