Why is visible="false" not working for a plain html table?

Question

The visible property of html table does not work.

Why do they have that property if its defective? I had to use style="visibility:hidden" in order to hide a table.

Please explain why. I am very curious

Here's the code I'm using. The intention is to hide the table as a whole but its not hiding the table or the controls inside it

<table visible="false">
  <tr>
    <td >
      <label>Pick the color for action needed and paste it on textbox</label>
    </td>
    <td>
      <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
    </td>
    <td>
      <asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Apply color" />
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

Answer 1

Use display: none instead. Besides, this is probably what you need, because this also truncates the page by removing the space the table occupies, whereas visibility: hidden leaves the white space left by the table.