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Wilco
Wilco

Reputation: 33354

How to hide table rows without resizing overall width?

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.

Upvotes: 10

Views: 7919

Answers (5)

labilbe
labilbe

Reputation: 3584

You can do it using pure HTML

<table border="1">
  <colgroup>
    <col width="150px" />
    <col width="10px"  />
    <col width="220px" />
  </colgroup>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">1</td>
    <td> </td>
    <td>2</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>3</td>
    <td> </td>
    <td>4</td>
  </tr>
</table>

Upvotes: -1

Klesun
Klesun

Reputation: 13719

CSS rule visibility: collapse was designed exactly for that.

tbody.collapsed > tr {
    visibility: collapse;
}

After adding this CSS you could trigger visibility from JS with:

tbody.classList.toggle('collapsed');

Upvotes: 10

pcorcoran
pcorcoran

Reputation: 8082

In CSS, table-layout: fixed; on your table instructs the browser to honor the sizes you've specified for heights and widths. This generally suppresses auto-resizing by the browser unless you haven't given any hints as to the preferred sizes of your rows and columns.

Upvotes: 2

Wilco
Wilco

Reputation: 33354

For reference, levik's solution works perfectly. In my case, using jQuery, the solution looked something like this:

$('#tableId').width($('#tableId').width());

Upvotes: 3

levik
levik

Reputation: 117579

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;
 }

Upvotes: 9

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