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Noscript.

The <noscript> element can be used indicate content to be displayed if the desired scripting language (usually JavaScript) is not available in the browser. Here are a couple of finer points about <noscript> that I'd like to remember:

• Even if a browser does have the desired scripting language available, content inside the <noscript> tag is downloaded to the browser, and is available to the DOM. It is simply not rendered. Assets such as Flash files and images are not downloaded by the browser.
• Moving content inside the <noscript> tag can affect SEO. Most search engines do not index <noscript> tag. Even those that do index <noscript> content would not weight it as highly as plain content.

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