Interactive demo page on table column and table row collapse and visibility in DOM 2 compliant browsers

Table caption
1^st col.	2^nd col.	3^rd col.	4^th col.	5^th col. and some longer text
2^nd row	thead	abcd	abcd	abcd
5^th row	tfoot	a	b	c
3^rd row	tbody	abc	abc	abc
4^th row	tbody	ab	ab	ab

1^st col	2^nd col.	3^rd col.	4^th col.	5^th col.
vis.	col.	vis.	col.	vis.	col.	vis.	col.	vis.	col.

border-collapse

Incompatibilities and bugs in this page

Only Mozilla 1.8b2+ supports accordingly visibility: collapse
border collapse doesn't work when visibility:collapse is active (Bug 242997)
visibility: collapse causes incorrect overflow area to be reported (Bug 242998)
HTMLCollection of RefTable.rows[] sequential order should be according to the display (logical) order, not document order (bug 125284 in Opera's BTS)
HTMLCollection of RefTable.rows[] sequential order should be according to the display (logical) order, not document order in Safari and Konqueror: rows in footer must be last in rows HTMLCollection regardless of document order (bug 4571 at WebKit Bugzilla)