[thelist] hidden form field anti-spam tool?

ben morrison morrison.ben at gmail.com
Wed Apr 18 08:19:17 CDT 2007


On 4/18/07, Joel D Canfield <joel at streamliine.com> wrote:
> > Potential downsides would be screen readers (depending on how it was
> > hidden)
>
> makes sense; what methods are there for hiding other than CSS's 'display:none' and what's the best option for considering screen readers?
>

Using a technique called offLeft

.offLeft {
position: absolute;
left: -999em;
top:-999em
}

http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ScreenreaderVisibility

But how that effects a spambot is another matter....

ben
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