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CSS

Posted by Roland O'Donnell
Roland O'Donnell
5,667 Points

css image replacement technique best for seo performance..

I'm just looking for the best way to replace a text with an image i know of a few ways 

.hide-text {
text-indent: 100%;
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
}

.ir {
    font: 0/0 serif;
    text-shadow: none;
    color: transparent;
}

is there one best way? or are we just using loop holes still?

2 Answers

Claudiu Bancos
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Claudiu Bancos
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 22,468 Points
Claudiu Bancos
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Claudiu Bancos
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 22,468 Points

I think best practice is if the image contains meaningful content, just put it into your HTML as an <img> tag and put a good "alt" attribute in for accessibility. If you must have hidden text along with your image, there are a wide variety of methods for doing that, and I don't know that any of them are particularly better than others.

Iain Simmons
MOD
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 Points
Iain Simmons
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 Points

A lot of it now comes down to accessibility, as Claudiu Bancos mentioned.

Here are some articles exploring different options: