visiblity:hidden of table-cell hides background-color of parent table-row

Question

I have some forms that are structured using display:table-row and display: table-cell. On Firefox 52, I could hide a cell element using visibility:hidden, hiding the cell but keeping the structure defined by CSS (instead of using display:none).

On Firefox 64 though (and also chrome), when I hide the visibility of the cell, the parent table-row loses its background color on that position.

Here's a snippet showing the issue:

#tableRow{
  display: table-row;
  background-color: #f5f5f5;
}
.cell{
  display:table-cell;
}
#hide{
  visibility:hidden;
}

<div id="tableRow">
  <a href="#" class="cell">Visible</a>
  <a href"#" class="cell"id="hide">Not visible</a>
  <a href="#" class="cell">Visible</a>
</div>

I tried using opacity: 0 but some elements are clickable or have different events and opacity on 0 won't help.

Any thoughts? Is this intended?

Answer 1

I would consider box-shadow to simulate a background coloration and avoid this bug *

.container {
  display: table;
}

#tableRow {
  display: table-row;
  box-shadow: -100vw 0 0 red inset;
}

.cell {
  display: table-cell;
  padding: 10px;
}

#hide {
  visibility: hidden;
}

<div class="container">
  <div id="tableRow">
    <a href="#" class="cell">Visible</a>
    <a href="#" class="cell" id="hide">Not visible</a>
    <a href="#" class="cell">Visible</a>
  </div>
</div>

*it's probably not a bug but I am not able to find any specification describing this behavior