Hidden text can be selected in IE despite style='display:none'

Question

This appears to be an IE-specific \'feature\'. I tested using IE8. User John H has contributing by confirming in IE6 and IE7.

I have some text that gets built into

Answer 1

Have you tried the visibility:collapse property?

If the "Value I want hidden" part is used purely for computational purposes, you should use the "data" attribute.

Like this

Visible value 

In jQuery, HTML data attributes are automatically available via the data() api.

You can do

someElement.data('customValue') to read a value.

and

someElement.data('customValue', newValue) to set a value.

Hope I analyzed your problem correctly.