How to check if a div is visible state or not?

Question

I have tabs like this.

     //content

Trying to check it like

Answer 1

You can use .css() to get the value of "visibility":

 if( ! ( $("#singlechatpanel-1").css('visibility') === "hidden")){
 }

http://api.jquery.com/css/

Answer 2

You can use (':hidden') method to find if your div is visible or not.. Also its a good practice to cache a element if you are using it multiple times in your code..

$(".subpanel a").click(function() 
     {
        var chatterNickname = $(this).text();
        var $chatPanel = $("#singlechatpanel-1");

        if(!$chatPanel.is(':hidden'))
        {
            alert("Room 1 is filled.");
            $chatPanel.show();
            $("#singlechatpanel-1 #chatter_nickname").html("Chatting with: " + chatterNickname);
        }
});

Answer 3

if element is hide by jquery then use

if($("#elmentid").is(':hidden'))

Answer 4

Add your li to a class, and do $(".myclass").hide(); at the start to hide it instead of the visibility style attribute.

As far as I know, jquery uses the display style attribute to show/hide elements instead of visibility (may be wrong on that one, in either case the above is worth trying)

Answer 5

if (!$('#singlechatpanel-1').css('display') == 'none') {
   alert('visible');
}else{
   alert('hidden');
}

Answer 6

Check if it's visible.

$("#singlechatpanel-1").is(':visible');

Check if it's hidden.

$("#singlechatpanel-1").is(':hidden');