--- title: Easily transition to and from display: none | daily.dev description: Animating elements transitioning to and from display:none is now straightforward with a few modern CSS features. The technique uses opacity and translate for... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/easily-transition-to-and-from-display-none-ewdr6klrk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Easily transition to and from display: none | daily.dev og:description: Animating elements transitioning to and from display:none is now straightforward with a few modern CSS features. The technique uses opacity and translate for... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/easily-transition-to-and-from-display-none-ewdr6klrk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/EWDr6klRK.png og:image:alt: Easily transition to and from display: none og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Easily transition to and from display: none **[Kevin Powell](https://daily.dev/sources/kevinpowell)** · 2 min read · 11 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Animating elements transitioning to and from display:none is now straightforward with a few modern CSS features. The technique uses opacity and translate for visual effects, the transition property extended to include display and overlay, the new transition-behavior: allow-discrete to enable transitioning normally non-animatable properties, and the @starting-style at-rule to define the initial state when an element first becomes visible. A popover example demonstrates fade-in/slide-down on open and fade-out/slide-down on close. Key gotcha: display changes (like display:grid) should only be set in the open state, while layout properties like grid-template-columns belong on the closed state. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@sahilatahar** · 2 upvotes > I call you the God of CSS. --- Tags: [#css](https://daily.dev/tags/css) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/easily-transition-to-and-from-display-none-ewdr6klrk) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Easily transition to and from display: none","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/easily-transition-to-and-from-display-none-ewdr6klrk","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/easily-transition-to-and-from-display-none-ewdr6klrk"},"datePublished":"2026-07-16T13:17:05.882Z","dateModified":"2026-07-16T13:17:30.025Z","description":"Animating elements transitioning to and from display:none is now straightforward with a few modern CSS features. 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