Creating hidden option tags?

Is this possible somehow?

[javahava]

hi there,

i'm trying to improve my keyword density on my homepage. at first glance it looks fine, but when i tested it across several analyzers, the density is quite low - the reason is that these analyzers, and i think se robots, count option tags in the drop-down menus as part of your site text. is that correct? is there a way to create "hidden" option tags (or so that se robots do not read them) so that my keyword density is not hurt by the options in my drop-down menus?

Thanks so much!

[tedster]

First, let me say I'm not so sure it's worth the trouble. Keyword density may be a handy measure when you're trying to reverse engineer an algorithm, but I don't know that today's search engines actually use such a "brute force" measure of relevance.

That said, you could create an external javascript file where you define a function that uses document.write to write the script for the entire menu. Then in the correct position in the HTML, you would just call that externally defined function inside a <script> element.