display: none vs [hidden]
Written byPhuoc Nguyen
Category
CSS
Created
18 Jul, 2020
HTML5 adds the
`hidden` attribute which has the same affect as the CSS `display: none` declaration.
An element will not be displayed if the `hidden` attribute is used regardless of its value:<div hidden>
<!-- This will disappear from the screen -->
</div>Both hides the content from the screen reader as well.
#Differences
- Both
`display: none`declaration and`hidden`attribute work in the same way. But the`hidden`attribute provides better semantic. `display: none`works in the old browsers, but`hidden`isn't supported natively in IE 10 and below.
To get around the problem, we can simply set
[hidden] {
display: none;
}It's included in modern CSS normalizing libraries such as Normalize.css.
Changing the value of
`display` property to something else (such as `display: flex`) will override the behavior of the `hidden` attribute.Popular libraries prevent it from being overridden by using
`!important`:[hidden] {
display: none !important;
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