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White on White Text
Author: Simon Collery
Date: Monday, 9th Jul 2001 20:07
Views: 3,320 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds)
Category: Internet Searching, Webmaster, eCommerce URL: http://www.freepint.com/go/b11108
Posted on behalf of a subscriber who wished to remain anonymous.
I need to know how you can tell if a website or web page has "white on white" text hidden in it. If I suspect there is hidden text, can I reveal it ?
I assume that this may sometimes be done to boost search hits undeservedly. Are there any other reasons this might be done? It doesn't sound as though there could be a genuine reason for it, does it ?
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White on White Text Posted on behalf of a subscriber who wished to remain anonymous.
I need to know how you can tell if a ...
Simon Collery
09/07/01 20:07
11108
Re: White on White Text Hi
If you suspect there is white-on-white text, then you should be able to drag your mouse over it (as if ...
William Hann
10/07/01 10:00
11124
Re: White on White Text This is 'spamdexing' and has been frowned upon by all the major search engines for at least 3 years. It ...
Lindsey Annison
09/07/01 22:51
11111
Re: White on White Text A possible legitimate/accidental use of the white on white…
I’ve considered using text the same colour as the background in my ...
Carl Cross
12/07/01 11:06
11196
Re: White on White Text Try using a single pixel transparent gif and then setting the IMG Width or Height properties to stretch it to ...
Chris
13/07/01 13:53
11228
Re: White on White Text I am not making accusations about this particular transaparent gif but in general be wary of transparent gifs not taken ...
Paul Taylor
13/07/01 14:23
11229
Re: White on White Text For anyone wanting to go down this route, most fully featured paint packages will be able to produce a transparent ...
Carl Cross
16/07/01 14:05
11256
Re: White on White Text Hi
Firstly Sorry ... what I meant by my previous e-mail was... copy the file and use on your server as ...
Chris
14/07/01 11:01
11241
Re: White on White Text You can always use non-breaking space characters as a text replacement, particularly in tables (I do this myself) - just ...
Matt Kilcast
12/07/01 11:21
11198
Oops Sorry, I didn't realise that the character would be interpreted on this board.
It's ampersand-nbsp-semicolon
Matt Kilcast
12/07/01 11:23
11199
Re: White on White Text Hi Carl
For spacers I use the code nbsp (with an ampersand before it and a semi-colon afterwards - can't put ...
William Hann
12/07/01 11:21
11197
Re: White on White Text William and Matt,
Thanks for the pointer. To be honest I’m pretty much an html novice, although I’m learning slowly ...
Carl Cross
12/07/01 11:37
11200
Re: White on White Text Hi
There is another reason why you may want to use "white on white" text and that is to hide ...
Arthur Weiss
12/07/01 10:00
11193
Re: White on White Text >You can find such hidden pages by looking at the Source code.
or by using the "tab" key - a little ...
andy williamson
13/07/01 01:20
11207
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