hide(element) -> HTMLElement

Hides and returns element.

Examples

<div id="error-message"></div>

$('error-message').hide();
// -> HTMLElement (and hides div#error-message)

Backwards compatibility change

In previous versions of Prototype, you could pass an arbitrary number of elements to Element.toggle, Element.show, and Element.hide, for consistency, this is no longer possible in version 1.5!

You can however achieve a similar result by using Enumerables:

['content', 'navigation', 'footer'].each(Element.hide);
// -> ['content', 'navigation', 'footer'] 
// and hides #content, #navigation and #footer.

or even better:

$('content', 'navigation', 'footer').invoke('hide');
// -> [HTMLElement, HTMLElement, HTMLElement] (#content, #navigation and #footer)
// and hides #content, #navigation and #footer.