Re: [WSG] Hiding styles message to certain browsers

[Nate Cook]

There's actually a good reason for this difference. (I can't find the 
reference right now, but I think it's in Zeldman's Designing With Web 
Standards.)  Some screenreaders (Jaws?) observe the display:none CSS 
rule, even though it's a visual thing -- therefore, the rule Jeremy 
cited won't be accessed in that context, whereas Russ' rule will.

Neither one is wrong, it's just important to know to whom you're 
supplying the message...

Nate

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On Mar 17, 2004, at 8:17 AM, Jeremy Flint wrote:

you can also use

.hide {
display: none
}
<div class="hide">Message to non-stylesheet browsers</div>

russ weakley wrote:

These guys use the following CSS rule:

.hide {
   height: 0;
   width: 0;
   overflow: hidden;
   position: absolute;
   }
HTML:
<div class="hide">
<p>
If you are reading this on a mobile device browser or a text browser, 
you
can safely <a href="#maincontent">
skip to the content</a>.
...



Russ
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