seo friendly modal box - javascript

I have created a modal box that initially hides the modal box contents with css display: none. Then, I heard from some article that using this display:none could prevent google bot from crawling the contents, and it is not good for SEO.
Instead, it recommends me to use absolute positioning to create negative position values and hide that content.
I am trying to look for some good example of modal box that actually use this technique but I was wondering if:
modal box contents are really hidden from google to crawl?
Is this common practice to use negative position value for absolute positioning when creating a modal box?
Any good example I could look?

Don't use 0 height, negative margins to hide content. Google is able to understand now that you have hidden content in this way. Actually, inserting zero height for an element with text in it might trigger a flag with the Googlebot.
If you need to send text info to the crawler, then insert that text in the meta description tag. This way visitors do not see that, but Google will.

I'm an SEO. Google never gives a definitely yes or no answer, but the general consensus is placing content in modals and hiding them results in that content still being crawled, but it is held with less significance. This makes sense as most of the information Google is looking for would/should be presented to the user when the webpage is opened, not after. The majority of your ranking results will be due to your immediate on page seo. I wouldn't experiment with trying to transition or hide content in this way as Google does have methods of detecting this sort of thing, an could result in an even worse outcome for the site.

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Show/hide div element according to screen size, but allow that to be reversed by clicking a button

I have a site where I want to be able to show or hide a div based on both user input (clicking/tapping a button) and screen size:
a) If the screen width is greater than a certain size, show the div but allow the user to hide it.
b) If the screen with is less than a certain size, hide the div but allow the user to reveal it.
What I'm struggling with is getting these two requirements to interact properly.
I'm using Foundation 5 and jQuery, so both parts of this are possible - Foundation's "show-for-foo-up" handles initial visibility, and there are numerous jQuery functions that allow a div to be toggled between visible and hidden. But what I can't seem to do is find a way to allow a user click to reveal a div that has initially been hidden by Foundation's media query, or a way to do a pure jQuery toggle (ignoring Foundation) that sets the initial visibility according to screen size.
What makes this more complex is that the div contains a form. So I can't simply repeat it in two different divs and toggle between them, as doing that would either mean duplicate element ids or two different forms, both of which aren't possible in this scenario.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm open to either a jQuery solution, a Foundation solution or a pure javascript solution, just so long as it works!
Yes, CBroe's comment put me on the right track and my assumption thereafter was correct. All it needs is to use jQuery to alter the class of the div to add or remove the class which uses a media query. Dunno why I didn't think of this before, really.

Emulating an on-clickable input form

I'm seeking to emulate the on-clickable input forms that pops up when an user clicks on the blue bar as shown above. My experience with front-end development is limited so I don't know what to call these elements exactly, but let's say they are on-clickable input forms contained in a box, which can lead to other on-clickable forms like the date picker as shown.
How do I do this in Javascript? Preferably with AngularJS, since the app I'm working on uses that. I don't mind using JQuery though.
I'm not looking for detailed step-by-step instructions (which I don't mind), but hints to get me started on cloning these features.
Thanks.
The pop-ups you see are going to be HTML elements, probably <div>s. The page will use JavaScript to create event listeners on the bars to hide/show them when the bars are clicked/moused over. The "pop-ups" are really just like any other element in the page, but with a higher Z-index and using CSS positioning (most likely absolute) to make it appear as a pop-up. It also looks like they're using the CSS arrow trick to draw the speech bubble pointer, though it could also be accomplished with images.
If I were to develop this, I'd break it down into stages like this:
Get my pop-up into my HTML page, and make sure it's not appearing anywhere.
Make it show/hide when I wanted it to (either when the blue bar is clicked, or when the user mouses in/mouses out of the blue bar).
Make it show/hide where I want it to (near the blue bar)
Make it look better (work on the CSS and get the pointer to work properly)
Convert that work into a second-level popout. The second level is going to be the exact same technique, but maybe the CSS classes are going to be different so the second bubbles look different and have the pointer at a different position.
Of course, you don't have to develop this functionality yourself. There are also a number of jQuery plugins you could use, as well as Bootstrap's popover component.

Scale height of div with jquery - How will google react (SEO)?

Suppose I have a big div including much text. I want to show my readers only the first few text-lines. So I thought about scaling down the height of the div with javascript/jquery and add a "Read more" button.
Like that:
$('#content').height(20);
Here's a complete example: http://jsfiddle.net/zvQsX/1/
I guess google will index all the content, but will google interpret this as spam?
Thanks for your help!
Best
Andi
I'm not sure, but I think Google interprets a bit of CSS and display:none and simply would consider a hidden content as non-existent or at-least as less relevant than what you display directly.
Your technique is different and I honestly don't know how Google would interpret it. If we consider the law's intent, you are actually giving your users the whole thing (they can read it if they want and it's on the same page), and it shouldn't be considered as black hat thingy.
That said, why do you want to use scaling of div instead of display:none or text-indent:-9999px ?

