Scott O'Hara recently published "Inclusively Hidden," a nice walkthrough of the different ways to hide things on the web. Nothing is ever cut and dry when it comes to the web! What complicates this is that hidden begs the question: hidden for whom? Different answers to that have different solutions:
- Hidden for everyone?
display: none;orvisibility: hidden;or thehiddenattribute. (But watch out for thathiddenattribute, says Monica Dinculescu.) - Hidden visually, but present for assistive