Hiding Extraneous Elements
Sometimes the easiest way to get rid of a problem element on your Web page that just doesn’t look right on the small screen is to hide it all together.
To hide elements:
1. | Type the selector that identifies the elements you want to hide.
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2. | Type {display: none} to completely remove them from the flow of the document.
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For more details about the display property, consult Displaying and Hiding Elements on page 190.
I have found the display property to be well supported by the handheld browsers that support CSS at all. I did have one problem with a browser that didn’t like contextual selectors: h1 {display: none} worked fine, #header h1 {display:none} did not.
Note that just because you hide an element doesn’t mean ...
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