SELECTORS - :visible Selector

The ':visible Selector' is used to select the elements, which are not hidden.

i.e. There is a CSS property called 'display:none;'. If that is set the element would not be shown and is said to be hidden.

Let us simplify with the below example.

Example :

<html>
  	<head>
    	<title> My First Programme </title>
  	</head>

  	<body>
    	<h1> JQuery </h1>
    	
    	<div class = "newClass">
    		<p class = "para1"> First Paragraph </p>
    		<p class = "para2"> Second Paragraph </p>
    		<p style = "display:none;" class = "para3"> Third Paragraph </p>
    	</div>	
    	
    	<button> Click me </button>

      	<script src = "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.7.1/jquery.min.js"> </script>
	  
      	<script>
      
			$('button').click( function() { 
            	$('p:visible').text("These p elements are visible")
            });
            
      	</script>      
  	</body>
</html>

Output :

So, if you see the above code. We can see that there are three  elements,

<div class = "newClass">
	<p class = "para1"> First Paragraph </p>
	<p class = "para2"> Second Paragraph </p>
	<p style = "display:none;" class = "para3"> Third Paragraph </p>
</div>

And the third  element is hidden,

<p style = "display:none;" class = "para3"> Third Paragraph </p>

And the first two  elements are visible.

<p class = "para1"> First Paragraph </p>
<p class = "para2"> Second Paragraph </p>

And on button click, the contents of first and second element is changed.

And this happened with the '$('p:visible')' element selector.

$('button').click( function() {
	$('p:visible').text("These p elements are visible")
});

The moment the button is clicked, JQuery statement gets triggered.

$('p:visible').text("These p elements are visible")

And the contents of first two  elements are changed.

<p class = "para1"> First Paragraph </p>
<p class = "para2"> Second Paragraph </p>

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