CSS content-visibility

The CSS language is filled with small gaps that are irritating to navigate. Between CSS properties to cover a container and its contents, there’s nonetheless room for enchancment. visibility: hidden retains top and width integrity whereas show: none on a container hides all the things. You should utilize .container > * to cover all contents of a container, however what if there was a greater method?

There’s a higher strategy to cover the contents of a component whereas respecting the container’s border and dimensions. That higher method is utilizing the content-visibility property:

.my-container.contents-loading {
  content-visibility: hidden;
}

A demo of such performance:

See the Pen Untitled by David Walsh (@darkwing) on CodePen.

Avoiding a .container > * selector by utilizing content-visibility: hidden is a lot nicer from a upkeep perspective!