What is the difference between visibility:hidden and display:none?

Question

The CSS rules visibility:hidden and display:none both result in the element not being visible. Are these synonyms?

Answer 1

display:none; will neither display the element nor will it allot space for the element on the page whereas visibility:hidden; will not display the element on the page but will allot space on the page. We can access the element in DOM in both cases. To understand it in a better way please look at the following code: display:none vs visibility:hidden