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Scott Johnson wrote:

> Is the difference between visibility and display the maintaining of the
> element flow?

Yes.

> Will Display take the element out of the flow where as visibility will
> keep it (sort of like a place holder so layout does not suffer)?

Loosely speaking, `display: none' renders the element as if it was not 
there; `visibility: hidden' does not paint the element, but reserves its box 
area.

<http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visuren.html>

This question should have been asked in 
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets, if necessary after reading the 
pertinent sections of the CSS 2.1 Specification.


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