为了详细说明大家的精彩回答，下面是Mozilla Fathom项目中使用的实现:

/**
 * Yield an element and each of its ancestors.
 */
export function *ancestors(element) {
    yield element;
    let parent;
    while ((parent = element.parentNode) !== null && parent.nodeType === parent.ELEMENT_NODE) {
        yield parent;
        element = parent;
    }
}

/**
 * Return whether an element is practically visible, considering things like 0
 * size or opacity, ``visibility: hidden`` and ``overflow: hidden``.
 *
 * Merely being scrolled off the page in either horizontally or vertically
 * doesn't count as invisible; the result of this function is meant to be
 * independent of viewport size.
 *
 * @throws {Error} The element (or perhaps one of its ancestors) is not in a
 *     window, so we can't find the `getComputedStyle()` routine to call. That
 *     routine is the source of most of the information we use, so you should
 *     pick a different strategy for non-window contexts.
 */
export function isVisible(fnodeOrElement) {
    // This could be 5x more efficient if https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/4122 happens.
    const element = toDomElement(fnodeOrElement);
    const elementWindow = windowForElement(element);
    const elementRect = element.getBoundingClientRect();
    const elementStyle = elementWindow.getComputedStyle(element);
    // Alternative to reading ``display: none`` due to Bug 1381071.
    if (elementRect.width === 0 && elementRect.height === 0 && elementStyle.overflow !== 'hidden') {
        return false;
    }
    if (elementStyle.visibility === 'hidden') {
        return false;
    }
    // Check if the element is irrevocably off-screen:
    if (elementRect.x + elementRect.width < 0 ||
        elementRect.y + elementRect.height < 0
    ) {
        return false;
    }
    for (const ancestor of ancestors(element)) {
        const isElement = ancestor === element;
        const style = isElement ? elementStyle : elementWindow.getComputedStyle(ancestor);
        if (style.opacity === '0') {
            return false;
        }
        if (style.display === 'contents') {
            // ``display: contents`` elements have no box themselves, but children are
            // still rendered.
            continue;
        }
        const rect = isElement ? elementRect : ancestor.getBoundingClientRect();
        if ((rect.width === 0 || rect.height === 0) && elementStyle.overflow === 'hidden') {
            // Zero-sized ancestors don’t make descendants hidden unless the descendant
            // has ``overflow: hidden``.
            return false;
        }
    }
    return true;
}

它检查每个父元素的不透明度、显示和矩形。

来自http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.1.js的jQuery代码有一个isHidden参数

var isHidden = function( elem, el ) {
    // isHidden might be called from jQuery#filter function;
    // in that case, element will be second argument
    elem = el || elem;
    return jQuery.css( elem, "display" ) === "none" || !jQuery.contains( elem.ownerDocument, elem );
};

因此，看起来有一个与所有者文档相关的额外检查

我想知道这是否真的适用于以下情况:

基于zIndex隐藏在其他元素后面的元素 完全透明的元素使它们不可见 位于屏幕外的元素(即左:-1000px) 具有可见性的元素:隐藏 有显示的元素:无 没有可见文本或子元素的元素 高度或宽度设置为0的元素

下面是我编写的代码，用于在几个类似的元素中找到唯一可见的元素，并返回其“class”属性的值，而不使用jQuery:

  // Build a NodeList:
  var nl = document.querySelectorAll('.myCssSelector');

  // convert it to array:
  var myArray = [];for(var i = nl.length; i--; myArray.unshift(nl[i]));

  // now find the visible (= with offsetWidth more than 0) item:
  for (i =0; i < myArray.length; i++){
    var curEl = myArray[i];
    if (curEl.offsetWidth !== 0){
      return curEl.getAttribute("class");
    }
  }

所以我找到了最可行的方法:

function visible(elm) {
  if(!elm.offsetHeight && !elm.offsetWidth) { return false; }
  if(getComputedStyle(elm).visibility === 'hidden') { return false; }
  return true;
}

这是基于以下事实:

显示:所有元素(即使是嵌套的元素)都没有宽度和高度。 可见性即使对于嵌套的元素也是隐藏的。

因此不需要测试offsetParent或在DOM树中循环来测试哪个父对象具有可见性:hidden。这应该可以在ie9中工作。

你可能会说，如果透明度:0和折叠的元素(有宽度但没有高度-反之亦然)也不是真正可见的。但话说回来，它们并不是隐藏的。

var visible = document.getElementById("yourelementID's");
 if (visible){
          // make events
 } else
 {
   //other events
 }

