# The CSS properties display and visibilityĭisplay: none will cause the element to completely vanish, it won't take any space and it won't be animatable. content is not rendered and not exposed in the accessibility tree, they have different behaviors. While each of these techniques has the same end result, i.e. The three types of 'hidden' produce the following matrix: visibility stateĬompletely hiding elements can be done in 3 ways: Visually hidden The element is not rendered on screen, but exposed in the accessibility tree, and still accessible to keyboard navigation. Semantically hidden The element is rendered on screen, but not exposed in the accessibility tree, and still accessible to keyboard navigation. For disambiguation we'll use the following terms: Completely hidden The element is not rendered on screen, not exposed in the accessibility tree, not accessible to keyboard navigation. Systems like screen readers and braille displays rely on a document's representation in the accessibility tree. However, the screen is not the only output mechanism we may need to hide content from. When we say an element is hidden, we usually mean it is not visible. This document explains the various ways of hiding things and the implications that come with that.

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