jquery effects (show)

Question

Is there a way to just have something "show"? I know there's the effect called show, but I mean something with no animation. I know I could make the speed way fast or something. Or I could change the css from hidden or something. But does someone know of a built in method that does that? Same with "hide".

Answer 1

Just use show() with no parameters. Same with hide().

$('#item').show();
$('#item').hide();