html elements visible and not

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Name: liliyaw
Date: July 5, 2006 at 14:04:11 Pacific
Subject: html elements visible and not
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Comment:

Can anyone tell me if there is a way to mask/unmask or set visible/not elements in a web page like select options and input text?
Thanks in advance.

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Response Number 1

Name: Michael J (by mjdamato)
Date: July 5, 2006 at 14:23:44 Pacific
Subject: html elements visible and not

Reply: (edit)

Use the "display" style property.
Inline you would use it like this: style="display:none;"
However since I am assuming you want this to be dynamic, you would need to do it in JavaScript like this:
element.style.display = "none";
or
element.style.display = "block";
There are many more values that you can use for that property as well. Here is more info on the display property: http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_class_display.asp
Just be carefull that you test in various browsers as some browsers handle differnt values differently.
Michael J

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Response Number 2

Name: smbotans
Date: July 5, 2006 at 20:13:37 Pacific
Subject: html elements visible and not

Reply: (edit)

be very careful about 'hiding' text on a page as search engine spiders may not like it penalize your site's ranking
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Response Number 3

Name: liliyaw
Date: July 19, 2006 at 13:30:32 Pacific
Subject: html elements visible and not

Reply: (edit)

Thanks a lot! I got it...

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