H1-6 image replacement

[htown]

I have seen somewhere but can not seem to remember where, a little trick that permitted me to use an image in a header tag as background but then use text for the search engines. The trick was quite simple, you just put a negative margin on the text so it could be read by the search engines but not be seen by the viewer.

Would anyone care to elaborate on this technique or suggest a better one?

Thanks,
Houston

[Dan Schulz]

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/hea...ages-css-xhtml

[logic_earth]

I always add an extra empty span to those headers i wish to change, and carefully position the span over the text and set the BG image to the span.

This is better for screen readers and Images off/css on cases.

<h1>Header<span></span></h1>

I really don't like the span but its the safest means we have at the moment.

[htown]

Thats what I was looking for. Thanks guys.