is this hidden text?

[fraudcop]

I found this line of code at the end of the meta tags. Is this hidden text penalized by search engines? Should I remove it?

<input type="hidden" value="widgets, free widgets" id=hidden1 name=hidden1>

thanks in advance

[a1call]

Hi fraudcop,

To me that looks like a hidden input of a html form.

Removing it could cause your form not to work.
If it is between <form ...> and </form>

check to see if any form submissions on the page yields an error when you remove it.

[fraudcop]

thanks

no, it is not inside a form tag , and after I removed it nothing happened.