hidden text and mistaken identity

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hidden text and mistaken identity

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soapystar

9:18 am on Mar 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

have a quite a bit of white text within blue tables but having placed the tags into external css worrying how google will handle that. Anyone triped a filter because it wasnt made clear what color the background and text are?

kaled

10:45 am on Mar 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

Provided the text is clear and readable when the CSS file is ignored and javascript is switched off, you should be ok.

Having said that, I would always avoid using text that is (nearly) the same color as the window background. This should ensure the filter is not tripped by a bug.

Kaled.

soapystar

11:14 am on Mar 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

I guess with no css then default will always be white background with black text.

kaled

6:41 pm on Mar 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

My HTML is rusty, but I'm pretty sure that you can specify a whole load of page attributes (including page and font colors) using the <BODY> tag.

When using CSS files, typically, no attributes are specified in the <BODY> tag, but they are still available.

Kaled.

rogerdp

8:27 pm on Mar 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

If you use CSS to add all of your colors and backgrounds, you're fine. (In other words, it is safe to assume a user's default colors are readable.)

SyntheticUpper

8:40 pm on Mar 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

Soapystar,

There are sites whose content deserves to be carved with dynamite in a steep rock face on Everest, who have been ditched by Google as if their content was only worthy of the phagiographic etchings of a dungbeetle .

So I wouldn't worry about your text colour.

I think hidden links are probably worst.

Funnily enough, in the last 'false alarm' update - you know, the one that didn't happen (on the basis of too little collateral damage I suppose) - my arch spammer disappeared.

But it's not down to his hidden text (which he can't quite throw off) - it's due to his lack of imagination I guess, and G's algo.

His site is certainly crap and empty enough to challenge me once again. So I assume he'll be back :)

<edit: this is worrying, I wanted to check the spelling of phagiography with a Google search - but there's not a single document. I hope they're not censoring Greek words as well as websites now >