A display device can include a display panel having a plurality of sub pixels, each of the sub pixels including a switching transistor, a driving transistor, a sensing transistor, a storage capacitor, and a light emitting element; and a detector configured to sense a voltage difference between a first electrode of the sensing transistor and a second electrode of the sensing transistor for determining that an anode and a cathode of the light emitting element are shorted, in which a gate electrode of the switching transistor and a gate electrode of the sensing transistor are connected to a same gate line.