Remove white space beneath Facebook comments plugin

Take a look at the this link. Scroll down a bit and you should see a Facebook comments plugin with an embedded Google map right beneath it.
My problem is, there is a ton of white space between the bottom of the comments plugin and the top of the map. Firebug indicates the white space is at the bottom of the comments plugin (as opposed to the top of the map). However, I can't seem to find a way to eliminate it.
I've tried just using relative CSS positioning to move the map up 50 pixels, but then it sits on top of the comments if there happen to be any. Also, if the user has turned FB comments off, it screws the layout as well.
Any ideas on how to get rid of the excessive white space?
UPDATE: While the answers provided here pointed me in the right direction, it ended up being too much trouble. I simply put the Facebook comments beneath the Google map at the bottom of the page which masks the problem somewhat. Apparently this is a bug according to one of the commenters below, so we'll just have to wait for a fix.
EDIT: Been toying with these styles for a while, no luck. I can alter the height of the box initially based on Jason's suggestions, but anything I do screws up the layout (new comments appear BEHIND the map since the comment area stays the same height as its original height, instead of allowing Facebook to dynamically grow the height of its IFRAME element when a comment is added). Any other ideas?
EDIT #2: It seems that the root of the problem is that Facebook automatically assigns a height of 200px to the IFRAME containing the comments box. When comments are added, Facebook dynamically resizes thie IFRAME to the appropriate height. I'd be able to solve my problem if I could find a way to make that default 200px start at 145px. Not sure if this is possible or why Facebook would think that 200 (arbitrary?) was a good height to start at.
EDIT #3: I realize the white space is coming from the IFRAME that Facebook generates and that there's nothing I can do about that, specifically. I started a bounty on this question because:
1) I find it hard to believe that I'm the only person that has an issue with the way this displays.
2) It's possible it's due to the way I configured something?
3) There's some other workaround I'm not thinking of.
Hopefully the bounty will encourage some creative replies!
Don't set the height to auto, set the overflow...
Set height:110px and overflow:auto on the Facebook iframe - then comments will expand the height of the iframe dynamically.
Pop these changes in your $().ready function - this works fine for me.
I had this problem on Mobile browsers. Facebook added this auto detect for mobile devices. It loads a different version of the plug-in that is full of bugs. Just set the mobile flag to false to force it to use the regular version that does not have bugs. This saved me. I hope it helps you.
There are several contributing factors:
.fbFeedbackContent has min-height: 165px
the loaded iframe has height: 200px
there is an empty span tag within the fb:comment tag
Addressing any or all of these should get you started. You may need to use !important to override some of the CSS.
I was suffering from the same problem. The extra white space only shows up when there are no comments yet. So you just simply do the following:
1.) Swap back to the old markup, because step 2) is not supported by HTML5
2.) Make a new div #commentcount, in which you will load the count of comments. You can hide it with display:none;.
3.) Insert the following code to #commentcount: <fb:comments-count href=http://example.com/></fb:comments-count>, where example.com is the exact URL of where you're commenting. In most cases this will be $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] (PHP), or the appropriate HTTP header variables in other languages.
4.) Store the comment count in a variable in JavaScript. You can reach the count easily, It's inside the #commentcount div in a span element. If you're not sure about this, check chrome dev tools or firebug, it will show you the rendered structure. (as facebook may change it eventually)
5.) Write a nice javascript code to update the facebook comment container div if(commentcount==0). Add a style of: height:110px; overflow:hidden;.
6.) Load the comment count frequently so if someone comments, you can drop the hidden overflow and fixed height, and they can see the new comment. You can do this using setInterval().
It works!
An easier alternative solution: You can set the style="background-color:#f5f5f5;" for the comments box if you have for example a site with F5F5F5 background color. The comments box colour will blend into your site. It looks nice.
Turn off mobile parameter.
For exemple:
<div class="fb-comments" data-href="http://example.com" data-width="470" data-num-posts="10" mobile="false"></div>
i solved it by setting the height on the . im using the facebook plugin in wordpress. you can find that file under /wp-content/plugins/facebook/social-plugins/comments.php in line 75 or set it to css
#respond{
height: 112px;
}
I am using FbComments plugin for Wordpress and there you can set the customisation options. This solved the problem for me.
Where it asks Comment box style AND Whole comment box style enter the height you want. It should be 72px. So you enter height:72px; in the space provided. Don't forget the ;

fitting absolute div popup in screen

Sorry maybe I was not clear in my original question below...
What I am looking for is a way to get a popup to move inside the windows viewable area (not actually create the popup itself). As seen in Google image's when you mouseover a image at the edge of the screen, somehow (which is what I want to know), the script detects that there is not enough space for the popup to appear in the window, so it pushes it inside the viewable range.
So I want to know how this is determined and calculated.
How can I use javascript to make sure
a popup div fits inside the window
when it appears?
A good example is google's image
search. When a image does not fit in
the window (either it is the far right
most or bottom most image), somehow it
is pushed inside when the popup is
opened with the mouseover event. How
is this calculated and how can I
create a script to calculate this.
you can use already build pop-up box/overlay window js library. Use jQuery js framework and go for any plug-in that provide you the same feature. I recommend you to use facybox http://fancybox.net/ with jQuery which makes this very easy.
There's no "use this code in your JS file" fix for this but the general idea is to reposition and override the offsets of the element in question, taking into account the viewport's bounds (to state the obvious).
For example, a couple of good tooltip plugins for jQuery support this behaviour, such as bassistance's jQuery Tooltip Plugin and also qTip. It might be worth digging into their source and seeing how they handle this.
This is one of the best i've come across http://gettopup.com/

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