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bluedevil2k on Jan 24, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS

It’s kind of unusual to set visibility to hidden in CSS, it’s more something you’d code in jQuery, or handle in the React code itself.

ivanhoe on Jan 25, 2021 [–]

If you've never before seen this hack consider yourself privileged to been born in a better world, without IE6 :P

.clearfix:after {

  visibility: hidden;

  display: block;

  font-size: 0;

  content: " ";

  clear: both;

  height: 0;

}

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