Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 11/26/22 11:20

David Russell wrote:

[Beauregard wrote:]
>> ..for some degree of "perfect." Your menus are not accessible to
>> those visitors who do not have JavaScript available, or enabled.
>> Like the Googlebot.
>
> OK, I get that - although with the way it is set out, surely
> Googlebot will see it. Display:none surely does not prevent google
> from following the links?

Ok, I reexamined your links, and I see they are in the HTML, rather
than in JavaScript as I initially thought. I don't know if Google will
see text marked as "display: none" and may think you are spamming or
attempting to cover up false keywords. Maybe someone else has the answer.

Still doesn't allow the 10% or so who have JavaScript disabled to see it.

> I need to get a little more clarity on this...
>
>> For visitors who can see your menu, there is no indication for
>> which pages have been visited. Use CSS to change color for
>> visited links.
>
> This is also a good suggestion. Thanks, I'll look into this
>
> On the other hand, I don't ever want the menu to scroll.... Show
> should I best acomplish this? Especially if you don't like the
> "position: absolute" bit...
>
> Suggestions?
>
>> Some browsers do not respect absolute position, so you should
>> rethink the use of it.

Visitors with short browser windows may not be able to see the bottom
of your menu if you position it absolute, if it doesn't scroll.
There's really no need, as everyone is used to vertical scrolling.

--
-bts
-This space intentionally left blank.

[Back to original message]