# Quarto conditional display > Learn to use Quarto's conditional display features (content-visible, content-hidden) to control what content appears in different output formats (HTML, PDF, Word, slides) from a single Markdown file. ---  **TL;DR** This article shows Quarto's `content-visible`/`content-hidden` conditional blocks (`::: {.content-visible when-format="html"}`), which let a single Markdown source render different content depending on the output format — useful for hiding wide tables from PDF, dropping lengthy code listings from slideshows, or adding a "Thank you / Questions?" closing slide only to the reveal.js output. Like me, you've definitely abandoned Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and friends and do everything in Markdown. Like me, you use the same markdown file to generate your documentation in `html`, `pdf`, `docx`, `pptx`, `revealjs`, ... as required, situation by situation. My personal use case is the following one: I've a single, sometimes big, `readme.md` file for the documentation of a tool I've created. In this document, I could display f.i. tables containing several columns that could be wide. This won't be a problem if I display the documentation as an HTML document, since we have a horizontal scrollbar in the browser to navigate from left to right. But when I generate a PDF, the table will *explode* the width of my PDF page and the result will be awful. Same idea: if my output is an HTML page, I can easily display a listing of a few dozen lines of my source code, for example, to illustrate a feature. On the other hand, if I display it as a slideshow, this will be counterproductive, since the slide will be huge and not very effective. And, if my goal is to generate a slideshow, the last part of my documentation will be a *Thank you for listening! Do you have any questions?* chapter. And that one should certainly not be part of the `docx` / `pdf` / `html` output. Just for the [`revealjs`](/blog/quarto-revealjs-tips) display (or [PowerPoint](/blog/quarto-powerpoint), if your audience insists). > **Docker image with Quarto:** > > If you don't have yet a Docker image with Quarto, read this article [Running Quarto Markdown in Docker](/blog/docker-quarto). ## content-visible when The syntax is very easy since we need to use the special tag `:::` to delimit an area in the file and then use a special filter called `content-visible`. Get in-depth syntax on the [official documentation](https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/conditional.html) Let's see in action; create a simple markdown file (`conditional-display.md`) on your disk and call quarto using `quarto render conditional-display.md --to xxx` and replace `xxx` by f.i. `docx`, `pdf`, `html`, `revealjs`, ... **conditional-display.md** ```markdown # Conditional display ::: {.content-visible when-format="html"} This paragraph will only appear in HTML. ::: ::: {.content-visible when-format="docx"} And this one only when the output format is Word ::: ::: {.content-visible when-format="revealjs"} I'm part of the slideshow ::: ``` When rendering the markdown sample here above to Word, we'll have the title and the paragraph `when-format="docx"`:  For `when-format="html"`, too, only the title and one paragraph:  For `when-format="revealjs"`, it's a little bit smarter since revealjs is an HTML document:  And since we don't have any paragraph only conditional ones, when converting to PDF, we just have the title.  The `when-format="xxx"` is thus working exactly as expected. > **`.content-hidden`:** > > The exact opposite can be done using `.content-hidden`, see [documentation](https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/conditional.html#content-hidden).