Initialize a Shiny tag as hidden

Create a Shiny tag that is invisible when the Shiny app starts. The tag can be made visible later with toggle() or show().

Usage

hidden(...)

Arguments

...

Shiny tag (or tagList or list of of tags) to make invisible

Value

The tag (or tags) that was given as an argument in a hidden state.

Note

shinyjs must be initialized with a call to useShinyjs() in the app's ui.

See also

useShinyjs(), toggle(), show(), hide()

Examples

if (interactive()) {
  library(shiny)
  shinyApp(
    ui = fluidPage(
      useShinyjs(),  # Set up shinyjs
      actionButton("btn", "Click me"),
      hidden(
        p(id = "element", "I was born invisible")
      )
    ),
    server = function(input, output) {
      observeEvent(input$btn, {
        show("element")
      })
    }
  )
}

library(shiny)
hidden(span(id = "a"), div(id = "b"))
#> [[1]]
#> <span id="a" class="shinyjs-hide"></span>
#> 
#> [[2]]
#> <div id="b" class="shinyjs-hide"></div>
#> 
hidden(tagList(span(id = "a"), div(id = "b")))
#> [[1]]
#> <span id="a" class="shinyjs-hide"></span>
#> 
#> [[2]]
#> <div id="b" class="shinyjs-hide"></div>
#> 
hidden(list(span(id = "a"), div(id = "b")))
#> [[1]]
#> <span id="a" class="shinyjs-hide"></span>
#> 
#> [[2]]
#> <div id="b" class="shinyjs-hide"></div>
#>