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Does this cause problems for web crawlers indexing sites, since these are not typical js event listeners etc? Even though they must use them in the background, there is an abstraction the crawler must be able to navigate. I had an entire site de-indexed for getting too fancy once, so I worry about this type of thing perpetually now.

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I'd think HTMX would work with even the most basic of crawlers, since it doesn't require JS at all to be usable. But I don't know how well a JS aware crawler would do with it.

I guess you could block htmx.js in robots.txt to force them to the non-JS experience?

It won't matter as long as you are using regular `a` tags for links. You anyway don't want robots to submit forms and perform any actions that are meant for users.

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