Anyone know if the text on a page is searchable if you're using the CSS trick display: none; to temporarily hide it?

you mean like you do on the front page here? Hmm not sure <img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

of couse it would be, as the text is still there. When doing so for spidering, it's a good way to be removed from google

I'm not aware that we're doing it here. I've never really used it before.<br /><br />I'm using it for a dynamic menu on a site - to collapse and expand subcategories. But I was curious if the text in the menu would be spidered. <img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /><br /><br />Thanks!

well your kinda using it here.. when ya click on the THreadsdev Logo you get taken to http://forums.nonleague.com/ and when ya click on the devswoosh it takes ya to http://www.praisecafe.org/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi<br /><br />and then on the IIP entrance hidden amongst the code is <br /><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/cssgraphics/defaults/clearlogo.gif" class="devlogo" width="240" height="75" usemap="#clearlogobc169744" border="0" alt="ThreadsDev.com" /><br /><map name="clearlogobc169744" id="clearlogobc169744"><br /><area shape="rect" coords="209,1,232,73" href="http://www.ubbcentral.com/links/index.php3?count=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.threadsaddons.com" target="_blank" alt="ThreadsDev" /><br /><area shape="rect" coords="182,2,208,73" href="http://www.crucedecaminos.com" target="_blank" alt="CruceDeCaminos" /><br /><area shape="rect" coords="157,1,181,73" href="http://www.ubbcentral.com/links/index.php3?count=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.joshuapettit.com" target="_blank" alt="" /><br /><area shape="rect" coords="135,2,156,72" href="http://ffff.niden.net" target="_blank" alt="FFFF" /><br /><area shape="rect" coords="116,1,135,73" href="http://forums.nonleague.com" target="_blank" alt="NonLeague" /><br /><area shape="rect" coords="92,2,115,73" href="http://www.rollspel.nu" target="_blank" alt="Rollspel.nu" /><br /><area shape="rect" coords="68,2,91,73" href="http://www.michiganjeepers.com" target="_blank" alt="MichiganJeepers" /><br /><area shape="rect" coords="45,2,67,73" href="http://www.reeftalk.com" alt="Reeftalk" target="_blank" /><br /><area shape="rect" coords="22,2,44,73" href="http://www.mousefunfacts.com" alt="MouseFunFacts.com" target="_blank" /><br /><area shape="rect" coords="0,2,22,74" href="http://www.dalantech.com/boards" alt="Dalantech" target="_blank" /></map><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Oh, nothing hidden with that in CSS though - each letter of ThreadsDev is a link to a staff site. Just a regular image link (it's an image map).

Josh, I believe what you're doing shouldn't be a problem. It's the people who have 500 links in a transparent div for the sole purpose of being spidered

Look in the browser source view, it's still there, just not visible to the main view.