Are Links In NOSCRIPT OK If Search Engines Can't Read DHTML?

[briandoakes]

Hello,
Sorry if this is common knowledge/...

I was looking at a website who sells a DHTML Menu Generator, so I could make the fancy drop down menus and such, but I know drop down menus in JavaScript were no legible by Search Engines.

Now this site is promoting their product saying that it is Search Engine Friendly as it generated a <NOSCRIPT> with <UL> and <LI> in it comprised of all the same elements of my drop down menus....

Does anyone know if this is frowned upon by Google?

thanks so much.,...

[neckbone]

The <noscript> tag is for allowing visitors who have scripting disabled in their browsers to see content generated by a script. The content inside the tag is ignored unless scripting is disabled.

The consensus is that engine crawlers don't read scripts so the <noscript> tag provides a way for them to see script generated content. There's no reason for a search engine to frown on legitimate use of the <noscript> tag.

[briandoakes]

great thanks so much.,....

yeah then my site should be good since I am using the noscript just to show my menu.