fifeclub — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 05:18:32 +0000

Thanks.

Just moments ago I switched back to using straight forward cut-up images instead of image maps so the links in my original post won't show any examples anymore. But thanks for the help. I still use image maps on two other sites and I will definitely need to get those sites "upgraded" to XHTML 1.1 valid sooner or later, so that info will come to good use.

Suzanne — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:33:31 +0000

You should always doubt someone else's knowledge if you can test it! More on the specifics (search for "underscore CSS naming" and you'll get some hacks as well).

Yes, you can use an ID for something that is unique on the page but used on many pages. That's perfect usage.

The errors on your page are simple -- don't use name in the map element, use quotes around attribute values, and use usemap="map" -- where's the problem?

fifeclub — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 13:34:49 +0000

Suzanne wrote: No underscores are allowed in CSS names, dude.

Interesting. I don't doubt your knowledge but I use underscores within CSS names all the time and that's never caused a validation problem. Here's a validation link to one of the other pages that use an underscore for two different sections.

Busy wrote: come to think about it, why use an image map for this anyway, it's totally pointless. A linked image does the same thing, either way your email addres is hardcoded.

I was thinking about, and I'm still considering just linking the images but then I would need to carve up all of my images into smaller pieces. As I'm doing it now, all the 'right-side-content' graphics on each page are one of two sizes to make CSS coding simpler. That was just my thought process but if it's not going to validate than I may as well go back to the carved up method.

Busy wrote: your missing quotes around shape="rect"
area tag needs to be closed
try remove the id="map" from map tag
put the div above the map tag

Been a while since I've done an imagemap but you may also have to add a default, try the above first and see what errors, if any you get.

As for the id for border, try class, not id if using for more than one time use.
border="0" is valid

I'll try that recommendation when I get a chance to work on it tonight. Regarding the border, I am using the ID instead of class because that 'tag' (content_BR) is only being used once per page but it is being used on multiple pages. As I understood it, that's okay, right? And it's just that I can't use the same ID= on the same page, right?

Busy — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 09:29:40 +0000

come to think about it, why use an image map for this anyway, it's totally pointless. A linked image does the same thing, either way your email addres is hardcoded.

Suzanne — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 00:35:41 +0000

No underscores are allowed in CSS names, dude.

Busy — Sun, 10 Oct 2004 23:18:08 +0000

your missing quotes around shape="rect"
area tag needs to be closed
try remove the id="map" from map tag
put the div above the map tag

Been a while since I've done an imagemap but you may also have to add a default, try the above first and see what errors, if any you get.

As for the id for border, try class, not id if using for more than one time use.
border="0" is valid