如果你对用户可见感兴趣:

function isVisible(elem) {
    if (!(elem instanceof Element)) throw Error('DomUtil: elem is not an element.');
    const style = getComputedStyle(elem);
    if (style.display === 'none') return false;
    if (style.visibility !== 'visible') return false;
    if (style.opacity < 0.1) return false;
    if (elem.offsetWidth + elem.offsetHeight + elem.getBoundingClientRect().height +
        elem.getBoundingClientRect().width === 0) {
        return false;
    }
    const elemCenter   = {
        x: elem.getBoundingClientRect().left + elem.offsetWidth / 2,
        y: elem.getBoundingClientRect().top + elem.offsetHeight / 2
    };
    if (elemCenter.x < 0) return false;
    if (elemCenter.x > (document.documentElement.clientWidth || window.innerWidth)) return false;
    if (elemCenter.y < 0) return false;
    if (elemCenter.y > (document.documentElement.clientHeight || window.innerHeight)) return false;
    let pointContainer = document.elementFromPoint(elemCenter.x, elemCenter.y);
    do {
        if (pointContainer === elem) return true;
    } while (pointContainer = pointContainer.parentNode);
    return false;
}

测试对象(使用摩卡术语):

describe.only('visibility', function () {
    let div, visible, notVisible, inViewport, leftOfViewport, rightOfViewport, aboveViewport,
        belowViewport, notDisplayed, zeroOpacity, zIndex1, zIndex2;
    before(() => {
        div = document.createElement('div');
        document.querySelector('body').appendChild(div);
        div.appendChild(visible = document.createElement('div'));
        visible.style       = 'border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px; display: inline-block;';
        visible.textContent = 'visible';
        div.appendChild(inViewport = visible.cloneNode(false));
        inViewport.textContent = 'inViewport';
        div.appendChild(notDisplayed = visible.cloneNode(false));
        notDisplayed.style.display = 'none';
        notDisplayed.textContent   = 'notDisplayed';
        div.appendChild(notVisible = visible.cloneNode(false));
        notVisible.style.visibility = 'hidden';
        notVisible.textContent      = 'notVisible';
        div.appendChild(leftOfViewport = visible.cloneNode(false));
        leftOfViewport.style.position = 'absolute';
        leftOfViewport.style.right = '100000px';
        leftOfViewport.textContent = 'leftOfViewport';
        div.appendChild(rightOfViewport = leftOfViewport.cloneNode(false));
        rightOfViewport.style.right       = '0';
        rightOfViewport.style.left       = '100000px';
        rightOfViewport.textContent = 'rightOfViewport';
        div.appendChild(aboveViewport = leftOfViewport.cloneNode(false));
        aboveViewport.style.right       = '0';
        aboveViewport.style.bottom       = '100000px';
        aboveViewport.textContent = 'aboveViewport';
        div.appendChild(belowViewport = leftOfViewport.cloneNode(false));
        belowViewport.style.right       = '0';
        belowViewport.style.top       = '100000px';
        belowViewport.textContent = 'belowViewport';
        div.appendChild(zeroOpacity = visible.cloneNode(false));
        zeroOpacity.textContent   = 'zeroOpacity';
        zeroOpacity.style.opacity = '0';
        div.appendChild(zIndex1 = visible.cloneNode(false));
        zIndex1.textContent = 'zIndex1';
        zIndex1.style.position = 'absolute';
        zIndex1.style.left = zIndex1.style.top = zIndex1.style.width = zIndex1.style.height = '100px';
        zIndex1.style.zIndex = '1';
        div.appendChild(zIndex2 = zIndex1.cloneNode(false));
        zIndex2.textContent = 'zIndex2';
        zIndex2.style.left = zIndex2.style.top = '90px';
        zIndex2.style.width = zIndex2.style.height = '120px';
        zIndex2.style.backgroundColor = 'red';
        zIndex2.style.zIndex = '2';
    });
    after(() => {
        div.parentNode.removeChild(div);
    });
    it('isVisible = true', () => {
        expect(isVisible(div)).to.be.true;
        expect(isVisible(visible)).to.be.true;
        expect(isVisible(inViewport)).to.be.true;
        expect(isVisible(zIndex2)).to.be.true;
    });
    it('isVisible = false', () => {
        expect(isVisible(notDisplayed)).to.be.false;
        expect(isVisible(notVisible)).to.be.false;
        expect(isVisible(document.createElement('div'))).to.be.false;
        expect(isVisible(zIndex1)).to.be.false;
        expect(isVisible(zeroOpacity)).to.be.false;
        expect(isVisible(leftOfViewport)).to.be.false;
        expect(isVisible(rightOfViewport)).to.be.false;
        expect(isVisible(aboveViewport)).to.be.false;
        expect(isVisible(belowViewport)).to.be.false;
    });
});