Question about Types of Links

Will search engine spiders follow these types of links

[bhartzer]

I know spiders can follow this link:
<a href="www.domain.com/index.html">link</a>

But, will they treat these types of links the same (the ones listed in option value= below) as a typical a href link:

<FORM NAME="SelectURL" target="main">
<SELECT NAME="pickmain" onchange="GotoStats(this.form)">
<OPTION VALUE="http://www.domain.com/main.html">Main</OPTION>
<OPTION VALUE="http://www.domain.com/whatsnew.htm">What's New</OPTION>
</SELECT>
</FORM>

[lorax]

Nope - I don't believe they will. They will look at the FORM element for an "action" which is the correct way to use the form.

In the near future, we were told that Google will be able to follow 'any' URI within the code. But there wasn't an ETA on that ability. If you want the SEs to follow your links, better make them a bit more obvious.