Visibility

How it works

Set the visibility of elements with our visibility utilities. These utility classes do not modify the display value at all and do not affect layout – .invisible elements still take up space in the page.

Apply .visible or .invisible as needed.

<div class="visible">...</div>
<div class="invisible">...</div>

// Class
.visible {
  visibility: visible !important;
}
.invisible {
  visibility: hidden !important;
}

Visually hidden

Visually hide an element while still allowing it to be exposed to assistive technologies (such as screen readers) with .visually-hidden. Use .visually-hidden-focusable to visually hide an element by default, but to display it when it’s focused (e.g. by a keyboard-only user). .visually-hidden-focusable can also be applied to a container–thanks to :focus-within, the container will be displayed when any child element of the container receives focus.

<h2 class="visually-hidden">Title for screen readers</h2>
<a class="visually-hidden-focusable" href="#content">Skip to main content</a>
<div class="visually-hidden-focusable">A container with a <a href="#">focusable element</a>.</div>

Both visually-hidden and visually-hidden-focusable can also be used as mixins.

// Usage as a mixin

.visually-hidden-title {
  @include visually-hidden;
}

.skip-navigation {
  @include visually-hidden-focusable;
}

CSS

Sass utilities API

Visibility utilities are declared in our utilities API in scss/utilities/_index.scss. Learn how to use the utilities API.

"visibility": (
  property: visibility,
  class: null,
  values: (
    visible: visible,
    invisible: hidden,
  )
),