Re: [css3-animations] display:none, visibility:hidden and animations

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:03 AM, divya manian <divya.manian@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 4, 2011, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>> Precisely.  JS animations work over specified values, but the
>> principle is the same.  You know what the values are, and in the case
>> of the display:none element itself, you're not fighting against
>> performance optimizations either.
>
> What is the use case for animating elements that are display none? One I can
> think of would be to somehow use CSS animations to update (generated)
> content on a page and then by setting display to none, you would be
> disrupting the update of the content. But it seems like a terrible hack to
> do this in any case.

For example, running an animation on some content within a <details>
that stays consistent when you open/close the element.

Unfortunately, that's probably the "subtree" case that's harder to deal with.

~TJ