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<title>CSS Test: Hidden empty cells are transparent down to table background</title>
<link rel="author" title="Microsoft" href="http://www.microsoft.com/" />
<link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#table-layers" />
<meta name="assert" content="If 'empty-cells' is set to 'hide', empty cells are transparent all the way down to the table background." />
<style type="text/css">
table
{
background: orange;
border-collapse: separate;
border-spacing: 0;
}
colgroup, col, tbody, tr
{
background: blue;
}
td
{
height: 2em;
width: 2em;
}
#test
{
background: red;
empty-cells: hide;
}
</style>
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<body>
<p>Test passes if there is an orange square in the middle of the blue square below.</p>
<table>
<colgroup>
<col />
<col />
<col />
</colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td id="test"></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
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