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JavaScript jQuery Basics Working with jQuery Collections Working with jQuery-Specific Selectors

Ben Williams
Ben Williams
11,520 Points
Posted by Ben Williams
Ben Williams
11,520 Points

How to select the <li> without the <div> using the :hidden pseudo selector

How to select the <li> without the <div> using the :hidden pseudo selector

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <title>Document</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" title="no title" charset="utf-8">
</head>
<body>
    <h2>Star Trek Characters</h2>

    <ul class="character-list">
        <li>Captain Jean Luc Picard</li>
        <li>Data</li>
        <li>Worf</li>
        <li>Dr. Crusher</li>
    </ul>

    <div>I am supposed to stay hidden!</div>    

    <script
    src="jquery-3.2.1.min.js"></script>
    <script src="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
app.js 
const $li = $(':hidden');
$li.show();

1 Answer

Dimitar Dimitrov
Dimitar Dimitrov
11,800 Points
Dimitar Dimitrov
Dimitar Dimitrov
11,800 Points

You need to select only the <li> (list elements) that are hidden. The Jquery selector for <li> is 

$('li')

and you use :hidden pseudo selector on that element like that:

$('li:hidden')

after that you just need to use show() method to show the elements.

$('li:hidden').show();