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Re:You might not need jQuery by daleharvey on Thursday January 30, 2014 @03:00PM (#7152983)
Its

   el.hidden = true;
in modern browsers
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Re:You might not need jQuery by rwaldron on Thursday January 30, 2014 @05:58PM (#7153954)
The documented semantics of the hidden attribute say otherwise https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_att... http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/editing.html#th...

" it is incorrect to use hidden to hide panels in a tabbed dialog, because the tabbed interface is merely a kind of overflow presentation — one could equally well just show all the form controls in one big page with a scrollbar"

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Re:You might not need jQuery by nostrademons on Thursday January 30, 2014 @03:40PM (#7153220)
I'm curious - is this spec'd anywhere? I just tried it in Chrome and it works great, but I couldn't find it in any of the specs for Element or Node.
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Re:You might not need jQuery by talmand on Friday January 31, 2014 @11:11AM (#7157334)
According to specs mentioned elsewhere, it seems to have reasons to exist other than just display hide/show purposes.

It's easily overridden by CSS.

el.style.display = 'none' pretty much works everywhere.

To me, it seems to depend upon what the purpose of hiding/showing the element is in specific cases.

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