CSS transparency and link problem

Hi,

Please take a look at this test site I am busy working on. If you scroll over the buttons on the left hand side of the screen (our teacher, our governors etc), the top two buttons have links to internal pages assigned to them. The bottom three links do not yet have links attached to them. All the button have the CSS transparency action applied. When you scroll over the two with links, the transparency only kicks in when the mouse is not over the text.

Can I overcome this? The buttons are created in Freeway Pro and inside and outside glows and shadows have been applied.

Why would adding a link change the action?

Thanks for your help!

Mike

http://www.fieldinfants.herts.sch.uk/test/teachers.html


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Why would adding a link change the action?

Because the way you have created the link has created a Map area (FW uses these when a link area is not a defined rectangle)

This then sits over the top of the area defined for the CSS Transparency action - the edge of your buttons work because it is not covered by the Map area.

To get this effect I would use a different method of Rollover such as at http://www.deltadesign.co/fw_examples/fwactions/rollover.html

David


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Hi Mike,
Looking at the page code I can see that Freeway is creating quite a complex looking image map for those links. The Action currently isn’t accounting for these which is why the transitions fail for these two buttons. I’ll have a look at the Action and see what I can do to add support for image maps like these but for the moment I would suggest exporting the buttons as images, bring them back in as passthroughs, apply the Action and link them from there.

This should create a simple image wrapped in a standard link rather than creating an image map.
Regards,
Tim.

On 16 Jul 2012, at 22:41, scoutdesign wrote:

Why would adding a link change the action?


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Thanks DeltaDave and Tim. I’ll do that for now. Will you let me know if this can be fixed though?


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Hi Mike,
I’ve been looking at the image maps Freeway creates when graphic effects are used and in all honesty they aren’t great. It appears that Freeway is miscalculating some of the points for the map. For example in the following page I plotted the map points on the graphic in red. You can see that the map only covers some of the image and would be better off just wrapping the image in a single, simplified, link.

http://www.freewayactions.com/test/image-map-test/

I’m reluctant to fix the CSS Transparency Action to work with the image maps as they are, IMHO, overly complex for the job and shouldn’t really be used. For the moment I would recommend importing the images as passthroughs and adding the links from there as Freeway won’t create image maps from passthrough objects.
Regards,
Tim.

On 17 Jul 2012, at 09:58, scoutdesign wrote:

Thanks DeltaDave and Tim. I’ll do that for now. Will you let me know if this can be fixed though?


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Thanks Tim! I have changed the links and they work well now. Is it something you might look at in the future though?


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Hi Mike,
Never say never. :slight_smile:

The issue with the image map in the equation is that i’d have to figure out how to fire the hover effect when the user moused over the link. With regular links this is easy enough but it doesn’t appear to work with map areas. I’ll look into it but can’t promise to have the issue resolved soon - certainly without resorting to using JavaScript to fire the transition effects.
Regards,
Tim.

On 17 Jul 2012, at 12:02, scoutdesign wrote:

Thanks Tim! I have changed the links and they work well now. Is it something you might look at in the future though?


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