title: make td element invisible or its inner html blank
body: <p>I have an element like this.</p>
  
  <pre><code> &lt;td id = "reconText" style='vertical-align:bottom;font-weight:bold;'&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have a javascript function that does something else:</p>
  
  <pre><code> if (!showReconText) 
    var obj = document.getElementById("reconText");
    obj.innerHTML = " ";
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It works for me but I am looking for a more elegant solution such as can I hide the td element altogether instead of " " or is there something like String.Empty in javascript/Jquery.</p>