Internet Explorer and the hidden table cells.

All the rows in an HTML table have a property called rowIndex, which is the actual index in the rows array. Table cells are in a similar situation with their property cellIndex. BUT, Internet Explorer chooses to interpret cellIndex as the VISIBLE index, rather than the internal one. Netscape, Mozilla and Opera do not exibit this behaviour. Funny thing, the rowIndex works in IE no matter how you hide the rows.

More detailed, style.display='none' makes the cellIndex of the next cells to decrement, while style.visibility='hidden' does not decrement the cellIndex, but keeps the formatting of the page, so you actually see a big empty space where the cell used to be.

I wouldn't have mind this if the Microsoft guys used another index to show the internal value, but they didn't! I have no idea what is the internal index of my cells anymore! Grrr!