How do I check if an element is hidden in jQuery?

Question

How do I toggle the visibility of an element using .hide(), .show(), or .toggle()?

How do I test if an element is visible or hidden?

Mammiemammiferous

It's worth mentioning (even after all this time), that $(element).is(":visible") works for jQuery 1.4.4, but not for jQuery 1.3.2, under Internet Explorer 8. This can be tested using Tsvetomir Tsonev's helpful test snippet. Just remember to change the version of jQuery, to test under each one. – Myself

This is related although a different question: #17426043 – Cheiron

If you are not interested in virtual css element hiding, but physical visibility in "viewport area" for user then cosider to see #487573 and #124499 – Obliteration

Answer 1

Since the question refers to a single element, this code might be more suitable:

// Checks CSS content for display:[none|block], ignores visibility:[true|false]
$(element).is(":visible");

// The same works with hidden
$(element).is(":hidden");

It is the same as twernt's suggestion, but applied to a single element; and it matches the algorithm recommended in the jQuery FAQ.

We use jQuery's is() to check the selected element with another element, selector or any jQuery object. This method traverses along the DOM elements to find a match, which satisfies the passed parameter. It will return true if there is a match, otherwise return false.

Pigg

This solution would seem to encourage the confustion of visible=false and display:none; whereas Mote's solution clearly illistrates the coders intent to check the display:none; (via mention of hide and show which control display:none not visible=true) – Stephan

That is correct, but :visible will also check if the parent elements are visible, as chiborg pointed out. – Pigg

Tsvetomir, this doesn't work for IE7 - even when the elements are hidden it thinks that visible=true. Please correct your answer to avoid misleading people. visible and display are different properties and should be treated as such. Mote's answer is the correct one. – Filibertofilibuster

You have a point - I'll make it clear that the code checks only for the display property. Given that the the original question is for show() and hide(), and they set display, my answer is correct. By the way it does work with IE7, here's a test snippet - jsfiddle.net/MWZss ; – Pigg

I actually found that the reverse logic words better: !$('selector').is(':hidden'); for some reason. Worth a try. – Negative

Here's a simple benchmark testing is() against regexp:jsperf.com/jquery-is-vs-regexp-for-css-visibility. Conclusion: if you're out for performance, use regexp over is() (since is() looks for all hidden nodes first before looking at the actual element). – Threefold

Tchalvak, you may feel something is right, but try to explain why. Double negation is confusing as opposed to simple statement, so $('selector').is(':shown'); is much clearer than !$('selector').is(':hidden'); – Pious

@TsvetomirTsonev, to check the parent's visibility, you can use $(element).parent().is(":visible"); I know this is bit old, but will useful for new search – Animator

What does $(element).is(":visible") return, if the element is visible in terms of not having display:none or visibility:hidden, but the user scrolled down so he doesn't actually see it? Is there a simple way to check that? – Strainer

For other users wondering if this really does work in IE7, this might save you some time - it works, jquery 1.9.1: imgur.com/uKD4t8h – Geter

@MaxLeske - I'm pretty sure it's a GIVEN! (most of the time) that when you pull out the regexp knife that you'll take a perf. hit. The extra checks will be nil compared to the overhead/processing of regexp. – Sandberg

How do you do the inverse of this? – Muscovado

I found this informative when looking up about :visible and :hidden. Essentially, it looks at the offsetHeight and offsetWidth allowing it to provide the best coverage (eg. you might have a class which has display:none; as a property and it will correctly report whether it is visible) – Ernestineernesto

So, should we use .is(":invisible") for false? Or !$(element).is(":visible"), or just what? – Densify

@Wolfpack'08: I'm looking for a similar solution as well. So far I've been using $(element).css('display')=='none' to detect hidden elements. – Cockayne

@Negative Also, I believe this works: $(selector).is('not(:hidden)') – Crucifixion

This doesn't work in the latest jquery. It's been deprecated. What's the best work around? (Why did they remove this...?) – Laager

@Laager I don't see anything in the jQuery documentation about this being deprecated. I have also tested it with the latest jQuery and it does still work. Here: jsfiddle.net/F6atJ – Mafala

Not working for element that have parent overflow: hidden; – Jeopardy

Does not work on chrome though works flawlessly in firefox :( Had to do something like jQuery(textarea).parent().css('display') != 'none' instead of jQuery(textarea).parent().is(":visible") – Natation

Changes in 1.12+ and 2.2.0+ and 3.0+ change the counts if multiple elements selected (see note at the bottom of this https://mcmap.net/q/33005/-difference-between-hidden-and-not-visible-in-jquery) – Cheiron

Does not work with jQuery UI Selectmenu, It says my option is hidden even though it is visible. – Taintless

In the off chance it helps anyone: If you're using an animation, such as toggle("slow"), you need to use the callback option and check the visibility there. – Pestana

Answer 2

You can use the hidden selector:

// Matches all elements that are hidden
$('element:hidden')

And the visible selector:

// Matches all elements that are visible
$('element:visible')

Astra

just be careful, there are some good performance related tips in this presentation: addyosmani.com/jqprovenperformance – Writhe

On pages 21 to 28 it shows how slow :hidden or :visible is compared to other selectors. Thanks for pointing this. – Obie

When you're dealing with a couple of elements and very little is going on - i.e. THE ABSURDLY VAST MAJORITY OF CASES - the time issue is a ridiculously minor concern. Oh, noes! It took 42 ms instead of 19 ms!!! – Discourse

