Request: event for custom views to know if they are visible/hidden about obsidian-api

[lishid]

You can easily do this by testing if your view's container is in the DOM - in Obsidian there is a helper function on an HTMLElement called isShown() and in a view you can do this by checking this.containerEl.isShown(). The function is directly mapped to check if it has an Element.offsetParent which is the browser's way of telling you if it's hooked up to be rendered.

If you need a way to detect when your element has been re-inserted/shown (so that you can re-start rendering again), we also have a helper function called onNodeInserted(callback). You'll want to make sure you only call this once in your view constructor so it does not get hooked up multiple times and cause multiple computations.

[ofalvai]

Thank you for the detailed explanation. isShown() works perfectly for my use case!