A better alternative than for showing empty HTML table cells?

Question

It\'s a classic problem - when you have an empty table cell the browser doesn\'t render borders around it. There are also two well-known workarounds. One is to place an

Answer 1

You can also put invisible br element:

It is ridiculous amount of unnecessary code, but it makes the trick - no additional text added yet cell is displayed.

Note that
is invalid HTML syntax according to the official specifications http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/text.html#edef-BR. It is valid XHTML syntax however.