IE CSS bug: table border showing div with visibility: hidden, position: absolute

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The issue

I have a

on a page which is initially hidden with a visibility: hidden; position: absolute. The issue is that if a

Answer 1

This is a IE bug. Firefox doesn't recognize "border-collapse" using "border-spacing" instead which does not cause this problem. The solution of using "display:none" works, but there's another possibility. If the visibility property is set using Javascript then the border is hidden as well (as expected).