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HTML

<table>
    <tr>
        <td id="col">
            <div>empty</div>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>

CSS

table {
    width: 200px;
    background: red;
    margin-top: 100px;
    height: 50px;
    position:relative;
}

#col {
    position: relative;
}

div {
    position: absolute;
    width: 100%;
    background: green;
    top: 0px;
    left: 0px;
}