:visible

visible selector

Description: Selects all elements that are visible.

jQuery(':visible')

version added: 1.0

Elements can be considered hidden for several reasons:

They have a CSS display value of none.
They are form elements with type="hidden".
Their width and height are explicitly set to 0.
An ancestor element is hidden, so the element is not shown on the page.

Elements with visibility: hidden or opacity: 0 are considered to be visible, since they still consume space in the layout. During animations that hide an element, the element is considered to be visible until the end of the animation. During animations to show an element, the element is considered to be visible at the start at the animation.

How :visible is calculated was changed in jQuery 1.3.2.

Examples

Make all visible divs turn yellow on click.

    $("div:visible").click(function () {
      $(this).css("background", "yellow");
    });
    $("button").click(function () {
      $("div:hidden").show("fast");
    });

The output of the code above will be:

Try it yourself

Full source:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script>  
  <script>
  $(document).ready(function(){
    $("div:visible").click(function () {
      $(this).css("background", "yellow");
    });
    $("button").click(function () {
      $("div:hidden").show("fast");
    });
  });
  </script>
  <style>
  div { width:50px; height:40px; margin:5px; border:3px outset green; float:left; }
  .starthidden { display:none; }
  </style>
</head>
<body>
  <button>Show hidden to see they don't change</button>
  <div></div>
  <div class="starthidden"></div>
  <div></div>
  <div></div>
  <div style="display:none;"></div>
</body>
</html>

Try it yourself

Was this information helpful?

Yes No

:visible

visible selector

jQuery(':visible')

Examples

Comments