I am toggling the element mamually using this selector. $('element:hidden') is always true for me! – Kielty

:hidden is for form elements, not display:none. This is not the answer people are most likely expecting. – Complainant

@Complainant You might want to re-read the documentation, :hidden applies to all elements. Form elements with type="hidden" is just one case that can trigger :hidden. Elements with no height and width, elements with display: none, and elements with hidden ancestors will also qualify as :hidden. – Paba

The embedded presenation on the linked page no longer works, go to slideshare.net/AddyOsmani/jquery-proven-performance-tips-tricks instead. – Sandeesandeep

@Discourse 42ms is actually a bit longer than I would like to wait for the website to respond to my actions - that means around 3 frames of animation dropped/delayed only at 60 fps – Offensive

@Discourse any processing that takes more than 16ms starts dropping FPS. So yes, if it takes 42ms it can be a bad deal if you're interested in performance. – Killing

From jQuery docs: "using :hidden heavily can have performance implications, as it may force the browser to re-render the page before it can determine visibility. Tracking the visibility of elements via other methods, using a class for example, can provide better performance." – Legitimist

The link above to AddyOsmani's website is valid, but Slideshare no longer allows the flash embed. You can view the slides here slideshare.net/AddyOsmani/… – Capability

Answer 3

if ( $(element).css('display') == 'none' || $(element).css("visibility") == "hidden"){
    // 'element' is hidden
}

The above method does not consider the visibility of the parent. To consider the parent as well, you should use .is(":hidden") or .is(":visible").

For example,

<div id="div1" style="display:none">
  <div id="div2" style="display:block">Div2</div>
</div>

The above method will consider div2 visible while :visible not. But the above might be useful in many cases, especially when you need to find if there is any error divs visible in the hidden parent because in such conditions :visible will not work.

Him

This only checks for the display property of a single element. The :visible attribute checks also the visibility of the parent elements. – Sandeesandeep

This is the only solution that worked for me when testing with IE 8. – Resile

@Sandeesandeep Yes, but sometimes that's what you want and I had to learn the hard way how "clever" jQuery was... – Precaution

This does answer the question, being the question is about a single element and by using the hide(), show() and toggle() functions, however, as most have already said, we should use the :visible and :hidden pseudo-classes. – Fletcher

This answer can be used when an element exists but is not currently on the page, such as after detach(). – Emmett

Answer 4

None of these answers address what I understand to be the question, which is what I was searching for, "How do I handle items that have visibility: hidden?". Neither :visible nor :hidden will handle this, as they are both looking for display per the documentation. As far as I could determine, there is no selector to handle CSS visibility. Here is how I resolved it (standard jQuery selectors, there may be a more condensed syntax):

$(".item").each(function() {
    if ($(this).css("visibility") == "hidden") {
        // handle non visible state
    } else {
        // handle visible state
    }
});

Gaylegayleen

This answer is good to handle visibility literally, but the question was How you would test if an element has been hidden or shown using jQuery?. Using jQuery means: the display property. – Disaccord

Elements with visibility: hidden or opacity: 0 are considered to be visible, since they still consume space in the layout. See answer by Pedro Rainho and jQuery documentation on the :visible selector. – Raper

you need to traverse up the DOM to check the node's parents, or else ,this is useless. – Stites

Answer 5

From How do I determine the state of a toggled element?

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You can determine whether an element is collapsed or not by using the :visible and :hidden selectors.

var isVisible = $('#myDiv').is(':visible');
var isHidden = $('#myDiv').is(':hidden');

If you're simply acting on an element based on its visibility, you can just include :visible or :hidden in the selector expression. For example:

 $('#myDiv:visible').animate({left: '+=200px'}, 'slow');

Belda

wondering why no answer mentions the case when element is moved away from the visible window, like top:-1000px... Guess it's an edge-case – Muncy

Answer 6

Often when checking if something is visible or not, you are going to go right ahead immediately and do something else with it. jQuery chaining makes this easy.

So if you have a selector and you want to perform some action on it only if is visible or hidden, you can use filter(":visible") or filter(":hidden") followed by chaining it with the action you want to take.

So instead of an if statement, like this:

if ($('#btnUpdate').is(":visible"))
{
     $('#btnUpdate').animate({ width: "toggle" });   // Hide button
}

Or more efficiently:

var button = $('#btnUpdate');
if (button.is(":visible"))
{
     button.animate({ width: "toggle" });   // Hide button
}

You can do it all in one line:

$('#btnUpdate').filter(":visible").animate({ width: "toggle" });

Hallowell

No reason to extract the DOM node in the snippet used in the example, and then have to look it back up again. Better to just do: var $button = $('#btnUpdate'); And then in the If expressions just use $button instead of $(button). Has the advantage of caching the jQuery object. – Zenaidazenana

here's is a simple example jquerypot.com/… – Birchard

Answer 7

The :visible selector according to the jQuery documentation:

• They have a CSS display value of none.
• They are form elements with type="hidden".
• Their width and height are explicitly set to 0.
• An ancestor element is hidden, so the element is not shown on the page.

Elements with visibility: hidden or opacity: 0 are considered to be visible, since they still consume space in the layout.

