Crawler visibility to tabbed content

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Crawler visibility to tabbed content

eoinoc333

10:30 am on Jun 25, 2009 (gmt 0)

Hi,

in a page, I have tabbed content. All the content is in one HTML page. It uses JQuery to display content for the tab selected.

Do search engines take account of all the content of all that tabs, even though only one tab's content is visible as default?

Thanks.
Eoin

janharders

10:33 am on Jun 25, 2009 (gmt 0)

I guess that depends on how your tabbing works. If all the content is actually on the site, just hidden by css, then robots will read it just fine. If the content ist defined in Javascript-Functions or fetched from another URL via Ajax, robots will probably not be able to read it.

eoinoc333

11:25 am on Jun 25, 2009 (gmt 0)

That's cool. It's not Ajax or anything, the content is right there in the HTML.

Is there a chance that the crawlers are checking CSS visibility of the content?