[Pro] Map area halo effect

I am trying to resurrect an old FW site. It makes heavy use of the map area tool. In the past, I’ve never had a problem with it. But now, whenever I click on anything that uses a map area there is a glowing line where I have drawn the area map. The line shows up when you click, and if you hit the back button, it will remain almost like a link does with a “visited state.”

Any clue what would be causing this or how I can get rid of it?

You can see it in the banner and all over the main store page.

Thanks so much to anyone who can take a look and share their ideas.

Doty


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I’ve posted this before and never received a reply. Does anyone have any thoughts they could share? I’d really like to fix this.

Thanks so much!
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You could try adding this to the Page/HTML Markup dialog, in the Before /head section:

<style type="text/css">
a, map {
border: 0 !important;
outline: 0 !important;
}
</style>

I’m not sure if map is treated as a separate tag from a, but this might help. You are seeing the outline, which is a helper for people who are navigating through the links on your page using the Tab key or an assistive device. It’s mean to indicate where the links are in a bold way, and I can understand why you don’t like it, but it is there for a reason.

Walter

On Dec 17, 2011, at 11:44 AM, Doty wrote:

I’ve posted this before and never received a reply. Does anyone have any thoughts they could share? I’d really like to fix this.

Thanks so much!
Doty


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Brand new to Freeway … I am one of the ones that is wanting no link markers on my image map. I can appreciate your reason Walter, but for me, it completely takes away from my clean design and makes it look amateurish. It is also a PURPLE line on my page. If you could pick the line color, that would at least be a little helpful. I have never used a web design program that didn’t give you the choice to turn that on or not.


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Brand new to Freeway … I am one of the ones that is wanting no link markers on my image map. I can appreciate your reason Walter, but for me, it completely takes away from my clean design and makes it look amateurish. It is also a PURPLE line on my page. If you could pick the line color, that would at least be a little helpful. I have never used a web design program that didn’t give you the choice to turn that on or not.

Do you have a question Dianna

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Just wanting to be counted as one that would love an option added or a solution offered to this purple line around mapped images! Thanks for having me clarify!


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You don’t have to use the Map Area tool - instead you can ‘draw’ empty graphic boxes and hyperlink to them.

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Yes! I could splice the graphic and link two boxes. I had a two graphic artwork in one graphic box that was going to 2 different links, that is why I used the map tool. Thanks for the solution!


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No reason why you cannot ‘draw’ 2 empty graphic boxes over the single image and apply a different link to each.

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There is a caveat here - if you ‘draw’ your empty graphic over your underlying image and in the process the underlying graphic border turns blue - this signifies that you are creating a nested child.

This will become a map area on publish.

Instead draw the empty one to the side and then position it over the underlying image (layered) after.

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You Rock DeltaDave! This is very workable solution.


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