A display element capable of being driven with a low voltage through a simple member arrangement in which the time for switching the screen is shortened. The display element has an electrolytic layer, containing silver or a compound containing silver in the chemical structure, between opposed electrodes, and performs driving operation of the opposed electrodes such that dissolution-deposition of silver takes place. The display element is characterized in that the electrolytic layer substantially contains no iodine ion and at least two pixels having different degree of blackening are subjected to whitening reset driving simultaneously in the driving operation.