Document: hidden property
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The Document.hidden
read-only property returns a Boolean
value indicating if the page is considered hidden or not.
The Document.visibilityState
property provides an alternative way to determine whether the page is hidden.
Value
A Boolean value, true
if the page is hidden, and false
otherwise.
Examples
js
document.addEventListener("visibilitychange", () => {
console.log(document.hidden);
// Modify behavior…
});
Specifications
Specification |
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HTML # dom-document-hidden |
Browser compatibility
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- Full support
- Full support
- See implementation notes.
- Requires a vendor prefix or different name for use.
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