IsVisible=false element gets loaded in element tree

[johan-broekhof]

I'm building an app and I'm creating a collapse in a ListView using a Grid and the IsVisible property. I'm hiding these Grids by default but are still loaded in the element tree. This element along with it's children are present in the Live Visual Tree explorer. When I select an element in the explorer, the IsVisible property is false as you would expect but the IsLoaded property is true. These properties are both true when inspecting the children of the Grid.

Am I missing something? Is my understanding of the relation between IsVisible and IsLoaded wrong?

On a side note, the documentation says the following, so maybe that's where my confusion comes from:

The IsVisible property of each element determines whether the element should be part of the visual tree or not.

[johan-broekhof]

I marked this as resolved but since than I have deleted that comment because it was not resolved. Turned out I was watching the wrong element...

[bhavanesh2001]

I think the description here is accurate.

Gets or sets a value that determines whether this element will be visible on screen and take up space in layouts. This is a bindable property.

The description from here is nuanced and could be misinterpreted

The IsVisible property of each element determines whether the element should be part of the visual tree or not.

It implies that IsVisible = false might remove the element from the visual tree, which is not accurate.

I raised an issue for the same.

[johan-broekhof]

@bhavanesh2001 thanks for the links and pointing out the differences. I agree that the documentation in the first link you have provided is accurate. The second link you posted, to which I also refered in my initial post, is misleading in my opinion.

Thank you for creating the issue!