I have created a table in ASPX. I want to hide one of the columns based on the requirement but there is no attribute like visible in the HTML table building. How can I solve my problem?
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You need to use Style Sheet for this purpose.
<td style="display:none;">
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office 302
what about only first coloumn using css of html
office 302
how should i add style to it when i am making table using javascript createelement(td);
Anuraj
@office302 Apply this style only to the first td? Or you want to use only CSS - This you can do something like this
td:first-child { display:none; }
Vitaliy Terziev
@Anuraj it should be noted that :first-child etc. are supported > IE 11 and Edge, good one anyway
You can use the nth-child CSS selector to hide a whole column:
#myTable tr > *:nth-child(2) {
display: none;
}
This works under assumption that a cell of column N (be it a th or td) is always the Nth child element of its row.
If you want the column number to be dynamic, you could do that using querySelectorAll or any framework presenting similar functionality, like jQuery here:
$('#myTable tr > *:nth-child(2)').hide();
(The jQuery solution also works on legacy browsers that don't support nth-child).
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Rick Smith
This can have damaging side effects, see my answer below for an improved solution.
Kos
@RickSmith Good point. Updated my post to avoid the problem in another way (using the child selector).
Rick Smith
child selector is definitely better. Good answer.
Cinoss
Nice solution but need a bit more consideration on the colspan case.
you can also use:
<td style="visibility:hidden;">
or
<td style="visibility:collapse;">
The difference between them that "hidden" hides the cell but it holds the space but with "collapse" the space is not held like display:none. This is significant when hidding a whole column or row.
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Dov Miller
I've found that for div tags collapse also will hold the space. For the div tags you would have to use display: none; in order to truly collapse and not hold the space.
SteveB
visibility: collapse is designed specifically for handling cell showing/hiding, since there is a difference when recalculating cell width/height between this and display:none. See developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/visibility#ValuesKos's answer is almost right, but can have damaging side effects. This is more correct:
#myTable tr td:nth-child(1), #myTable th:nth-child(1) {
display: none;
}
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) will cascade attributes to all of its children. This means that *:nth-child(1) will hide the first td of each tr AND hide the first element of all td children. If any of your td have things like buttons, icons, inputs, or selects, the first one will be hidden (woops!).
Even if you don't currently have things that will be hidden, imagine your frustration down the road if you need to add one. Don't punish your future self like that, that's going to be a pain to debug!
My answer will only hide the first td and th on all tr in #myTable keeping your other elements safe.
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Bootstrap people use .hidden class on <td>.
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cluis92
<td hidden> </td> worked for me! Thanks.
You can also hide a column using the col element https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/HTML/Element/col
To hide the second column in a table:
<table>
<col />
<col style="visibility:collapse"/>
<tr><td>visible</td><td>hidden</td></tr>
<tr><td>visible</td><td>hidden</td></tr>
Known issues: this won't work in Google Chrome. Please vote for the bug at https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=174167
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<style>
.hideFullColumn tr > .hidecol
{
display:none;
}
</style>use .hideFullColumn in table and .hidecol in th.You don't need to add class in td individually as it will be problem because index may not be in mind of each td.
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You can also do what vs dev suggests programmatically by assigning the style with Javascript by iterating through the columns and setting the td element at a specific index to have that style.
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<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<style id="myStyleSheet">
...
</style>
var column = 3;
var styleSheet = document.getElementById("myStyleSheet").sheet;
var rule = "table tr td:nth-child("+ column +"),table th:nth-child("+ column +")
{display: none}";
styleSheet.insertRule(rule);
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Jaimil Patel
Hope It will solve issue but please add explanation of your code with it so user will get perfect understanding which he/she really wants.
Here is another solution to dynamically hide a column.
Define a class for both th and td of the column to hide:
<table>
<tr>
<th> Column 1 </th>
<th class="dynamic-hidden-col"> Column 2 </th>
<th Column 3 </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Value 1 </td>
<td class="dynamic-hidden-col"> Value 2 </td>
<td> Value 3 </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> row 2 Value 1 </td>
<td class="dynamic-hidden-col"> row 2 Value 2 </td>
<td> row 2 Value 3 </td>
</tr>
</table>
And here is the jQuery script for hiding the column:
$('#hide-col').click(function () {
$(".dynamic-hidden-col").hide();
});
This way the table column can be hidden dynamically.
