Setting element visiblity with jQuery

Question

Using jQuery, is there some property on an element that I can set to true/false to control the visibility of that element?

Basically, I need something like this:

$(this).visible(someCondition);

toggle() won't work because I need to be able to tell it whether or not it will be shown.

show() and hide() work, but I have to do this:

if (someCondition) {
    $(this).show();
}
else {
    $(this).hide();
}

Which, as you can see, is not nearly as elegant as the solution I'm looking for.

Answer 1

toggle(someCondition) will work.
It takes an optional boolean parameter.

Answer 2

As SLak suggested, toggle() works. If you are using classes that have visibility states set (i.e., display: none or visibility:hidden), you can also use toggleClass().