Blank row in a table

How can I create a blank row in a table? The browser seems to be
smarter than me, and simply ignores the <tr></tr> tags for the empty
row.
Thanks,
Pat

pmcclure33 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com (Pat) wrote:

How can I create a blank row in a table?

I think the more important questions are "why would you create a blank
row?" and "what do you mean by a blank row"?

The browser seems to be
smarter than me, and simply ignores the <tr></tr> tags for the empty
row.

Pardon? If you tried literally <tr></tr>, then it's a syntax error, and
all bets are off - browsers can do whatever their routines lead to, as
unplanned error processing, or even do some real error processing.

<tr><td></td></tr> is valid. A browser may effectively ignore it, since
there is no content, i.e. the row can be rendered as 0 pixels high, at
least if cellpadding is zero.

<tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr> is valid too, but it has no defined rendering
either, though browsers normally treat it so that they render an empty
row, with height equal to the size of the font.

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