How to hide table rows without resizing overall width?

Question

Is there a way to hide table rows without affecting the overall table width? I've got some javascript that shows/hides some table rows, but when the rows are set to display: none;, the table with shrinks to fit the contents of the visible rows.

Answer 1

If you are looking to preserve the overall width of the table, you can check it prior to hiding a row, and explicitly set the width style property to this value:

table.style.width = table.clientWidth + "px";
table.rows[3].style.display = "none";

However, this may cause the individual columns to reflow when you hide the row. A possible way to mitigate this is by adding a style to your table:

 table {
  table-layout: fixed;
 }