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I have a <div> on a page which is initially hidden with a visibility: hidden; position: absolute. The issue is that if a <div> hidden this way contains a table which uses border-collapse: collapse and has a border set on it cells, that border still shows "through" the hidden <div> on IE.
Try this for yourself by running the code below on IE6 or IE7. You should get a white page, but instead you will see:
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Since this is happening on IE and not on other browsers, I assume that this is an IE bug. One workaround is to add the following code which will override the border:
.hide table tr td {
border: none;
}
I am wondering:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
<style type="text/css">
/* Style for tables */
.table tr td {
border: 1px solid gray;
}
.table {
border-collapse: collapse;
}
/* Class used to hide a section */
.hide {
visibility: hidden;
position: absolute;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="hide">
<table class="table">
<tr>
<td>Gaga</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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The solution I found consists in adding a top/left to move the rendering off-screen, which shields us against IE bugs of this sort. In the above example, this means that you would define the CSS for the hide class as:
.hide {
visibility: hidden;
position: absolute;
top: -10000px;
left: -10000px;
}
More on: Workaround for table borders showing through on IE
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This is a IE bug. Firefox doesn't recognize "border-collapse" using "border-spacing" instead which does not cause this problem. The solution of using "display:none" works, but there's another possibility. If the visibility property is set using Javascript then the border is hidden as well (as expected).
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