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 <table>
.
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 <table>
.
To both hide an element and remove it from the document layout, set the display
property to none
instead of using visibility
.
/* 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.
visible
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).
collapse
The collapse
keyword has different effects for different elements:
<table>
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.collapse
is treated the same as hidden
.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.
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 timing function between 0
and 1
map to visible
and other values of the timing 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.
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.Initial value | visible |
---|---|
Applies to | all elements |
Inherited | yes |
Computed value | as specified |
Animation type | a visibility |
<p class="visible">The first paragraph is visible.</p> <p class="not-visible">The second paragraph is NOT visible.</p> <p class="visible"> The third paragraph is visible. Notice the second paragraph is still occupying space. </p>
.visible { visibility: visible; } .not-visible { visibility: hidden; }
<table> <tr> <td>1.1</td> <td class="collapse">1.2</td> <td>1.3</td> </tr> <tr class="collapse"> <td>2.1</td> <td>2.2</td> <td>2.3</td> </tr> <tr> <td>3.1</td> <td>3.2</td> <td>3.3</td> </tr> </table>
.collapse { visibility: collapse; } table { border: 1px solid red; } td { border: 1px solid gray; }
Specification |
---|
CSS Display Module Level 3 # visibility |
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | WebView Android | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | |
visibility |
1 | 12 | 1 | 4["Internet Explorer doesn't supportvisibility: initial .", "Internet Explorer doesn't support visibility: unset .", "Up to Internet Explorer 7, descendants of hidden elements will still be invisible even if they have visibility set to visible ."] |
4 | 1 | 4.4 | 18 | 4 | 10.1 | 1 | 1.0 |
collapse |
12 | 1["Firefox doesn't hide borders when hiding<col> and <colgroup> elements if border-collapse: collapse is set.", "Before Firefox 88, collapse is not supported on ruby annotations."] |
10 | 4["Firefox doesn't hide borders when hiding<col> and <colgroup> elements if border-collapse: collapse is set.", "Before Firefox 88, collapse is not supported on ruby annotations."] |
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