PS. I prefer to solve this problem with CSS if possible but if there

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PS. I prefer to solve this problem with CSS if possible but if there

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PS. I prefer to solve this problem with CSS if possible but if there is no way, I also have access to JQuery (but no other library).

OK, this is an extension of my previous question. When I was asking that question, I tried to make the scenario as simple as possible. But it seems the colspans in my table are creating a problem. I have a table with 8 columns. At runtime, any number of these elements are removed. There are a few rows with colspan="8" in my table. Using table-layout:fixed; I make the cells have equal width. The problem is the cell with colspan="8" doesn’t resize. This picture shows what I have and what I want:

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And here is the code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<style type="text/css">
table{
    width:600px;
    table-layout:fixed;
}
table td{
    border:1px solid red;
    text-align:center;
    background-color:#9CF;
}
table td:only-child{
    background-color:#CCFFFF;
}
caption{
    color:blue;
    font-size:80%;
}
</style>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<table>
    <caption>Original table</caption>
    <tr>
        <td colspan="8">Cell with colspan=8</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>1</td>
        <td>2</td>
        <td>3</td>
        <td>4</td>
        <td>5</td>
        <td>6</td>
        <td>7</td>
        <td>8</td>
    <tr>
</table>
<table>
    <caption>After some columns are removed</caption>
    <tr>
        <td colspan="8">Cell with colspan=8</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>1</td>
        <td>2</td>
        <td>4</td>
        <td>5</td>
        <td>7</td>
        <td>8</td>
    <tr>
</table>
<table>
    <caption>I want these to have the same width</caption>
    <tr>
        <td colspan="8">Cell with colspan=8</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>1</td>
        <td>Two</td>
        <td>Three</td>
        <td>Column number four</td>
        <td>5</td>
    <tr>
</table>
<table>
    <caption>I want these to have the same width, too</caption>
    <tr>
        <td colspan="8">Cell with colspan=8</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>1</td>
        <td>Column number four</td>
        <td>5</td>
    <tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>