JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

HTML

<table>
    <tr>
        <td>J</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Y</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>A</td>
    </tr>
</table>

<button>Eliminar</button>

CSS

table, table *{
    border: .1em lightgray solid;
}

JavaScript

var filas = document.getElementsByTagName("tr"),
    total = filas.length,
    boton = document.getElementsByTagName("button")[0];

boton.addEventListener("click", function(){
    for (i = 0; i < total; i++){
        var celda = filas[i].getElementsByTagName("td")[0];
        if (!celda.innerHTML.length)
            filas[i].style.height = "none";
    }
}, false);