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.

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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
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Browser compatibility

See also