- From: Markus Jonsson <carnaby@passagen.se>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:18:50 +0200 (CEST)
- To: www-style@w3.org
I'm not sure if this has been discussed before, but the display property has a minor problem. Often, {display: none} is used with dynamic
html, where an element could show or hide on demand. Hiding is easy, but once you need to reshow the element, you need to know the
appropriate display mode. There are many to choose from, and cannot safely be derived from the element name.
Since changing the display mode of an element is essentially different from just hiding it, wouldn't it be better if this was handled by
the visibility property? So {visibility: none} would work like {display: none} and take the element out of the flow, as opposed to
{visibility: hidden} which makes the element invisible while it remains in the flow.
Markus
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