jQuery animate bug with col in Chrome

It seems that animating a col width to 0 is broken in Chrome (Linux) by using jQuery (other browsers seems to work fine). See this example (just click the red box).

Do you know a workaround? Setting width to the TDs and animating th开发者_StackOverflow社区ose is not an option as our columns are quite large.

I'm aware that the question is almost a year old but the solution to this problem is applying a width for the td element. Example: http://jsfiddle.net/B9mHg/55/