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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.