Questions tagged [visibility]
Visibility is an attribute of an object. It may refer to the concept of having something visible (or not) on the graphical interface, or a symbol visibility in linkage. This tag should not be used in place of the more specific tags [memory-visibility] or [class-visibility].
visibility
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How do I check if an element is hidden in jQuery?
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?
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What is the difference between visibility:hidden and display:none?
The CSS rules visibility:hidden and display:none both result in the element not being visible. Are these synonyms?
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How to check visibility of software keyboard in Android?
I need to do a very simple thing - find out if the software keyboard is shown. Is this possible in Android?
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Equivalent of jQuery .hide() to set visibility: hidden
In jQuery, there are .hide() and .show() methods which sets the CSS display: none setting.
Is there an equivalent function which would set the visibility: hidden setting?
I know I can use .css() ...
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Difference between Visibility.Collapsed and Visibility.Hidden
What are differences between Visibility.Collapsed and Visibility.Hidden in WPF?
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DataTrigger where value is NOT null?
I know that I can make a setter that checks to see if a value is NULL and do something. Example:
<TextBlock>
<TextBlock.Style>
<Style>
<Style.Triggers>
<...
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How do I invert BooleanToVisibilityConverter?
I'm using a BooleanToVisibilityConverter in WPF to bind the Visibility property of a control to a Boolean. This works fine, but I'd like one of the controls to hide if the boolean is true, and show if ...
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What is the difference between the hidden attribute (HTML5) and the display:none rule (CSS)?
HTML5 has a new global attribute, hidden, which can be used to hide content.
<article hidden>
<h2>Article #1</h2>
<p>Lorem ipsum ...</p>
</article>
CSS has ...
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How to make a DIV visible and invisible with JavaScript?
Can you do something like
function showDiv()
{
[DIV].visible = true;
//or something
}
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Hide/show element with a boolean
I tend to have a lot of these in my code
if(shouldElementBeVisible)
$element.show()
else
$element.hide()
Is there any more elegant way packaged with javascript, jquery, or underscore? ...
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Default visibility of class methods in PHP
I looked at the manual, but I can't seem to find the answer.
What is the default visibility in PHP for methods without a visibility declaration? Does PHP have a package visibility like in Java?
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How do I check if an element is really visible with JavaScript? [duplicate]
In JavaScript, how would you check if an element is actually visible?
I don't just mean checking the visibility and display attributes. I mean, checking that the element is not
visibility: hidden or ...
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Package protected alternative in Kotlin
In Java, we have the package protected (default) modifier for classes, which allows us to have many classes in a single package but exposes only a few and keeps the logic encapsulated.
With Kotlin ...
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Animate visibility modes, GONE and VISIBLE
So im trying to animate when i set the visibility of a linearlayout with other widgets, from GONE to VISIBLE and the opposite.Im using togglebuttons to show and hide. Here's an image to show what i ...
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Private constructor in Kotlin
In Java it's possible to hide a class' main constructor by making it private and then accessing it via a public static method inside that class:
public final class Foo {
/* Public static method */...
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Binding Visibility for DataGridColumn in WPF
How can I hide a column in a WPF DataGrid through a Binding?
This is what I did:
<DataGridTextColumn Header="Column header"
Binding="{Binding ColumnValue}"
...
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Determine whether UIView is visible to the user?
Is it possible to determine whether my UIView is visible to the user or not?
My View is added as a subview several times into a UITabBarController.
Each instance of this view has an NSTimer that ...
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What is DOM reflow?
I was reading about the difference between two CSS properties display:none and visibility:hidden and encountered the DOM reflow term.
The statement was
display: none causes a DOM reflow whereas ...
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android View with View.GONE still receives onTouch and onClick
This is confusing me:
As far as I have read, a view with setVisibility(View.GONE); should not receive any more touch- or click events.
My layout has two parts, which will be visible or gone so that ...
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Protected and private methods in Rails
Method visibility in Ruby (public, protected, and private methods) has been well explained in places like this blog post. But in Ruby on Rails it seems slightly different than it would be in a regular ...
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CSS: Is a hidden object clickable?
If the visibility property of the style of an HTML element is set to hidden, is it still clickable?
When the display property is set to none, the element is not even part of the DOM tree, so that is ...
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Why is there no sub-class visibility modifier in Java?
On more than one occasion I have found myself desiring a variable visibility that is not possible in Java. I wanted certain members to be visible within their own class and within any sub-classes, ...
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iOS equivalent for Android View.GONE visibility mode
I'm developing an app for iOS and I'm using the Storyboard with AutoLayout ON. One of my view controllers has a set of 4 buttons, and in certain circumstances i would like to make the first one ...
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jquery fade element does not show elements styled 'visibility: hidden'
I have a bunch of thumbnails which I am loading with a style of visibility: hidden; so that they all maintain their correct layouts. Once the page is fully loaded I have a jquery function that fades ...
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In WPF, how can I determine whether a control is visible to the user?
I'm displaying a very big tree with a lot of items in it. Each of these items shows information to the user through its associated UserControl control, and this information has to be updated every 250 ...
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UIView hide children views when out of bounds
I have a view, lets say 100x100. And it has set of uiviews as subviews: let say 30x30
If a subview has top-left coordinate: (90,90) - I expect to see only part of this subview. But I still see entire ...
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Is there any way to set a private/protected static property using reflection classes?
I am trying to perform a backup/restore function for static properties of classes. I can get a list of all of the static properties and their values using the reflection objects getStaticProperties() ...
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What is the CMake equivalent to "gcc -fvisibility=hidden" when controlling the exported symbol of a shared library?
I developed cross platform software in c++. As I know, Linux .so exported all the symbols by default, well through "gcc -fvisibility=hidden" I can set all the exported symbols as hidden, then set ...
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Why does jQuery show/hide use display:none instead of visibility:hidden?
display:none means that the element isn't rendered as part of the DOM, so it's not loaded until the display property changes to something else.
visibility:hidden loads the element, but does not show ...
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Why doesn't setVisibility work after a view is animated?
Why doesn't the textView become invisible?
Here is my layout xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:...