Is there a unified way to know if a node is visible or not?
- by zneak
Hello guys,
I'd like to be able to know if a node is visible and rendered on screen. As far as I know, there are at least 3 standard and easy ways of making HTML nodes not visible:
Setting opacity: 0;
Setting display: none;
Setting visibility: hidden.
I could check for just these three, but I'm afraid people can get creative when it comes to ways of hiding contents:
Sending the element offscreen using negative margins;
Using a width or height of 0 and hiding overflow;
many more I trust people to have developed.
So I was wondering if there is a standard way of determining if a node is rendered to the screen. I'm pretty sure all major browsers determine it for themselves to accelerate drawing, so maybe it's somehow exposed.