This is useful in some cases and useless in others, because if you want to check if the element is visible (display != none), ignoring the parents visibility, you will find that doing .css("display") == 'none' is not only faster, but will also return the visibility check correctly.

If you want to check visibility instead of display, you should use: .css("visibility") == "hidden".

Also take into consideration the additional jQuery notes:

Because :visible is a jQuery extension and not part of the CSS specification, queries using :visible cannot take advantage of the performance boost provided by the native DOM querySelectorAll() method. To achieve the best performance when using :visible to select elements, first select the elements using a pure CSS selector, then use .filter(":visible").

Also, if you are concerned about performance, you should check Now you see me… show/hide performance (2010-05-04). And use other methods to show and hide elements.

Paperhanger

Answer 8

How element visibility and jQuery works;

An element could be hidden with display:none, visibility:hidden or opacity:0. The difference between those methods:

• display:none hides the element, and it does not take up any space;
• visibility:hidden hides the element, but it still takes up space in the layout;

• opacity:0 hides the element as "visibility:hidden", and it still takes up space in the layout; the only difference is that opacity lets one to make an element partly transparent;

  if ($('.target').is(':hidden')) {
    $('.target').show();
  } else {
    $('.target').hide();
  }
  if ($('.target').is(':visible')) {
    $('.target').hide();
  } else {
    $('.target').show();
  }
  
  if ($('.target-visibility').css('visibility') == 'hidden') {
    $('.target-visibility').css({
      visibility: "visible",
      display: ""
    });
  } else {
    $('.target-visibility').css({
      visibility: "hidden",
      display: ""
    });
  }
  
  if ($('.target-visibility').css('opacity') == "0") {
    $('.target-visibility').css({
      opacity: "1",
      display: ""
    });
  } else {
    $('.target-visibility').css({
      opacity: "0",
      display: ""
    });
  }
  

  Useful jQuery toggle methods:

  $('.click').click(function() {
    $('.target').toggle();
  });
  
  $('.click').click(function() {
    $('.target').slideToggle();
  });
  
  $('.click').click(function() {
    $('.target').fadeToggle();
  });
  

Decongestant

Another difference between visibility:hidden and opacity:0 is that the element will still respond to events (like clicks) with opacity:0. I learned that trick making a custom button for file uploads. – Corvese

also if you hide input with opacity:0, it still gets selected with tab key – Lasala

Answer 9

This works for me, and I am using show() and hide() to make my div hidden/visible:

if( $(this).css('display') == 'none' ){
    /* your code goes here */
} else {
    /* alternate logic   */
}

Penetration

Answer 10

You can also do this using plain JavaScript:

function isRendered(domObj) {
    if ((domObj.nodeType != 1) || (domObj == document.body)) {
        return true;
    }
    if (domObj.currentStyle && domObj.currentStyle["display"] != "none" && domObj.currentStyle["visibility"] != "hidden") {
        return isRendered(domObj.parentNode);
    } else if (window.getComputedStyle) {
        var cs = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(domObj, null);
        if (cs.getPropertyValue("display") != "none" && cs.getPropertyValue("visibility") != "hidden") {
            return isRendered(domObj.parentNode);
        }
    }
    return false;
}

Notes:

1. Works everywhere

2. Works for nested elements

3. Works for CSS and inline styles

4. Doesn't require a framework

Deaf

Works slightly differently to jQuery's; it considers visibility: hidden to be visible. – Avignon

It's easy enough to change the code above to mimic the (arguably stupid) jQuery behavior. . . . . function isRendered(o){if((o.nodeType!=1)||(o==document.body)){return true;}if(o.currentStyle&&o.currentStyle["display"]!="none"){return isRendered(o.parentNode);}else if(window.getComputedStyle){if(document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(o, null).getPropertyValue("display")!="none"){return isRendered(o.parentNode);}}return false;} – Deaf

Answer 11

I would use CSS class .hide { display: none!important; }.

For hiding/showing, I call .addClass("hide")/.removeClass("hide"). For checking visibility, I use .hasClass("hide").

It's a simple and clear way to check/hide/show elements, if you don't plan to use .toggle() or .animate() methods.

Osvaldooswal

.hasClass('hide') doesn't check if an ancestor of the parent is hidden (which would make it hidden too). You could possibly get this to work correctly by checking if .closest('.hide').length > 0, but why reinvent the wheel? – Inconstant

Variant you propose returns if element visible on html, my variant returns if element was directly hidden by your javascript code/view engine. If your know that parent elements should never be hidden - use .hasClass() to be more strict and prevent future bugs. If you want to check not only visibility but element state set too - use .hasClass() too. In other cases .closest() is better. – Osvaldooswal

Answer 12

Demo Link

$('#clickme').click(function() {
  $('#book').toggle('slow', function() {
    // Animation complete.
    alert($('#book').is(":visible")); //<--- TRUE if Visible False if Hidden
  });
});

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="clickme">
  Click here
</div>
<img id="book" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Google_Chrome_icon_%282011%29.png" alt="" width="300"/>

Source (from my blog):

Blogger Plug n Play - jQuery Tools and Widgets: How to See if Element is hidden or Visible Using jQuery

Adabelle

Answer 13

ebdiv should be set to style="display:none;". It works for both show and hide:

$(document).ready(function(){
    $("#eb").click(function(){
        $("#ebdiv").toggle();
    });    
});

Ranzini

Answer 14

One can simply use the hidden or visible attribute, like:

$('element:hidden')
$('element:visible')

Or you can simplify the same with is as follows.

