css - font-size 0 still shows up in IE7

Question

For some odd reason, when I set a font-size:0px; in my style-sheet for an anchor link, IE7 still shows a tiny-tiny version of the text. Is there anything I should consider doing to completely hide the text, without using text-indent?

The anchor itself is using a background image in the css. And I simply want to hide the text that in the anchor link, on the HTML page.

Answer 1

visibility: hidden and display: none are the standards in hiding elements.

The difference between the two is that visibility acts like opacity, in which the element is hidden but it still affects the layout of the page (e.g. a 200px high element will still make the element below it 200px lower than if it were not there).

display acts as if the element were not there at all - a 200px high element would not make an element below it 200px lower that it would be if the first element were not there.

Summary:
Thus, if you want to hide the text and leave a blank space in its place, use visibility: hidden. If you want to hide the text and have it act as if it were not there at all, use display: none