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The visibility CSS property shows or hides an element without changing the layout of a document. The property can also hide rows or columns in a .

Try it

To both hide an element and remove it from the document layout, set the display property to none instead of using visibility .

Syntax

/* Keyword values */ visibility: visible; visibility: hidden; visibility: collapse; /* Global values */ visibility: inherit; visibility: initial; visibility: revert; visibility: revert-layer; visibility: unset; 

The visibility property is specified as one of the keyword values listed below.

Values

The element box is visible.

The element box is invisible (not drawn), but still affects layout as normal. Descendants of the element will be visible if they have visibility set to visible . The element cannot receive focus (such as when navigating through tab indexes).

The collapse keyword has different effects for different elements:

• For rows, columns, column groups, and row groups, the row(s) or column(s) are hidden and the space they would have occupied is removed (as if display : none were applied to the column/row of the table). However, the size of other rows and columns is still calculated as though the cells in the collapsed row(s) or column(s) are present. This value allows for the fast removal of a row or column from a table without forcing the recalculation of widths and heights for the entire table.
• Collapsed flex items and ruby annotations are hidden, and the space they would have occupied is removed.
• For other elements, collapse is treated the same as hidden .

Accessibility concerns

Using a visibility value of hidden on an element will remove it from the accessibility tree. This will cause the element and all its descendant elements to no longer be announced by screen reading technology.

Interpolation

When animated, visibility values are interpolated between visible and not-visible. One of the start or ending values must therefore be visible or no interpolation can happen. The value is interpolated as a discrete step, where values of the easing function between 0 and 1 map to visible and other values of the easing function (which occur only at the start/end of the transition or as a result of cubic-bezier() functions with y values outside of [0, 1]) map to the closer endpoint.

Notes

• Support for visibility: collapse is missing or partially incorrect in some modern browsers. It may not be correctly treated like visibility: hidden on elements other than table rows and columns.
• visibility: collapse may change the layout of a table if the table has nested tables within the cells that are collapsed, unless visibility: visible is specified explicitly on nested tables.

Formal definition

Formal syntax

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Some CSS hiding options are all or nothing. The element is either fully visible or fully invisible and there’s no in-between state. Others, such as transparency, can have a range of values, so interpolated CSS animations become possible.

Accessibility

Each method described below will visually hide an element, but it may or may not hide the content from assistive technologies. For example, a screen reader could still announce tiny transparent text. Further CSS properties or ARIA attributes such as aria-hidden=»true» may be necessary to describe the appropriate action.

Be wary that animations can also cause disorientation, migraines, seizures, or other physical discomfort for some people. Consider using a prefers-reduced-motion media query to switch off animations when specified in user preferences.

Event Handling

Hiding will either stop events being triggered on that element or have no effect — that is, the element is not visible but can still be clicked or receive other user interactions.

Performance

After a browser loads and parses the HTML DOM and CSS object model, the page is rendered in three stages:

1. Layout: generate the geometry and position of each element
2. Paint: draw out the pixels for each element
3. Composition: position element layers in the appropriate order

An effect which only causes composition changes is noticeably smoother than those affecting layout. In some cases, the browser can also use hardware acceleration.

1. opacity and filter: opacity()

The opacity: N and filter: opacity(N) properties can be passed a number between 0 and 1, or a percentage between 0% and 100% denoting fully transparent and fully opaque accordingly.

There’s little practical difference between the two in modern browsers, although filter should be used if multiple effects are applied at the same time (blur, contrast, grayscale etc.)

Opacity can be animated and offers great performance, but be wary that a fully transparent element remains on the page and can trigger events.

metric	effect
browser support	good, but IE only supports opacity 0 to 1
accessibility	content not read if 0 or 0% is set
layout affected?	no
rendering required	composition
performance	best, can use hardware acceleration
animation frames possible?	yes
events triggered when hidden?	yes

2. color Alpha Transparency

opacity affects the whole element, but it’s also possible to set the color , background-color , and border-color properties separately. Applying a zero alpha channel using rgba(0,0,0,0) or similar renders an item fully transparent:

Each property can be animated separately to create interesting effects. Note that transparency can’t be applied to elements with image backgrounds unless they’re generated using linear-gradient or similar.

