onClick links and search engines

[styler99]

hi guys

i'm still learning about this web design stuff, so please bear with me!

the nav elements in my site are coded similar to this example:-

<td width="90" valign="top" bgcolour="#CCCCCC class="mainnav"
onClick="location.href='galleries.html';"
onMouseOver="this.style.backgroundColour='#FFFF00';
this.style.cursor='hand';"
onMOuseOut="this.style.backgroundColour='#CCCCCC;">print info</td>

dreamweaver doesn't see the links, but i didn't really think to check whether search engines will see them. they probably won't, will they?

if not, would it be easier to change them all to a simpler link, or change all the links in the above code to absolute urls? if i do the latter, won't it be trickier to test in dreamweaver?

hope that all makes sense! it doesn't really to me, which is probably what the problem is!

thanks
simon

[CaseyRyan]

I think you could just use your existing code and wrap the displayed text portion in a link going to the same place. Then search engines and dreamweaver should be able to see it.

Code would look like this:

<td width="90" valign="top" bgcolour="#CCCCCC class="mainnav" 
onClick="location.href='galleries.html';" 
onMouseOver="this.style.backgroundColour='#FFFF00'; 
this.style.cursor='hand';" 
onMOuseOut="this.style.backgroundColour='#CCCCCC;"><a href="galleries.html">print info</a></td>

You'll probably want to augment the style of the link so that it matches that of your mouseovers in the td.

-=casey=-