We have an Image Map via HTML for images and we use the tag <IMG
HIDEFOCUS ... to remove the lines that are created from the Image
mapping. This works perfect for everything but the Mac. On a Mac, the
image mapping lines appear on the Image that is mapped. What can we do
to remove these lines on the image where we have an Image Map
overlayed on the Image?

Hi,

It is known that IE for Mac has that problem. You can workaround it
like that:

For every "area", you put an onFocus="this.blur()" event. For example:

<area alt="" shape="circle" coords="168,115,61" href="test1.html"
onfocus="this.blur()">

Hope this helps
Bio

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Clarification of Answer by bio-ga on 20 Dec 2002 10:21 PST

Note: Sorry about the example, it should read:

<area alt="" shape="circle" coords="168,115,61" href="test1" onfocus="this.blur()">

It sounds like you are using IE for Mac. If you go to Preferences:
Browser Display, and select the bottom radio button "Tab to just Text
Fields" then the highlighting should be gone.

There is no way to have this option selected automatically for clients
who view your websites. It's actually a feature of IE.

Good Day,

Do you have border set to 0 in your image tag? I don't know if this
would carry over to the actuall map, but it's worth a try. I do not
have a MAC to test on.

Regards,
Google Answers Researcher,
slawek-ga

Dear Supermacman -

You could propably do this with server side image maps. If you use the
Apache server, here is a link that will take you to a tutorial:

http://www.usask.ca/help/helpers/web_page/tools/imagemaps.html

Good luck!