[Javascript] dynamically hide an element

[paul at juniperwebcraft.com (Paul Novitski)]

At 11/28/2006 04:37 PM, Stephan Wehner wrote:
>Use
>
>  document.getElementById("ed1").style.visibility="none";
>
>instead of
>
>  document.getElementById("ed1").style.visibility="hidden";


No, "hidden" is correct for visibility.  Perhaps you're thinking of 
display: none.
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CSS 2.1 Specification
11.2 Visibility: the 'visibility' property
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visufx.html#visibility

'visibility'
     Value:      visible | hidden | collapse | inherit
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MSDN DHTML Reference
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/properties/visibility.asp
visibility Attribute | visibility Property

Possible Values

     sVisibility String that specifies or receives one of the following values.
     inherit     Default. Object inherits the visibility of the next 
parent object.
     visible     Object is visible.
     hidden      Object is hidden.
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Regards,
Paul