$(element).is(":visible")

Evelunn

Answer 15

Another answer you should put into consideration is if you are hiding an element, you should use jQuery, but instead of actually hiding it, you remove the whole element, but you copy its HTML content and the tag itself into a jQuery variable, and then all you need to do is test if there is such a tag on the screen, using the normal if (!$('#thetagname').length).

Recrement

Answer 16

When testing an element against :hidden selector in jQuery it should be considered that an absolute positioned element may be recognized as hidden although their child elements are visible.

This seems somewhat counter-intuitive in the first place – though having a closer look at the jQuery documentation gives the relevant information:

Elements can be considered hidden for several reasons: [...] Their width and height are explicitly set to 0. [...]

So this actually makes sense in regards to the box-model and the computed style for the element. Even if width and height are not set explicitly to 0 they may be set implicitly.

Have a look at the following example:

console.log($('.foo').is(':hidden')); // true
console.log($('.bar').is(':hidden')); // false

.foo {
  position: absolute;
  left: 10px;
  top: 10px;
  background: #ff0000;
}

.bar {
  position: absolute;
  left: 10px;
  top: 10px;
  width: 20px;
  height: 20px;
  background: #0000ff;
}

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class="foo">
  <div class="bar"></div>
</div>

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Update for jQuery 3.x:

With jQuery 3 the described behavior will change! Elements will be considered visible if they have any layout boxes, including those of zero width and/or height.

JSFiddle with jQuery 3.0.0-alpha1:

http://jsfiddle.net/pM2q3/7/

The same JavaScript code will then have this output:

console.log($('.foo').is(':hidden')); // false
console.log($('.bar').is(':hidden')); // false

Stigmasterol

Answer 17

expect($("#message_div").css("display")).toBe("none");

Radioactivity

Answer 18

$(document).ready(function() {
  if ($("#checkme:hidden").length) {
    console.log('Hidden');
  }
});

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="checkme" class="product" style="display:none">
  <span class="itemlist"><!-- Shows Results for Fish --></span> Category:Fish
  <br>Product: Salmon Atlantic
  <br>Specie: Salmo salar
  <br>Form: Steaks
</div>

Chela

Answer 19

To check if it is not visible I use !:

if ( !$('#book').is(':visible')) {
    alert('#book is not visible')
}

Or the following is also the sam, saving the jQuery selector in a variable to have better performance when you need it multiple times:

var $book = $('#book')

if(!$book.is(':visible')) {
    alert('#book is not visible')
}

Species

How did you determined that saving a selector in variable is really faster? – Pilatus

Hi @Ilia Rostovtsev jsperf.com/caching-jquery-selectors There you can run the test. Anyways it's nice to have it cached so it can be accessed faster – Species

This is suitable if you want to use a single variable through out the process instead of calling and calling the same object. – Sawtoothed

Answer 20

Use class toggling, not style editing . . .

Using classes designated for "hiding" elements is easy and also one of the most efficient methods. Toggling a class 'hidden' with a Display style of 'none' will perform faster than editing that style directly. I explained some of this pretty thoroughly in Stack Overflow question Turning two elements visible/hidden in the same div.

---

JavaScript Best Practices and Optimization

Here is a truly enlightening video of a Google Tech Talk by Google front-end engineer Nicholas Zakas:

• Speed Up Your Javascript (YouTube)

Separate

Answer 21

After all, none of examples suits me, so I wrote my own.

Tests (no support of Internet Explorer filter:alpha):

a) Check if the document is not hidden

b) Check if an element has zero width / height / opacity or display:none / visibility:hidden in inline styles

c) Check if the center (also because it is faster than testing every pixel / corner) of element is not hidden by other element (and all ancestors, example: overflow:hidden / scroll / one element over another) or screen edges

d) Check if an element has zero width / height / opacity or display:none / visibility:hidden in computed styles (among all ancestors)

Tested on

Android 4.4 (Native browser/Chrome/Firefox), Firefox (Windows/Mac), Chrome (Windows/Mac), Opera (Windows Presto/Mac WebKit), Internet Explorer (Internet Explorer 5-11 document modes + Internet Explorer 8 on a virtual machine), and Safari (Windows/Mac/iOS).

var is_visible = (function () {
    var x = window.pageXOffset ? window.pageXOffset + window.innerWidth - 1 : 0,
        y = window.pageYOffset ? window.pageYOffset + window.innerHeight - 1 : 0,
        relative = !!((!x && !y) || !document.elementFromPoint(x, y));
        function inside(child, parent) {
            while(child){
                if (child === parent) return true;
                child = child.parentNode;
            }
        return false;
    };
    return function (elem) {
        if (
            document.hidden ||
            elem.offsetWidth==0 ||
            elem.offsetHeight==0 ||
            elem.style.visibility=='hidden' ||
            elem.style.display=='none' ||
            elem.style.opacity===0
        ) return false;
        var rect = elem.getBoundingClientRect();
        if (relative) {
            if (!inside(document.elementFromPoint(rect.left + elem.offsetWidth/2, rect.top + elem.offsetHeight/2),elem)) return false;
        } else if (
            !inside(document.elementFromPoint(rect.left + elem.offsetWidth/2 + window.pageXOffset, rect.top + elem.offsetHeight/2 + window.pageYOffset), elem) ||
            (
                rect.top + elem.offsetHeight/2 < 0 ||
                rect.left + elem.offsetWidth/2 < 0 ||
                rect.bottom - elem.offsetHeight/2 > (window.innerHeight || document.documentElement.clientHeight) ||
                rect.right - elem.offsetWidth/2 > (window.innerWidth || document.documentElement.clientWidth)
            )
        ) return false;
        if (window.getComputedStyle || elem.currentStyle) {
            var el = elem,
                comp = null;
            while (el) {
                if (el === document) {break;} else if(!el.parentNode) return false;
                comp = window.getComputedStyle ? window.getComputedStyle(el, null) : el.currentStyle;
                if (comp && (comp.visibility=='hidden' || comp.display == 'none' || (typeof comp.opacity !=='undefined' && comp.opacity != 1))) return false;
                el = el.parentNode;
            }
        }
        return true;
    }
})();

