Hide/Show Column in a HTML Table

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One line of code using jQuery which hides the 2nd column: 

$('td:nth-child(2)').hide();

If your table has header(th), use this:

$('td:nth-child(2),th:nth-child(2)').hide();

Source: Hide a Table Column with a Single line of jQuery code

jsFiddle to test the code: http://jsfiddle.net/mgMem/1/

If you want to see a good use case, take a look at my blog post:

Hide a table column and colorize rows based on value with jQuery.

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