The alpha channel can be set with:

• transparent : fully transparent (in-between animations are not possible)
• rgba(r, g, b, a) : red, green, blue, and alpha
• hsla(h, s, l, a) : hue, saturation, lightness, and alpha
• #RRGGBBAA and #RGBA

3. transform

The transform property can be used to translate (move), scale, rotate, or skew an element. A scale(0) or translate(-999px, 0px) off-screen will hide the element:

transform offers excellent performance and hardware acceleration because the element is effectively moved into a separate layer and can be animated in 2D or 3D. The original layout space remains as is, but no events will be triggered by a fully hidden element.

metric	effect
browser support	good
accessibility	content still read
layout affected?	no — the original dimensions remain
rendering required	composition
performance	best, can use hardware acceleration
animation frames possible?	yes
events triggered when hidden?	no

4. clip-path

The clip-path property creates a clipping region that determines which parts of an element are visible. Using a value such as clip-path: circle(0); will completely hide the element.

clip-path offers scope for interesting animations, although it should only be relied on in modern browsers.

metric	effect
browser support	modern browsers only
accessibility	content still read by some applications
layout affected?	no — the original dimensions remain
rendering required	paint
performance	reasonable
animation frames possible?	yes, in modern browsers
events triggered when hidden?	no

5. visibility

The visibility property can be set to visible or hidden to show and hide an element:

The space used by the element remains in place unless a collapse value is used.

metric	effect
browser support	excellent
accessibility	content not read
layout affected?	no, unless collapse is used
rendering required	composition, unless collapse is used
performance	good
animation frames possible?	no
events triggered when hidden?	no

6. display

display is probably the most-used element-hiding method. A value of none effectively removes the element as if it never existed in the DOM.

However, it’s possibly the worst CSS property to use in the majority of cases. It can’t be animated and will trigger a page layout unless the element is moved out of the document flow using position: absolute or the new contain property is adopted.

display is also overloaded, with options such as block , inline , table , flexbox , grid and more. Resetting back to the correct value after display: none; can be problematic (although unset may help).

metric	effect
browser support	excellent
accessibility	content not read
layout affected?	yes
rendering required	layout
performance	poor
animation frames possible?	no
events triggered when hidden?	no

7. HTML hidden attribute

The HTML hidden attribute can be added to any element:

p hidden> Hidden content p> 

to apply the browser’s default style:

This has the same benefits and flaws as display: none , although it could be useful when using a content management system that doesn’t permit style changes.

8. Absolute position

The position property allows an element to be moved from its default static position within the page layout using top , bottom , left , and right . An absolute -positioned element can therefore be moved off-screen with left: -999px or similar:

metric	effect
browser support	excellent, unless using position: sticky
accessibility	content still read
layout affected?	yes, if positioning is changed
rendering required	depends
performance	reasonable if careful
animation frames possible?	yes, on top , bottom , left , and right
events triggered when hidden?	yes, but it may be impossible to interact with an off-screen element

9. Overlay Another Element

An element can be visually hidden by positioning another over the top which has the same color as the background. In this example, an ::after pseudo-element is overlaid, although any child element could be used:

While technically possible, this option required more code than other options.

metric	effect
browser support	excellent
accessibility	content still read
layout affected?	no, if absolutely positioned
rendering required	paint
performance	reasonable if careful
animation frames possible?	yes
events triggered when hidden?	yes, when a pseudo or child element is overlaid

10. Reduce Dimensions

An element can be hidden by minimizing its dimensions using width , height , padding , border-width and/or font-size . It may also be necessary to apply overflow: hidden; to ensure content doesn’t spill out.

Interesting animated effects are possible, but performance is noticeably better with transform .

metric	effect
browser support	excellent
accessibility	content still read
layout affected?	yes
rendering required	layout
performance	poor
animation frames possible?	yes
events triggered when hidden?	no

Hidden Choices

display: none has been the favorite solution to hide elements for many years, but it’s been superseded by more flexible, animatable options. It’s still valid, but perhaps only when you want to permanently hide content from all users. transform or opacity are better choices when considering performance.

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