Are CSS-Java dropdown menus robots friendly?

Hi

As far as I know robots will index your whole website as long as they don't find javascripts on the way. But, consider this kind of dropdown menu, fully configured both in CSS and some JavaScript.

http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/example/

Do you believe robots will surf throughout all those <a> tags and will succeed indexing all the links on those dropdown menus?

Is this the best way of achieving a nice human user dropdown menu being friendly to robots as well?

Do you know any kind of dropdown menu that exclusively uses CSS in its code?

Thank you.

You can use a pure CSS dropdown menu but it will only work in standards compliant browsers (ie: not internet explorer).

http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutorials/testMenu.html

I don't know if they will or not - but a solution is to use a sitemap. And link to it plainly on the homepage. SE's will follow that link and go through your pages using the sitemap.

webg

If your hat is a little grey'er....

you could check which User Agent is the visitor, if it's a bot, then display plain links instead of the drop down.

I'd recommend using a combination of IP checks and User Agent to on the safe side.