RE: [WSG] Does display:none work on img replacements?

2004-09-08 Thread Patrick Lauke
display:none has been discourages early on in the whole image
replacement discussion, as it completely hides the element
from screen readers.

Patrick

 -Original Message-
 From: Lorenzo Gabba @ Quirk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: 08 September 2004 14:52
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 Subject: [WSG] Does display:none work on img replacements?
 
 
 | CSS |
 
 h1
 {
 background: url(widget-image.gif) no-repeat;
 }
 
 h1 span
 {
 display: none;
 }
 
 | HTML |
 
 h1spanBuy widgets/span/h1
 
 | Question |
 
 Is this an acceptable alternative to #5 on:
 http://www.evolt.org/article/Ten_CSS_tricks_you_may_not_know/1
7/60369/index.html
... or will search engines ignore the contents of the span tag?
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Re: [WSG] Does display:none work on img replacements?

2004-09-08 Thread Lorenzo Gabba @ Quirk
ah... just read http://tantek.com/log/2004/09.html#d07t1434

nevermind. =P

On Wednesday 08 September 2004 15:51, Lorenzo Gabba @ Quirk wrote:
 | Question |

 Is this an acceptable alternative to #5 on:
 http://www.evolt.org/article/Ten_CSS_tricks_you_may_not_know/17/60369/index
.html ... or will search engines ignore the contents of the span tag?
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