Re: Making text invisible

On 2008-10-29, Swifty <steve.j.swift@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm sending an HTML email to Lotus Notes and I'd like to hide some text
from casual observation. There is nothing sinister in this; the text to
be hidden is simply a 12-digit number that I use to indicate to the
recipient (me!) that the mail can be archived without reading (It is a
"Job ran successfully" note). It makes writing message filters simpler.

So the challenge is to find something that Lotus Notes will "see", but I
won't. How browsers respond is not relevant here.

At the moment I'm using <SPAN STYLE="color:#fff">. The white text
disappears on the white background. This works, but under some
circumstances the background is not white, so not ideal.

I played with opacity, but Notes doesn't support this, so the text
doesn't remain hidden.
I tried using visibility:hidden but Notes doesn't see the hidden text
either, so I can't use this.

I'm running out of tricks to hide text. Any suggestions?

CSS3 "color: rgba(0,0,0,0);" Quite likely not to work in Notes.

"position: relative; left: -1000px" works in UAs that disallow left
scrolling. I disapprove of disallowing left scrolling but that doesn't
stop them all doing it.
.

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