Question

Just wondering how to determine a jQuery statement like this

if( $("#test").css('display', 'block') == true) {
   return true;
}

Basically, I want to be able to determine IF an element has is currently being shown or hidden via the “display:block” attribute ?

Answer 1

Use

if( $("#test").css('display') == 'block') {

I’m fairly sure .css(), returning a calculated value, will always return a lower case result – the docs say nothing on this. To make totally sure, you could do a

if( $("#test").css('display').toLowerCase() == 'block') {

while you can rely on display giving reliable results, note that some CSS properties will not always show up the way they were defined. For example

a { color: red }

will turn out rgb(255,0,0); when queried using .css().