Will a search engine see content that has "display:none"?

[Mike Lewis]

I have a created page that includes code I downloaded from DynamicDrive. In brief, the aim is to create a tabbed dialogue.

To simplify, this is how it works:

- The contents of the page is divided between a number of DIVs, like so:

<div class="tabcontent">
Hello World
</div>

- In an external stylesheet, each of the DIVs has this rule:

.tabcontent
{
  display:none;
}

- Whe the user clicks on a link in the page, some JaveScript code is run which makes one of the DIVs visible.

My question is: Will a search engine see the contents of the DIVs?

I appreciate that a search engine can't execute the JavaScript. But will it look in the CSS file, see the "display:none", and therefore assume the content is invisible?

Thanks for any advice.

Mike


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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

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[ChrisHirst]

Yes it will "see" it.

Search engines read the HTML source code, the do not render the page, and they do not "examine" style sheets

Chris.

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[Mike Lewis]

Thanks, Chris. That was exactly what I needed to know.

Mike

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