What is the difference between *ngIf and [hidden]?

Question

Say I check it against and expression, then aren\'t these two same ?

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Answer 1

*ngIf will include and remove the element from the DOM if set to true and false respectively. [hidden] in angular2 is the equivalent of ngshow and nghide that we had in AngularJS.It just shows and hides the element by add display:none and display:block.