[Javascript] visibility of a table column

[paul at juniperwebcraft.com (Paul Novitski)]

At 10/10/2006 01:09 PM, John Deighan wrote:
>I need to set the visibility of an entire column to hidden or visible.


If it turns out that {visibility: collapse;} has cross-browser 
issues, it might also be worth experimenting with setting the cell 
properties to {width: 0; height: 0; overflow: hidden;}.

<tr>
         <td>blah</td>
         <td class="hideable">Disappearing content</td>
         <td>blah</td>
</tr>

Whichever CSS method you use, if you know which columns you'll need 
to collapse ahead of time, applying a class to the markup and setting 
the class properties in the stylesheeet means not having to cycle 
through the table affecting the Nth cell on every row (which isn't 
difficult, of course, just potentially humanly noticeably 
time-consuming for very large tables).

And there goes my adverb quota for the morning!

Regards,
Paul