How to use:

is_visible(elem) // boolean

Clef

Answer 22

Example of using the visible check for adblocker is activated:

$(document).ready(function(){
  if(!$("#ablockercheck").is(":visible"))
    $("#ablockermsg").text("Please disable adblocker.").show();
});

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class="ad-placement" id="ablockercheck"></div>
<div id="ablockermsg" style="display: none"></div>

"ablockercheck" is a ID which adblocker blocks. So checking it if it is visible you are able to detect if adblocker is turned On.

Goldarn

Answer 23

You need to check both. Display as well as visibility:

var $this = $(this)
if ($this.css("display") == "none" || $this.css("visibility") == "hidden") {
    // The element is not visible
} else {
    // The element is visible
}

If we check for $this.is(":visible"), jQuery checks for both the things automatically.

Blessed

Answer 24

$(document).ready(function() {
   var visible = $('#tElement').is(':visible');

   if(visible) {
      alert("visible");
                    // Code
   }
   else
   {
      alert("hidden");
   }
});

<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>

<input type="text" id="tElement" style="display:block;">Firstname</input>

Corie

Answer 25

Simply check visibility by checking for a boolean value, like:

if (this.hidden === false) {
    // Your code
}

I used this code for each function. Otherwise you can use is(':visible') for checking the visibility of an element.

Southport

Answer 26

Because Elements with visibility: hidden or opacity: 0 are considered visible, since they still consume space in the layout (as described for jQuery :visible Selector) - we can check if element is really visible in this way:

function isElementReallyHidden (el) {
    return $(el).is(":hidden") || $(el).css("visibility") == "hidden" || $(el).css('opacity') == 0;
}

var booElementReallyShowed = !isElementReallyHidden(someEl);
$(someEl).parents().each(function () {
    if (isElementReallyHidden(this)) {
        booElementReallyShowed = false;
    }
});

Fantinlatour

Answer 27

But what if the element's CSS is like the following?

.element{
    position: absolute;left:-9999;    
}

So this answer to Stack Overflow question How to check if an element is off-screen should also be considered.

Confiscate

Answer 28

A function can be created in order to check for visibility/display attributes in order to gauge whether the element is shown in the UI or not.

function checkUIElementVisible(element) {
    return ((element.css('display') !== 'none') && (element.css('visibility') !== 'hidden'));
}

Working Fiddle

Coyotillo

Answer 29

Also here's a ternary conditional expression to check the state of the element and then to toggle it:

$('someElement').on('click', function(){ $('elementToToggle').is(':visible') ? $('elementToToggle').hide('slow') : $('elementToToggle').show('slow'); });

Ashaashamed

Or, y'kno, just get rid of the entire conditional and say $('elementToToggle').toggle('slow');... :) – Inconstant

Answer 30

if($('#postcode_div').is(':visible')) {
    if($('#postcode_text').val()=='') {
        $('#spanPost').text('\u00a0');
    } else {
        $('#spanPost').text($('#postcode_text').val());
}

Brahmana

Answer 31

.is(":not(':hidden')") /*if shown*/

Pyretotherapy

Because :not(':hidden') is not the same as is(':visible'). "Visible" works with css "opacity" not with JQuery "show()/hide()". Plus, there is no extra quotation. Every set plays a role in this little code. – Pyretotherapy

1) both :visible and :hidden check CSS element and ancestor visibility and not just the display: none as you now suggest. 2) quotes inside a pseudo-selector are not required if the selector contains only : and alphanumerics (e.g. :not(:hidden) is the same as not(':hidden') (only a little faster) and 3) how will you become better if you cannot accept that you may actually be incorrect sometimes? :) – Thyself

Answer 32

if($('#id_element').is(":visible")){
   alert('shown');
}else{
   alert('hidden');
}

Tinfoil

Answer 33

I searched for this, and none of the answers are correct for my case, so I've created a function that will return false if one's eyes can't see the element

jQuery.fn.extend({
  isvisible: function() {
    //
    //  This function call this: $("div").isvisible()
    //  Return true if the element is visible
    //  Return false if the element is not visible for our eyes
    //
    if ( $(this).css('display') == 'none' ){
        console.log("this = " + "display:none");
        return false;
    }
    else if( $(this).css('visibility') == 'hidden' ){
        console.log("this = " + "visibility:hidden");   
        return false;
    }
    else if( $(this).css('opacity') == '0' ){
        console.log("this = " + "opacity:0");
        return false;
    }   
    else{
        console.log("this = " + "Is Visible");
        return true;
    }
  }  
});

Scram

Just a note, if the selector returns an empty set of items, this method will return true, so check length first if you looking for invisible items : var items = jQuery('.selector'); if (items.length == 0 || !items.isVisible()) { alert('item is not visible'); } – Polychromatic

What about elements which are hidden beneath other items? – Rosser

Answer 34

As hide(), show() and toggle() attaches inline css (display:none or display:block) to element. Similarly, we can easily use the ternary operator to check whether the element is hidden or visible by checking display CSS.

