Comments on: Visibility vs Display in CSS

By: M Poze

M Poze — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:15:11 +0000

Thanks a lot!

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:41:48 +0000

You usually don’t want or need to hide lots of content though. In some cases you do, but it shouldn’t just be a list of keywords and phrases.

By: Descuentos funcionarios

Descuentos funcionarios — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:09:36 +0000

Good info about visibility and display. I use them normally in my designs. The unique problem is that we can have problems with search engine robots if you put a big content in it like a big list of keywords os phrases.

Best regards.

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Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:37:45 +0000

[...] the surface both the CSS visibility and display properties seem to do the same thing, hide or show an element on the page. Beneath the surface they work [...]

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:31:40 +0000

Good question. I’m not 100% sure, but I think using visibility would mean the content is accessible. With display: none I’m thinking that keeps the content from being read by screen readers. This is the part I’m not really sure about.

If you don’t mind waiting I’m planning at least one and hopefully more posts on accessibility in the not too distant future, probably sometime in September.

By: Kelly Johnson

Kelly Johnson — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:33:05 +0000

What about the accessibility aspects of one versus the other?

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:41:22 +0000

This post wasn’t about the seo perspective, but I can give you an easy answer. If your reason for hiding the bar are because it gives your visitors a better experience then it’s ok to hide it as long as you give your visitors a mechanism to then unhide it.

If your reason for hiding the bar is to manipulate search results then don’t do it as it probably goes against search engine policies.

By: Dominik Jurkitsch

Dominik Jurkitsch — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:15:48 +0000

From SEO-Perspective I’m still not sure if I really should use “visibility:hidden” to hide my AddToAny-Bar. But thank you for this Information anyway!

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How Well Do You Understand CSS Positioning? | Van SEO Design — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:30:35 +0000

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By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 04:58:09 +0000

Thanks huguangjian.