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Hiding with CSS: Problems and solutions

# Linked to 5 May 2009, 02:30 in by Sam Brown

Using display:none to hide an element is a bad choice that reduces accessibility. I thought this was a well-known fact, but apparently there are many who are not aware of it being a problem. For that reason, here is a quick explanation of the problem and a suggestion for an alternative technique (that I also thought was well-known).

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Sam Brown

Sam Brown is a freelance interface designer and web standards developer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Sam's work can be seen at Massive Blue, blogs at Sam Brown and is on Twitter at @sambrown.