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makapangyarihan
13-07-2003, 15:14/03:14PM
hello,

we have developed a way to create submenu navigation bars using javascript only as an event trigger (onmouseover=....) tom make the sub-menus appear and disappear. We have retained the ordinary html syntax for our href links. i want to know if it would be "crawlable" by Search Engines or not.

here is an example of the syntax of our sub-navigation menu which appears only when you mouseover it's parent/global menu item.

<a class="nav" style="width:100%" href="services/web-design.html"><strong>&gt;&gt;</strong><span class="navbartext">WEB&nbsp;DESIGN&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></a>

can anybody tell me if this is a good thing or are we wasting our time because Search Engines would not be able to crawl it anyway? if there is a problem, can someone point it out to me please? thanks!

we've tested this on IE6, NS7 and Opera7 and it works pretty decent. :cheers:


jon



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Advisor
13-07-2003, 15:24/03:24PM
Generally, if there are a href tags, the engines can spider it. To be sure, you can put the links in the noscript tag and also some major ones at the bottom of your pages. Plus, it's a good idea to create a sitemap with straight text links.

Jill