Hiding an element doesn't necessarily cause a repaint

[barnabwhy]

If you hide all elements in the view, it doesn't seem to repaint. This leaves a ghost of the element on the screen until something else triggers a repaint.

I am having to use a workaround of having an image with opacity: 0.0000000001; (so that it rounds to 0 when rendered) in view at all times so that hiding elements is guaranteed to work.