What options are available for indicating an uncommitted delete row operation in a table?

Question

We have an application that lets users modify information in a table that has a fixed number of rows. (That is, the display table has a fixed number of rows.)

They can append / insert new rows, modify existing rows, and delete rows. Once they are completed with the edits, they can commit the changes. We indicate that information is uncommitted by coloring the text in blue.

Example: Here is the initial state of a table that has 7 fixed rows:

After some editing:

After deleting the second row:

What are some ways (in the third figure) to indicate that one of the uncommitted changes made to the table is that a row has been deleted?

Answer 1

Since the user must commit changes, you could indicate changes such as the deleted row by using opacity.

Reduce opacity of the row to be deleted to indicate it's going away.

Answer 2

You could:

1. Put a strike through effect on the deleted row
2. Add an icon and/or text beside each edited row to indicate its state. For example an edited row could have a pencil beside it while a deleted row could have a garbage can (careful to not make them look clickable). You could also add "(edited)" or "(deleted)" either below the icon or as tooltip text to make it really obvious what's going on. Make these thing more subtle than the rest of the row's text, it shouldn't blend in with actual content.
3. Gray out the row and disable any further edits.
4. Move the row to a second table below, titled "Deleted Items", which disappears when nothing is in it. This is really only useful if the first table doesn't have a lot of rows in it.

I was going to list using another colour, like red, but if you have any kind of validation you may already be using red to indicate a validation error. I mention it only for completeness.