Tab Menu With Hidden text - Search Engine Friendly?

Don't want to use a technique that would hurt me in the serps

[Aberdeen]

I want to use a tab menu where the text appears below the menu by using javascript to change the class from posthidden (where the text is hidden) to postshow which shows the text.

By using display:none of some paragraph tags, will this get me into trouble with the search engines?

Am I right in thinking that google does not read style sheets.

Anybody know?

[collymellon]

I'm not sure on this but as a thought..

If your text is text (not an image) google should still read it no matter what the style sheet says. Text will be hidden in browser but still sat nested in the code which google wants..

If someone knows about this please let me know.

[tedster]

Using display:none is a common approach to a dynamic menu and in itself this technique does not make any trouble with the search engines - at least not in my experience.

If you try to exploit display:none to place hidden links that never show up for the user, then you may run into trouble. But not if you just play it straight.

[Aberdeen]

I am playing it straight and thanks for your help.