Hide or show elements in HTML using display property

Difficulty Level : Easy
Last Updated : 28 Jul, 2021

Style display property is used to hide and show the content of HTML DOM by accessing the DOM element using JavaScript/jQuery.

To hide an element, set the style display property to “none”.

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document.getElementById("element").style.display = "none";

To show an element, set the style display property to “block”.

document.getElementById("element").style.display = "block";

Steps to show the working of style display property:

Create some div and assign them an id or class and then add styling to it.
<div class="circle" id="circle"></div>
<div class="rounded" id="rounded"></div>
<div class="square" id="square"></div>

Width and height will set the width and height of the content, border-radius 0% will make a square border, 50% will make a circle and 25% will make a rounded shape and float will make the divs get positioned, margin-right will make them separated with a space at right.

<style type="text/css">
       .circle {
           width: 130px;
           height: 130px;
           border-radius: 50%;
           float: left;
           margin-right: 50px;
       }
         
       .rounded {
           width: 130px;
           height: 130px;
           border-radius: 25%;
           float: left;
           margin-right: 50px;
       }
         
       .square {
           width: 130px;
           height: 130px;
           border-radius: 0%;
           float: left;
           margin-right: 50px;
       }

Background-color will set the background color of the div.

#circle {
           background-color: #196F3D;
       }
         
#rounded {
           background-color: #5DADE2;
       }
         
#square {
           background-color: #58D68D;
       }

The document.getElementById will select the div with given id.
<script type="text/javascript">
document.getElementById("circle").onclick = function()
The style.display = "none" will make it disappear when clicked on div.
.style.display = "none";

Implementation of style.display property:

<html>
<head>
  
    <title>Javascript</title>
  
    <style type="text/css">
        .circle {
            width: 130px;
            height: 130px;
            border-radius: 50%;
            float: left;
            margin-right: 50px;
        }
          
        .rounded {
            width: 130px;
            height: 130px;
            border-radius: 25%;
            float: left;
            margin-right: 50px;
        }
          
        .square {
            width: 130px;
            height: 130px;
            border-radius: 0%;
            float: left;
            margin-right: 50px;
        }
          
        #circle {
            background-color: #196F3D;
        }
          
        #rounded {
            background-color: #5DADE2;
        }
          
        #square {
            background-color: #58D68D;
        }
    </style>
  
</head>
  
<body>
  
    <div class="circle" id="circle"></div>
  
    <div class="rounded" id="rounded"></div>
  
    <div class="square" id="square"></div>
  
    <script type="text/javascript">
        document.getElementById("circle").onclick = function() {
  
            document.getElementById("circle").style.display = "none";
  
        }
  
        document.getElementById("rounded").onclick = function() {
  
            document.getElementById("rounded").style.display = "none";
  
        }
  
        document.getElementById("square").onclick = function() {
  
            document.getElementById("square").style.display = "none";
  
        }
    </script>
  
</body>
  
</html>

Output:
Output of the above code is:

Square shape will get disappear after clicking on it:

Similarly Rounded shape will get disappear after clicking on it:

Similarly, Circle shape will get disappear after clicking on it.

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