Hidden text for customer usability - bad?

I am in the process of designing a new site that sells products. In order to make our site more user friendly, and visually pleasing I have considered having our product indexes just have the name of the item, and a picture of the item.

Then if the customer would like more details, they could click on a link that says "More information" and a box with text that was previously hidden with CSS will become visible displaying information about the product. The customer can then click a button and make the text box hidden again.

I have 2 questions about this:

1-Will the search engines be able to index the hidden text, and give credence to the keywords that are found there?

2-Will Google or any other search engine mistakingly consider this bad, and ban the site from the index?

The content in the text boxes will be legitimate human readable text. There won't be any keyword spamming, or stuffing or anything like that.

 

this is fine because the spider reads your html code and not your plain text. dont worrie this is perfectly legitimate

 

Thanks for the reassurance.

What got me concerned is this from Google's Webmaster Help Central.

Is there any possibility Google might think that I am trying to pull one over on them?

 

I would stay away from doing it.

 

I'm not sure about it. But I have read that using some techniques in CSS code can be consider as simple spamming. But I think it would depends on how it was created.

 

Use Javascript instead of CSS, as search engines can't read it.

 

it is pretty ok for product sale if you are not spamming.