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visible on hover image map not working Safari/Chrome


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Hi all,

I have a menu and on hover of each menu option a div is made visible to the immediate right of the menu. most menu options are simply a single image with a link to another page. You hover over the menu option then move the cursor onto the now visible div to interact with it.

However one of the menu options needs to show an image map in the div. In both firefox and IE it is possible to hover over the menu option then put your cursor over the now visible image map and select the correct link. However in Safari and Chrome as soon as your cursor moves off the menu option to over the image map div it stops being visible.

Here is the code for the image map section i have in a test set up.

HTML

<div id="main_menu">
<div id="option5">
<img src="/images/main_menu/option5.jpg" alt="" />
<div class="visible"><img src="/images/main_menu/option5_big.jpg" usemap="#sales" alt="" />
<map id="sales" name="sales">
    <area shape="rect" coords="445,46,635,107" href="/files/Flyer.pdf" alt="Past Sale Flyer" />
    <area shape="rect" coords="445,158,635,217" class="cbyoutube" title="Opening Day Rush" href="*youtube link snipped*" alt="Opening Day Rush" />
    <area shape="rect" coords="114,254,522,325" href="/files/cupweekend.pdf" title="Cup Weekend Sale Flyer" alt=""/>
    <area shape="default" nohref="nohref" title="Default" alt="Default"/>
</map></div>
</div>

CSS

#main_menu {
	position: relative;
	width: 886px;
	height: 354px;
	display: block;
	margin-top: 1px;
	margin-left: 15px;
	margin-bottom: 1px;
}

#option5 {
	position: relative;
	display: block;
	width: 249px;
	height: 140px;
}

#option5 div.visible {
	display: none;
}

#option5:hover div.visible {
	position: absolute; 
	top: 0;
	left: 250px; 
	height: 354px; 
	width: 636px;
	display: block;
}

As I said the menu works perfectly in firefox and IE but not safari or chrome. I realise i cloud slice up the image and do it that way but if possible I'd like to find out why Safari and Chrome are playing up.

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I don't know if I'm right here as its a bit late and I'm blooming tired, but of course its only going to show while the mouse is on it, as it is being set to only be shown upon hover.

Now I cant remember if it is because IE/FF interpret it wrong which is why it stays, but the moment you move the mouse off, its no longer going to be set under the hovered state so it should by design disappear.

Again if I'm wrong, I'll stand by the 3am and tired excuse :p

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no no I appreciate your response and of course some things may not look clear from that code without actually trying it out.

The problem only comes up with an image map. If i just have this it will work perfectly in all browsers:

<div id="main_menu">
<div id="option5">
<img src="/images/main_menu/option5.jpg" alt="" />
<div class="visible"><img src="/images/main_menu/option5_big.jpg" href="blahblah" alt="" />
</div>
</div>

With the above code I can move my mouse over the newly visible image option5_big.jpg and click on it to go to the link. This is how all the other menu options are working currently.

However once I introduce the image map to the class="visible" div the interaction with that div falls apart in Safari and Chrome but continues to work in IE and FF

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@ cupcakes - I'm not sure if that is suitable. I want to be able to change the menu options and their respective images depending on the needs of the site.

let me explain my layout with a picture...

33vf2it.jpg

So this is basically the entirety of the main page. The top half of the image i mean. You hover over one of the menu options on the left and the space to the right is filled with the relevant content. In this case an image with a link to more information etc.

When going over one of the options i want it to show the image map. The image map is roughly mapped like i have shown in the image. This image map is to appear in the div class="visible" just like all the other content.

In FF/IE this is working perfectly, Safari/Chrome it is not. I am unable to put my mouse focus over the image map. The other options work fine as they are not image maps, just images.

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Yeah, I'm pretty sure you are making this more difficult for yourself then it really has to be.

Not sure why you even need an image map to begin with when you can easily use z-index to layer your CSS. Anyway just look at it you can easily utilize a jQuery accordian and in each "option" have the image set as a background with any pertinent links over it. Easy peasy.

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well it was really easy until Safari and Chrome decided to not play along, haha.

I will have a look at this jquery accordian and see how I go. I was wanting to learn more about jquery anyway :) Thanks for your help.

I am still curious though about what is it that is making Safari and Chrome unhappy, I'm used to IE being the unhappy one.

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sigh... i implemented the jquery accordian method but not colorbox isn't working. going to try and implement it from scratch again... this has been a nightmare. I have spent the last 4 or 5 hours (on and off) to end up with a site that is more broken than how i started.

EDIT: Completely redoing colorbox has solved the problem. looks like everything is working as it should. Thanks for all the help.

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thanks cupcakes for all the help, i am using the same version that i was before that wasn't working (latest jquery compatible 1.4.3), i just deleted the script and references to it and started again. For some reason it is working. I can only assume somewhere i had lost a ">" or similar in the process of adding the accordian. Now I just need to fix up the rest of my links to work with colorbox again.

Appreciate all the help, the accordian method words a treat.

EDIT: with a little more looking all is working across all browsers now. thanks :D

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