How do I hide an HTML element before the page loads using jQuery

Question

I have some JQuery code that shows or hides a div.

$(\"div#extraControls\").show();   // OR .hide()

I initially want the div to be not visi

Answer 1

With CSS3 you can actually hide content until a page loads by taking advantage of the :only-child selector.

Here is a demonstration of how to do this. The basic idea is that CSS while loading will add a single node to the DOM while loading that node and its child nodes. Further, once a second child is added to the given parent node the :only-child selector rule is broken. We match against this selector and set display: none to hide the given node.

  
    
    
  

  
    

      

        
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