UPDATE:

• You also need to check if element CSS set to visibility: "visible" or visibility: "hidden"
• The element will be also visible if display property set to inline-block, block, flex.

So we can check for the property of an element that makes it invisible. So they are display: none and visibility: "hidden";

We can create an object for checking property responsible for hiding element:

var hiddenCssProps = {
display: "none",
visibility: "hidden"
}

We can check by looping through each key value in object matching if element property for key matches with hidden property value.

var isHidden = false;
for(key in hiddenCssProps) {
  if($('#element').css(key) == hiddenCssProps[key]) {
     isHidden = true;
   }
}

If you want to check property like element height: 0 or width: 0 or more, you can extend this object and add more property to it and can check.

Hope

Answer 35

Just simply check if that element is visible and it will return a boolean. jQuery hides the elements by adding display none to the element, so if you want to use pure JavaScript, you can still do that, for example:

if (document.getElementById("element").style.display === 'block') {
  // Your element is visible; do whatever you'd like
}

Also, you can use jQuery as it seems the rest of your code is using that and you have smaller block of code. Something like the below in jQuery does the same trick for you:

if ($(element).is(":visible")) {
    // Your element is visible, do whatever you'd like
};

Also using the css method in jQuery can result in the same thing:

if ($(element).css('display') === 'block') {
    // Your element is visible, do whatever you'd like
}

Also in case of checking for visibility and display, you can do the below:

if ($(this).css("display") === "block" || $(this).css("visibility") === "visible") {
   // Your element is visible, do whatever you'd like
}

Borglum

Answer 36

There are quite a few ways to check if an element is visible or hidden in jQuery.

Demo HTML for example reference

<div id="content">Content</div>
<div id="content2" style="display:none">Content2</div>

Use Visibility Filter Selector $('element:hidden') or $('element:visible')

• $('element:hidden'): Selects all elements that are hidden.

  Example:
     $('#content2:hidden').show();
  

• $('element:visible'): Selects all elements that are visible.

  Example:
     $('#content:visible').css('color', '#EEE');
  

Read more at http://api.jquery.com/category/selectors/visibility-filter-selectors/

Use is() Filtering

    Example:
       $('#content').is(":visible").css('color', '#EEE');

    Or checking condition
    if ($('#content').is(":visible")) {
         // Perform action
    }

Read more at http://api.jquery.com/is/

Dodeca

Answer 37

This is how jQuery internally solves this problem:

jQuery.expr.pseudos.visible = function( elem ) {
    return !!( elem.offsetWidth || elem.offsetHeight || elem.getClientRects().length );
};

If you don't use jQuery, you can just leverage this code and turn it into your own function:

function isVisible(elem) {
    return !!( elem.offsetWidth || elem.offsetHeight || elem.getClientRects().length );
};

Which isVisible will return true as long as the element is visible.

Hornswoggle

Answer 38

You can use this:

$(element).is(':visible');

Example code

$(document).ready(function()
{
    $("#toggle").click(function()
    {
        $("#content").toggle();
    });

    $("#visiblity").click(function()
    {
       if( $('#content').is(':visible') )
       {
          alert("visible"); // Put your code for visibility
       }
       else
       {
          alert("hidden");
       }
    });
});

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.12.2/jquery.min.js"></script>

<p id="content">This is a Content</p>

<button id="toggle">Toggle Content Visibility</button>
<button id="visibility">Check Visibility</button>

Habited

Answer 39

I just want to clarify that, in jQuery,

Elements can be considered hidden for several reasons:

• They have a CSS display value of none.
• They are form elements with type="hidden".
• Their width and height are explicitly set to 0.
• An ancestor element is hidden, so the element is not shown on the page.

Elements with visibility: hidden or opacity: 0 are considered to be visible, since they still consume space in the layout. During animations that hide an element, the element is considered to be visible until the end of the animation.

Source: :hidden Selector | jQuery API Documentation

if($('.element').is(':hidden')) {
  // Do something
}

Crinite

Answer 40

1 • jQuery solution

Methods to determine if an element is visible in jQuery

<script>
if ($("#myelement").is(":visible")){alert ("#myelement is visible");}
if ($("#myelement").is(":hidden")){alert ("#myelement is hidden"); }
</script>

Loop on all visible div children of the element of id 'myelement':

$("#myelement div:visible").each( function() {
 //Do something
});

Peeked at source of jQuery

This is how jQuery implements this feature:

jQuery.expr.filters.visible = function( elem ) {
    return !!( elem.offsetWidth || elem.offsetHeight || elem.getClientRects().length );
};

2 • How to check if an element is off-screen - CSS

Using Element.getBoundingClientRect() you can easily detect whether or not your element is within the boundaries of your viewport (i.e. onscreen or offscreen):

jQuery.expr.filters.offscreen = function(el) {
  var rect = el.getBoundingClientRect();
  return (
           (rect.x + rect.width) < 0 
             || (rect.y + rect.height) < 0
             || (rect.x > window.innerWidth || rect.y > window.innerHeight)
         );
};

