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<title>CSS Test: Empty cells set to 'hide' are transparent down to the table background</title>
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<style type="text/css">
table
{
background: #ff0;
border: solid black;
empty-cells: hide;
}
tr.top
{
background: orange;
}
td
{
border: 2px solid black;
}
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<p>Test passes if the table below has two rows of cells with black borders, cell '2' spans both rows, and cells '1', '2', '3', '4' have a orange background. There cannot be any visible cells below cells '3' or '4'.</p>
<table>
<tr class="top">
<td> 1</td>
<td rowspan="2"> 2</td>
<td> 3</td>
<td> 4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> 5</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>
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