Document: hidden property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The Document.hidden read-only property returns a Boolean value indicating if the page is considered hidden or not.

The Document.visibilityState property provides an alternative way to determine whether the page is hidden.

Value

A Boolean value, true if the page is hidden, and false otherwise.

Examples

js

document.addEventListener("visibilitychange", () => {
  console.log(document.hidden);
  // Modify behavior…
});

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard # dom-document-hidden

Browser compatibility

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See also

Document.visibilityState