Is this DHTML "pivot menu" crawlable?

[dn2008]

We're thinking of implementing a dynamic HTML box similar to the one found at news.yahoo.com. Scroll down to the "more news" box -- see it "pivot" between two different frames or boxes?

The question is, is this specific implementation as crawler-friendly as regular HTML?

Curious to know the community's thoughts.

Thank you.

--Dave

[incrediblehelp]

The bottom line is that is the content and href links can be seen in the page code then the spider will also see it. So whatever navigation of content display types you decide to create, just be sure the crawler can see it in the code.

[mjancosek]

I did a view source. This page is pulling all the stories and links at once and then sits it on the site within the code. When a spider comes along it will grab all that code with the information and index it.

With some dynamic pages a click will trigger a database query thus refreshing the page and showing new content. The spider on this type of web page will only grab the code and content prior to the trigger.

So, your short answer is if you do it the way news.yahoo.com does it you should be fine since all content are on the page when it first loads.

[dn2008]

Thank you!