visibility
The visibility
attribute lets you control the visibility of graphical elements. With a value of hidden
or collapse
the current graphics element is invisible.
Note: If the visibility
attribute is set to hidden
on a text element, then the text is invisible but still takes up space in text layout calculations.
Depending on the value of attribute pointer-events
, graphics elements which have their visibility
attribute set to hidden
still might receive events.
Note: As a presentation attribute, visibility
can be used as a CSS property. See the CSS visibility
property for more information.
Elements
You can use this attribute with the following SVG elements:
<a>
<audio>
<canvas>
<circle>
<ellipse>
<foreignObject>
<iframe>
<image>
<line>
<path>
<polygon>
<polyline>
<rect>
<text>
<textPath>
<tref>
<tspan>
<video>
Usage notes
Value | visible | hidden | collapse |
---|---|
Default value | visible |
Animatable | Yes |
visible
-
This value indicates that the element will be painted.
-
This value indicates that the element will not be painted. Though it is still part of the rendering tree, i.e. it may receive pointer events depending on the
pointer-events
attribute, may receive focus depending on thetabindex
attribute, contributes to bounding box calculations and clipping paths, and does affect text layout. collapse
-
This value is equal to
hidden
.
Examples
Example 1
<svg viewBox="0 0 220 120" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<rect
x="10"
y="10"
width="200"
height="100"
stroke="black"
stroke-width="5"
fill="transparent" />
<g stroke="seagreen" stroke-width="5" fill="skyblue">
<rect x="20" y="20" width="80" height="80" visibility="visible" />
<rect x="120" y="20" width="80" height="80" visibility="hidden" />
</g>
</svg>
Example 2
The following example toggles the CSS visibility
of the SVG image path.
HTML
<button id="nav-toggle-button">
<svg
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
width="24"
height="24"
viewBox="0 0 24 24"
class="button-icon">
<path d="M16.59 8.59L12 13.17 7.41 8.59 6 10l6 6 6-6z" />
<path
d="M12 8l-6 6 1.41 1.41L12 10.83l4.59 4.58L18 14z"
class="invisible" />
<path d="M0 0h24v24H0z" fill="none" />
</svg>
<span> click me </span>
</button>
CSS
svg {
display: inline !important;
}
span {
vertical-align: 50%;
}
button {
line-height: 1em;
}
.invisible {
visibility: hidden;
}
JavaScript
const button = document.querySelector("button");
button.addEventListener("click", (evt) => {
button
.querySelector("svg > path:nth-of-type(1)")
.classList.toggle("invisible");
button
.querySelector("svg > path:nth-of-type(2)")
.classList.toggle("invisible");
});
Result
Specifications
Specification |
---|
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2 # VisibilityControl |
Browser compatibility
BCD tables only load in the browser
See also
display
attributeCSS visibility