Hidden Text Issue

Need to hide answers to quiz

[funandgames]

Wasn't sure where to post this. This is quite a predicament. Our websites contain quizzes. We need to initially hide the quiz answers from view. People have suggested putting the answers on another page, but that means more overhead, but the real issue is that all the useful content is then removed from the main quiz page, making it very search engine unfriendly.

Right now, we use CSS and place another layer on top of the answers. No small fonts or hidden text is used. Could this be a problem with Google and spamming? We really don't see any other way. Obviously, in our case, we are not trying to spam the search engines, but need to hide the answers until the quiz is filled out and the 'submit' button pressed.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[londrum]

you could try and display it with javascript
there are lots of 'show hidden div' scripts around, just do a search for that phrase in google.

but, of course, anyone with javascript turned off will see them straight away.
one way to get around that is to hide the div in css. and then overwrite a new style into the css using javascript.
so if javascript is turned off, it will revert to what it says in the css = invisible.

[funandgames]

Someone had mentioned that using 'hidden' in CSS is easier to find than overlapping as a search engine spider can easily search for the word 'hidden' in the CSS file. There are even rumors that Google might start to spider CSS files.