You could then use that in several ways:

// Returns all elements that are offscreen
$(':offscreen');

// Boolean returned if element is offscreen
$('div').is(':offscreen');

If you use Angular, check: Don’t use hidden attribute with Angular

Libriform

Answer 41

This is some option to check that tag is visible or not

 // using a pure CSS selector  
   if ($('p:visible')) {  
      alert('Paragraphs are visible (checked using a CSS selector) !');  
   };  
  
   // using jQuery's is() method  
   if ($('p').is(':visible')) {  
      alert('Paragraphs are visible (checked using is() method)!');  
   };  
  
   // using jQuery's filter() method  
   if ($('p').filter(':visible')) {  
      alert('Paragraphs are visible (checked using filter() method)!');  
   };  
  
   // you can use :hidden instead of :visible to reverse the logic and check if an element is hidden  
   // if ($('p:hidden')) {  
   //    do something  
   // };  

Lot

Answer 42

You can just add a class when it is visible. Add a class, show. Then check for it have a class:

$('#elementId').hasClass('show');

It returns true if you have the show class.

Add CSS like this:

.show{ display: block; }

Televisor

Answer 43

$( "div:visible" ).click(function() {
  $( this ).css( "background", "yellow" );
});
$( "button" ).click(function() {
  $( "div:hidden" ).show( "fast" );
});

API Documentation: visible Selector

Thegn

Answer 44

There are too many methods to check for hidden elements. This is the best choice (I just recommended you):

Using jQuery, make an element, "display:none", in CSS for hidden.

The point is:

$('element:visible')

And an example for use:

$('element:visible').show();

Buggs

Answer 45

Simply check for the display attribute (or visibility depending on what kind of invisibility you prefer). Example:

if ($('#invisible').css('display') == 'none') {
    // This means the HTML element with ID 'invisible' has its 'display' attribute set to 'none'
}

Metzler

Answer 46

Use any of visible Selector or hidden Selector to check visiblity:

1. Use :visible Selector - jQuery( ":visible" )
2. Use :hidden Selector - jQuery( ":hidden" )

use .toggle() - Display and hide element

function checkVisibility() {
    // check if element is hidden or not and return true false
    console.log($('#element').is(':hidden'));

    // check if element is visible or not and return true false
    console.log($('#element').is(':visible'));

    if ( $('#element').css('display') == 'none' || $('#element').css("visibility") == "hidden"){
        console.log('element is hidden');
    } else {
        console.log('element is visibile');
    }
}

checkVisibility()
$('#toggle').click(function() {
    $('#element').toggle()
    checkVisibility()
})

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<button id='toggle'>Toggle</button>
<div style='display:none' id='element'>
    <h1>Hello</h1>
    <p>it's visible</p>
</div>

Smiley

Answer 47

Using hidden selection you can match all hidden elements

$('element:hidden')

Using Visible selection you can match all visible elements

$('element:visible')

Thedrick

Answer 48

There are two ways to check visibility of element.

Solution #1

if($('.selector').is(':visible')){
    // element is visible
}else{
    // element is hidden
}

Solution #2

if($('.selector:visible')){
    // element is visible
}else{
    // element is hidden
}

Trematode

Answer 49

If you want to check if an element is visible on the page, depending on the visibility of its parent, you can check if width and height of the element are both equal to 0.

jQuery

$element.width() === 0 && $element.height() === 0

Vanilla

element.clientWidth === 0 && element.clientHeight === 0

Or

element.offsetWidth === 0 && element.offsetHeight === 0

Prerogative

Answer 50

A jQuery solution, but it is still a bit better for those who want to change the button text as well:

$(function(){
  $("#showHide").click(function(){
    var btn = $(this);
    $("#content").toggle(function () {
      btn.text($(this).css("display") === 'none' ? "Show" : "Hide");
    });
   });
 });

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<button id="showHide">Hide</button>
<div id="content">
  <h2>Some content</h2>
  <p>
  What is Lorem Ipsum? Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged.
  </p>
</div>

Continually

Answer 51

Extended function for checking if element is visible, display none, or even the opacity level

It returns false if the element is not visible.

function checkVisible(e) {
    if (!(e instanceof Element)) throw Error('not an Element');
    const elementStyle = getComputedStyle(e);
    if (elementStyle.display === 'none' || elementStyle.visibility !== 'visible' || elementStyle.opacity < 0.1) return false;
    if (e.offsetWidth + e.offsetHeight + e.getBoundingClientRect().height +
        e.getBoundingClientRect().width === 0) {
        return false;
    }
    const elemCenter   = {
        x: e.getBoundingClientRect().left + e.offsetWidth / 2,
        y: e.getBoundingClientRect().top + e.offsetHeight / 2
    };
    if (elemCenter.x < 0 || elemCenter.y < 0) return false;
    if (elemCenter.x > (document.documentElement.clientWidth || window.innerWidth)) return false;
    if (elemCenter.y > (document.documentElement.clientHeight || window.innerHeight)) return false;
    let pointContainer = document.elementFromPoint(elemCenter.x, elemCenter.y);
    do {
        if (pointContainer === e) return true;
    } while (pointContainer = pointContainer.parentNode);
    return false;
}

Valerle

Answer 52

To be fair the question pre-dates this answer.

