This seems like it should be fairly easy - but I can't find the right selector for it
According to the docs (http://api.jquery.com/hidden-selector/ and http://api.jquery.com/visible-selector/)...
Elements can be considered hidden for several reasons:
An ancestor element is hidden, so the element is not shown on the page.
What I want to detect is "this element is visible, but is contained in a hidden parent". Ie, if I made the parent visible, this element would also be visible.
If this is something you'll commonly use, make your own selector :) Here's an example:
jQuery.expr[':'].hiddenByParent = function(a) {
return jQuery(a).is(':hidden') && jQuery(a).css('display') != 'none';
};
You can use it like this, test markup:
<div style="display: none" id="parent">
<div>
<div id="child">Test</div>
</div>
</div>
Examples of use:
$("div:hiddenByParent").length; // "2" (plain div + child match)
$("#child").is(":hiddenByParent"); // true
Alternatively, you can use the .filter()
function like this:
$('selector').filter(function() {
return $(this).is(':hidden') && $(this).css('display') != 'none';
}
jQuery has this all built-in nowdays
$("#child").closest(':hidden').length == 0
If it is a specific element that you are looking for then you could check it's display property
$('#element').css('display') != 'none';
If it wasn't a specific element then you could find the parent nodes that are hidden using :hidden then use a custom function to look for nodes of the type you want.
E.g.
$('parent-selector:hidden').find('node-selector').each(function(){
if($(this).css('display') != 'none') {
// do what you wanted
}
});
If you want a clean selector then i think that you're going to be out of luck as i don't think what you want is part of the CSS spec, so won't be there as a selector in jQuery.
I don't think just one selector would work, but
<script>
function parentHidden(id) {
return (!$(id).is(':hidden')) && $(id).parent().is(':hidden')));
}
</script>
should return what you need. If you need to check it's ancestors and not just it's parent, you could just replace the $(id).parent().is(':hidden')
part with a function that would recurse up the 'ancestor chain'.