CSS: how to hide a label element with accessibility in mind

CSS: how to hide a label element with accessibility in mind

Hiding a label element can be useful in various situations, for example when you want to create a cleaner user interface or when you want to present information only to certain users. However, it is important that this is done in an accessible way so that users with disabilities do not lose access to the information contained in this element.

Hiding a label element can be useful in various situations, for example when you want to create a cleaner user interface or when you want to present information only to certain users. However, it is important that this is done in an accessible way so that users with disabilities do not lose access to the information contained in this element.

To hide a label element in an accessible way with CSS, you can use the CSS property clip, which allows you to clip an element to a specified rectangle. This way, the element will still be present on the page, but will be hidden from visitors.

To do this, you can use the following CSS code:


  label {
      position: absolute;
      clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);
      border: 0;
      height: 1px;
      width: 1px;
      overflow: hidden;
  }

This way, the label element will be present on the page, but hidden from visitors. However, users with disabilities will continue to be able to access the information contained in the label through voice assistants or other aids. Furthermore, it is important to provide a textual alternative to the label element, for example via an aria-label attribute, so that visually impaired users can still access the information contained in the label.