Disappearing Screen Options and Help

I ran into this problem myself, debugged it, and would like to offer a suggestion to save everyone a lot of grief.

The root problem is that WordPress has a class of ‘hidden’ on the #screen-options-wrap and #contextual-help-wrap divs. This is fine. But when you click on the tab to open either, the js does not remove the ‘hidden’ class. It just applies a ‘display:block’ to the style of the div.

All this is fine – except that every other plugin and theme out there creates their own class called ‘hidden’ – so when someone changes a theme or adds a plugin, suddenly they hit this problem.

It would be cleaner if either:
– the ‘hidden’ class was removed when the div was meant to be displayed.

or

– just use a different class name, one unique to WordPress. ‘wp-hidden’ would be easy.