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HTML

<table id="tblNodes" border=1 width=100%>
                                    <tr>
                                        <td class="nodeData"></td> 
                                    </tr>
    <tr>
                                        <td class="nodeData">
                                            abc
                                        </td> 
                                    </tr>
    <tr>
                                        <td class="nodeData"></td> 
                                            <tr>
                                        <td class="nodeData"></td> 
                                    </tr>
    <tr>
                                        <td class="nodeData">
                                            abc
                                        </td> 
                                    </tr>
    <tr>
                                        <td class="nodeData"></td> 
                                    </tr>

                                    </tr>
                                </table>

JavaScript

$('#tblNodes > tbody  > tr').each(function() {
    if($td.text() == ''){
    $(this).hide();
    }
});