Hidden text in an <H1> tag?

Ok. I'm a pretty basic HTML kind of guy. I have a new client where I'm doing some SEO work on the site. The webmaster has used this code to create a bold <HR> line:

<H1 border><font color="#FFFFFF">Great Widgits</font></H1>

Seeing as the background is white, I'm concerned that the spiders will interpet this as hidden text. Yes? No?
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Yes, any text you can not see, same color as background etc., is 'hidden' text and not a good thing..

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Hidden text is something i'd definitely avoid. <H1> or not...

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Thanks Steve. That's what I figured. No. Not a good thing at all. One more thing that I wanted to make sure of is:

This is the way this person has the actual <H1> tag set up in order to include the bold <HR>.

<H1 border>Great Widgits</H1>

I assume that this will be viewed by the spiders as an <H1> tag?

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Yes, that is still an H1 tag - it's just calling a style function..

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Good. That's what I was hoping. I'm keeping my eye out for more things that the webmaster has done also. I've found a few more already. For instance:

<p><H1>&nbsp;</H1>

It's a nice looking site, so either this guy was careless, or just didn't care, or was using some weird wysiwyg program. (rant rant rant) I'll just have to check everything.

Thanks

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fromthe5 wrote:
Good. That's what I was hoping. I'm keeping my eye out for more things that the webmaster has done also. I've found a few more already. For instance:

<p><H1>&nbsp;</H1>

It's a nice looking site, so either this guy was careless, or just didn't care, or was using some weird wysiwyg program. (rant rant rant) I'll just have to check everything.

Thanks

That's something Front Page might do.

Dave

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Ah yes! I just love fixing the things Front Page does to the code

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