[BNM] Css hidden p tags and revealing stuff

[Joe Aliferis]

what about

display: hidden

display: block

joe



Antony Jones wrote:
>>> Now wondering if a bit of javascript which unhides p tags with a
> certain class.
> 
> p {
>     visibility:hidden;
> }
> 
> p.yourclass {
> 	visibility: visibile;
> }
> 
> ('visible' could be wrong... I can't remember, I try to avoid html+css
> nowadays :P)
> 
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org [mailto:bnmlist-
>> bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Jason Bailey
>> Sent: 06 November 2007 17:39
>> To: brighton new media
>> Subject: [BNM] Css hidden p tags and revealing stuff
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm working with some forms that contain explantory/help text near it
>> which
>> is mostly in <p> or <ul><li> tags. Some text is also in P and UL which
> is
>> not help and explanatory. and this is the reason for my question.
>>
>> A suggestion was made (by me -oh dear!) that we should hide the
>> help/explanatory text in the test system in order that the people who
> are
>> requesting changes can start from scratch and re-write the help text
> and
>> not see the existing stuff.
>>
>> So I added the following to the CSS
>> p{
>>    visibility:hidden;
>> }
>>
>> li{
>>    visibility:hidden;
>> }
>>
>> This has worked well and perhaps a little to well as some of the text
> that
>> is in p tags but not all still needs to be seen. The forms look fine
> and
>> purely for documentation this is almost right.
>>
>> So my question is:
>> what's the best method of styling to slowly (a p tag here and a UL/LI
>> there) introduce text that is currently hidden? The above CSS is a
> global
>> change to all p and li tags which is mostly correct. Can I override
> this
>> in
>> a few places with a local p tag or something or a specific p class? It
>> would be more manual changes to go and hide all text to be hidden but
> not
>> sure if I can reverse this and show all text that needs to be seen.
>>
>> I hope this makes sense but the point I'm trying to make is that, if
> it's
>> possible, it's less work to turn on a few bits rather than turn off
> (hide)
>> Now wondering if a bit of javascript which unhides p tags with a
> certain
>> class.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Jason
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