The usual way to show\hide block in html is switching it’s display property. But in case of performance of rendering, wouldn’t it be better to play with z-indexes?
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The usual way to show\hide block in html is switching it’s display property. But in case of performance of rendering, wouldn’t it be better to play with z-indexes?
Matter of preference really. Display:none removes the element completely, which I think it then is no longer a node in the DOM structure, thus saving memory. Someone correct me if I am wrong.
You could run into a problem with your implementation though if you have overflowing content.
http://jsfiddle.net/yeQfC/
But you could always just turn off overflow with
in your .content CSS definition
http://jsfiddle.net/gF3JC/