I add it not to criticise the OP, but to help anyone still asking this question.

The correct way to determine whether something is visible is to consult your view-model;

If you don't know what that means then you are about to embark on a journey of discovery that will make your work a great deal less difficult.

Here's an overview of the model-view-view-model architecture (MVVM).

KnockoutJS is a binding library that will let you try this stuff out without learning an entire framework.

And here's some JavaScript code and a DIV that may or may not be visible.

<html>
<body>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/knockout/3.4.1/knockout-min.js"></script>
<script>
    var vm = {
        IsDivVisible: ko.observable(true);
    }
    vm.toggle = function(data, event) {
      // Get current visibility state for the div
      var x = IsDivVisible();
      // Set it to the opposite
      IsDivVisible(!x);
    }
    ko.applyBinding(vm);
</script>
<div data-bind="visible: IsDivVisible">Peekaboo!</div>
<button data-bind="click: toggle">Toggle the div's visibility</button>
</body>
</html>

Notice that the toggle function does not consult the DOM to determine the visibility of the div; it consults the view-model.

Imprecate

Answer 53

isHidden = function(element){
    return (element.style.display === "none");
};

if(isHidden($("element")) == true){
    // Something
}

Gurgle

Answer 54

You can use a CSS class when it visible or hidden by toggling the class:

.show{ display :block; }

Set your jQuery toggleClass() or addClass() or removeClass();.

As an example,

jQuery('#myID').toggleClass('show')

The above code will add show css class when the element don't have show and will remove when it has show class.

And when you are checking if it visible or not, You can follow this jQuery code,

jQuery('#myID').hasClass('show');

Above code will return a boolean (true) when #myID element has our class (show) and false when it don't have the (show) class.

Televisor

Answer 55

if($("h1").is(":hidden")){
    // your code..
}

Cheat

Answer 56

You can use jQuery's is() function to check the selected element visible or hidden. This method traverses along the DOM elements to find a match, which satisfies the passed parameter. It will return true if there is a match otherwise returns false.

<script>
    ($("#myelement").is(":visible"))? alert("#myelement is visible") : alert("#myelement is hidden");
</script>

Driftage

Answer 57

The below code checks if an element is hidden in jQuery or visible:

$("button").click(function () {
    // show hide paragraph on button click
    $("p").toggle("slow", function () {
        // check paragraph once toggle effect is completed
        if ($("p").is(":visible")) {
            alert("The paragraph  is visible.");
        } else {
            alert("The paragraph  is hidden.");
        }
    });
});

Hyperostosis

Answer 58

content.style.display != 'none'

function toggle() {
  $(content).toggle();
  let visible= content.style.display != 'none'
  console.log('visible:', visible);
}

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<button onclick="toggle()">Show/hide</button>
<div id="content">ABC</div>

Bantling

Answer 59

   hideShow(){
  $("#accordionZiarat").hide();
  // Checks CSS content for display:[none|block], ignores visibility:[true|false]
  if ($("#accordionZiarat").is(":visible")) {
    $("#accordionZiarat").hide();
  }

  
  else if ($("#accordionZiarat").is(":hidden")) {
    $("#accordionZiarat").show();
  }

  else{

  }

Inferential

Answer 60

The easiest answer to this question is this:

function checkUIElementVisible(element) {
    return ((element.css('display') !== 'none') && (element.css('visibility') !== 'hidden'));
}

Ecclesia

Answer 61

// One element
let isVisible = $("#myButton")[0].checkVisibility(); // Returns true or false

// Multiple elements
$("div").each((i, el) => if (el.checkVisibility()) { /* el is visible... */ });

The new Element.checkVisibility() checks a variety of factors for visibility, including display:none, visibility, content-visibility, and opacity. You can specify those options:

let isVisible = $("#myButton")[0].checkVisibility({
    checkOpacity: true,      // Check CSS opacity property too
    checkVisibilityCSS: true // Check CSS visibility property too
});

See the answer for plain/vanilla JavaScript for more information.

Avidin

Answer 62

Instead of writing an event for every single element, do this:

$('div').each(function(){
  if($(this).css('display') === 'none'){
    $(this).css({'display':'block'});
  }
});

Also you can use it on the inputs:

$('input').each(function(){
  if($(this).attr('type') === 'hidden'){
    $(this).attr('type', 'text');
  }
});

Swirl

Answer 63

You can try this:

$(document).ready(function () {
    var view = $(this).is(":visible");
    if (view) {
        alert("view");
        // Code
    } else {
        alert("hidden");
    }
});

Spiegelman

if(content.not(":visible").length){ – Alduino

Answer 64

$("someElement").on("click", function () {
    $("elementToToggle").is(":visible");
});

Dawn

Your answer could be improved by adding more information on what the code does and how it helps the OP. – Qualification

Answer 65

if ($(element).is(":visible")) {
    console.log("element is visible");
} else {
    console.log("element is not visible");
}

Savagism

Your answer could be improved by adding more information on what the code does and how it helps the OP. – Qualification

Answer 66

You can hide any element with class d-none if you're using Bootstrap.

if (!$("#ele").hasClass("d-none")) {
    $("#ele").addClass("d-none"); //hide
}

Demars

This is only if you are using Bootsrap – Splatter