19648 2012-10-21 05:04:16 +0000 'display' of input[type=hidden] should always have computed value of 'none' 2013-03-21 22:43:40 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED FIXED http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#hidden-elements P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian ian kennyluck mike contributor oldest_to_newest 76827 0 contributor 2012-10-21 05:04:16 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/rendering.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#hidden-elements Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#hidden-elements Comment: 'display' of input[type=hidden] should always have computed value of 'none' Posted from: 124.193.152.238 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:15.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/15.0.1 76828 1 kennyluck 2012-10-21 05:18:07 +0000 When set with 'display: block !important;', from Tapir's testing: IE9, Chrome: <input type=hidden> not displayed but getComputedStyle gives 'block'. Firefox, Opera: <input type=hidden> not displayed but getComputedStyle gives 'none'. Firefox and Opera's behavior seems saner and should be listed along with <noscript> 76829 2 kennyluck 2012-10-21 05:21:09 +0000 See also: http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/1858 82316 3 ian 2013-01-29 23:05:39 +0000 And: http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/2078 84801 4 ian 2013-03-21 22:41:59 +0000 None of them render anything, so I agree that it makes more sense to do it like <noscript>. 84802 5 contributor 2013-03-21 22:43:40 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r7765. Check-in comment: <input type=hidden> doesn't ever render http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7764&to=7765