[thelist] I've found a great use for <span>

[aardvark]

> From: Daniel Fascia <danfascia at totalise.co.uk>
>
> >why not set the color of the (text within the) <h1> to transparent?
> >then the text won't display and you don't need a <span>...  if i had
>
> Because its bad practice and some search engines penalise you as they
> think that you are spamming the spiders with invisible keywords to
> pump up your page relevance.

a search engine won't see the transparent style in the CSS file...

as for bad practice, yes, it's a hack, but it's addressing a hack...


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