How to hide a DOM element using plain JavaScript

Find out how to hide and then show again elements in vanilla JavaScript

Published Nov 20, 2018

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How do you hide a DOM element using plain JavaScript?

Every element exposes a style property which you can use to alter the CSS styling properties.

You can set the display property to ‘none’ (like you would do in CSS, display: none;):

element.style.display = 'none'

To display it again, set it back to block or inline:

element.style.display = 'block'