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Positioning content offscreen

By Isofarro on March 4th, 2008 - 5 comments

In cases where we need to hide content from a visitor but still make it available to the screenreader, we position it offscreen.
The simplest way to do that with CSS is to use the following style:

.offscreen {
position: absolute;
left: -999em;
}

Avoid offscreen using top
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