How to Hide HTML Elements Without Affecting Page Layout?

Preserving Page Layout while Hiding Elements

When aiming to conceal HTML elements without affecting the visual layout, the use of visibility: hidden can lead to undesired results. While hiding the element from view, it continues to occupy the same space on the page.

Disabling Display

To overcome this challenge, employing the display property is recommended. By setting the display of the element to none, it effectively disappears from the visual representation, as though it has been removed from the DOM entirely.

Consider the following example:

<div>
<p>Initially, the div element is displayed normally. To hide it:</p>
<pre class="brush:php;toolbar:false">#element {
  display: none;
}

When display: none is applied, the element becomes visually absent, freeing up the space it previously occupied. To restore the element's visibility:

#element {
  display: block;  
}

Benefits of Using display: none

• Preserves the layout of the page
• Maintains the element's position in the HTML code
• Allows the element to be easily displayed again by setting display: block