How Can I Hide Empty Html Table Cells With Jquery?

I have a 5×7 HTML table. On many queries, there are fewer than 35 items filling the complete table. How can I 'hide' the empty cells dynamically in this case, using jQuery (or any

Solution 1:

Edit - Improved Version

// Grab every row in your table
$('table#yourTable tr').each(function(){
  if($(this).children('td:empty').length === $(this).children('td').length){
    $(this).remove(); // or $(this).hide();
  }
});

Not tested but seems logically sound.

// Grab every row in your table
$('table#yourTable tr').each(function(){
  var isEmpty = true;
  // Process every column
  $(this).children('td').each(function(){
    // If data is present inside of a given column let the row knowif($.trim($(this).html()) !== '') {
      isEmpty = false;
      // We stop after proving that at least one column in a row has datareturnfalse;
    }
  });
  // If the whole row is empty remove it from the domif(isEmpty) $(this).remove();
});

Solution 2:

Obviously you'll want to adjust the selector to fit your specific needs:

$('td').each(function(){
  if ($(this).html() == '') {
    $(this).hide();
  }
});

Solution 3:

$('td:empty').hide();

Solution 4:

How about CSS empty-cells

table {
    empty-cells: hide;
}

Solution 5:

I'm voting for Ballsacian's answer. For some reason,

$('table#myTable tr:not(:has(td:not(:empty)))').hide();

has a bug. If you remove the outermost :not(), it does what you'd expect, but the full expression above crashes jQuery.