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# visibleRect

The portion of the view that isn’t clipped by its superviews.

```
var visibleRect: NSRect { get }
```

## Discussion

Visibility, as reflected by this property, doesn’t account for whether other view or window objects overlap the current view or whether the current view is installed in a window at all. This value of this property is `NSZeroRect` if the current view is effectively hidden.

During a printing operation the visible rectangle is further clipped to the page being imaged.

[`clipsToBounds`](/documentation/AppKit/NSView/clipsToBounds) affects this property.

## See Also

[`isHidden`](/documentation/AppKit/NSView/isHidden)

A Boolean value indicating whether the view is hidden.

[`documentVisibleRect`](/documentation/AppKit/NSScrollView/documentVisibleRect)

The portion of the document view, in its own coordinate system, visible through the scroll view’s content view.

[`documentVisibleRect`](/documentation/AppKit/NSClipView/documentVisibleRect)

The exposed rectangle of the clip view’s document view, in the document view’s own coordinate system.

[`isVisible`](/documentation/AppKit/NSWindow/isVisible)

A Boolean value that indicates whether the window is visible onscreen (even when it’s obscured by other windows).


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