diff --git a/_utils.sh b/_utils.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5ad1d3bde
--- /dev/null
+++ b/_utils.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+
+declare RED='\033[0;31m'
+declare GR='\033[0;32m'
+declare NC='\033[0m'
+
+# Output functions. Colorize various types of messages. 
+message () { echo -e "$@" 1>&2; }
+confirmation () { message $GR$@$NC; }
+warn () { message $RED$@$NC; }
+error () { message $RED$@$NC; exit 1; }
+
+# Check for and exit if file dependancies are not met. Takes a list of full or
+# relative paths.
+check_file_deps () {
+  for filereq in $@
+  do
+    if [ ! -f "${filereq}" ] && [ ! -L "${filereq}" ]; then error "${filereq}  not found. Quiting."; exit 1; fi
+  done
+}
+
+# Check for and exit if command dependancies are not met. Takes a list of 
+# executables.
+check_util_deps () {
+  for dep in $@
+  do
+    if ! hash $dep 2>/dev/null; then
+      error >&2 "... $dep dependency not met. Please install."
+      exit 1
+    fi
+  done
+}
+
+# Creates an rST  title over/underscore string of the same length
+# as the argument. Section strings are not supported. Returned output
+# is a sequence of equal signs (=).
+make_strike () {
+  local _title="$1"
+  local _strike
+  _strike=$(for ((i=1; i<=${#_title}; i++)); do
+    printf '=%.0s' "$i"
+  done)
+  echo $_strike
+}
+
+# Trim leading and trailing whitespaces from string.
+trimspaces () {
+  local _s=$1
+
+  _s="${_s#"${_s%%[![:space:]]*}"}"
+  _s="${_s#"${_s%%[![:space:]]*}"}"
+
+  echo $_s
+}
+
+declare utils_loaded=1
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/doc/source/shared/strings.txt b/doc/source/shared/strings.txt
index 27bb726e8..9104a69c0 100644
--- a/doc/source/shared/strings.txt
+++ b/doc/source/shared/strings.txt
@@ -55,3 +55,10 @@
    &#124;
 
 .. |optional| replace:: **Optional step:**
+
+.. Flag to mark an output html file for post-build step to hide empty rows
+   in tables. This is mostly useful where some rows are conditionalized.
+
+.. |hide-empty-rows| raw:: html
+
+   <!-- post-build-hide-empty-table-rows -->
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/hide-empty-rows.sh b/hide-empty-rows.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..ddd301a0a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hide-empty-rows.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# strip empty rows from HTML output tables. Max width 10 columns.
+# |hide-empty-rows| must be present in corresponding rst file.
+
+. $(pwd)/_utils.sh
+if [[ -z ${utils_loaded+x} ]]; then echo "Could not load utilities"; exit 1; fi
+
+if [ "$#" -ne 1 ]; then
+    error "Usage: $0 <htmlPath>"
+elif [[ ! -e "$1" ]]; then
+    error "$0: Directory \"$1\" not found"
+fi
+
+declare htmlPath=$1
+declare flag="post-build-hide-empty-table-rows"
+declare td="\n*<td>[\n\s]*</td>\n*"
+declare td_p=${td}
+
+message "Cleaning up empty table rows in flagged files"
+
+declare flagged_files=( $(grep -rl --include="*.html" "${flag}" ${htmlPath}) )
+
+for _html in ${flagged_files[@]}; do
+
+  confirmation "... $_html"
+
+  sed -i -E -e ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n(<\/tr>)/\1/g' ${_html}
+  sed -i -E -e ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n(<td><\/td>+)(<\/tr>)/\1\2/g' ${_html}
+
+  # sed has no non-greedy mode
+  for i in {1..10}; do
+     sed -i -E "s:^<tr class=(\"row-odd\"|\"row-even\")>${td_p}</tr>::g"  ${_html}
+     td_p="$td_p$td"
+  done
+
+  # sed -i -E "s:^<tr class=\"row-odd\">(<td></td>+)(</tr>):<tr hidden>\1\2:g" ${_html}
+done
+
+confirmation "... Done"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 0bcfe6c9d..3e0b5517b 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ commands =
   git clean -dfx doc/source/fault-mgmt/
   git restore doc/source/dist_cloud/kubernetes/*
 #  bash hw-updates.sh
+  bash hide-empty-rows.sh doc/build/html
   bash htmlChecks.sh doc/build/html
 
 [testenv:docs]
@@ -40,6 +41,7 @@ commands =
   {[testenv:postbuild-docs]commands}
 # Note: The dev env for the docs team uses a version of tox that does not yet support allowlist_externals
 whitelist_externals = bash
+                      hide-empty-rows.sh
                       htmlChecks.sh
                       get-remote-files.sh
                       git
@@ -54,6 +56,7 @@ commands =
   sphinx-build -a -E -W --keep-going -d doc/build/doctrees -t starlingx -t openstack -b singlehtml doc/source doc/build/singlepage {posargs}
   {[testenv:postbuild-docs]commands} 
 whitelist_externals = bash
+                      hide-empty-rows.sh
                       htmlChecks.sh
                       get-remote-files.sh
                       git