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Michael Laplante
visibility:hidden versus display:none.
What are the differences and when would you use one over the other?
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What are the differences and when would you use one over the other?
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Hywel Jenkins
Michael said:
Try them and see. "visibility" simply hides content, "display" also
removes it from the flow.
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ironcorona
Michael said:
visibility:hidden means that the element is still there and taking up
space on the screen but just can't be seen. (the space taken up by the
content is just a white box).
display:none means that the content is taken out of the flow of the page
altogether. (it may as well not be there in the first place).
As to when you would use one over the other:
When ever you consider appropriate I guess
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Andy Dingley
Michael said:
It's the difference between [visibility] painting one out (but it still
leaving a hole behind) and [display] vanishing altogether as if it had
never been there, with the other elements flowing around into its
space.
Generally use display:none;
If you want to make a "menu button" vanish, but without disturbing the
rest of a toolbar, then use visibility.
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dorayme
ironcorona said:
Experienced folk can still feel its presence (or absence?)...
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ironcorona
dorayme said:
Like the way one can feel the presence of the previous occupant when one
goes to the toilet and the seat's warm.
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dorayme
ironcorona said:Like the way one can feel the presence of the previous occupant when one
goes to the toilet and the seat's warm.
No, it is more like knowing something has changed but not knowing
quite what when one walks into a room where the clock stopped
ticking a while back...
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ironcorona
dorayme said:
Similar in many ways to the inference that Santa has been, when one
finds cookie crumbs and an glass of milk under the tree.
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dorayme
ironcorona said:
Again, no. Your cases are of actual physical things. It is the
absence of them that is important.
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ironcorona
dorayme said:
Oh I see what you're getting at. Though I'm not entirely sure that
Santa counts as an actual physical thing
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dorayme
ironcorona said:dorayme wrote:
Oh I see what you're getting at. Though I'm not entirely sure that
Santa counts as an actual physical thing
<g> ... but breadcrumbs and glasses and milk are, no?
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ironcorona
Knowing that last night you said something stupid to someone but not
remembering what due to one to many Long Island Ice Teas?
remembering what due to one to many Long Island Ice Teas?
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Mark Parnell
Deciding to do something for the good of humanity, dorayme
OK, so it's the absence of the cookies and milk that you left there the
night before that tells you Santa has been.
Of course, you could blame your cat.
OK, so it's the absence of the cookies and milk that you left there the
night before that tells you Santa has been.
Of course, you could blame your cat.
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ironcorona
Mark said:
Except your cat's been missing for the last six months. So perhaps it's
the absence of your cat that tells you Santa has been.
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dorayme
ironcorona said:
Please! If you are going to do nonsense, you must be sensible
about it. We are talking noticing things on the spot, short term.
Throwing in a 6 month gap is unacceptable babbling.