How do I lock hot spots within a picture in Front Page?

[Guest]

I have been trying to lock my hotspots within a picture but it is not
happening. Once the screen size changes, my links are all over the place.
What do I do?
Also, for some reason, hot spot properties do not appear?

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Do not use absolute positioning for the image or VML Graphics, just insert the image on the page or
in a table then apply the hotspots.

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[Murray]

Since the hotspots are offset from the current image's position by the
browser, I can't see that using absolute positioning on the image would have
any effect on the hotspot location at all. The VML might, though....

To know for sure what the culprit is, though, we would have to see the code.

Funny how that code thing always comes up.... 8)

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

If you absolute positioning the image, and then apply the hotspots, the coordinate for the hotspots
shift with the browser viewpoint.

VML uses absolute positioning.

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[Murray]

Thomas:

Consider this code -

<div style="position: absolute; z-index: 1; left:57px; top:155px"
id="layer2">
<map name="FPMap0">
<area href="new_page_6.htm" shape="rect" coords="92, 111, 218, 218">
</map>
<img border="0" src="../blah.jpg" width="300" height="301"
usemap="#FPMap0"></div>

Note the layer's position, and the coordinates of the hotspot.

Then look here -

<div style="position: absolute; z-index: 1; left:438px; top:158px"
id="layer2">
<map name="FPMap0">
<area href="new_page_6.htm" shape="rect" coords="92, 111, 218, 218">
</map>
<img border="0" src="../blah.jpg" width="300" height="301"
usemap="#FPMap0"></div>

Again, note the layer's position and that of the hotspot. The hotspot's
coordinates are offsets from the current position of the image, regardless
of what that position is.

<map name="FPMap0">
<area href="new_page_6.htm" shape="rect" coords="92, 111, 218, 218">
</map>
<img border="0" src="../blah.jpg" width="300" height="301" usemap="#FPMap0"
style="position:absolute; left:357; top:173">

Note that this is true even when I position the image directly.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Ok, then why is the user having an issue with the hotspots not match the original design location
when the screen size is changed?

When I insert a map of the US in a fixed width table with hotspot, and centered on the page, my
hotspots are always in the correct location to the map no matter what.
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[Thomas A. Rowe]

Ok, I see your point....It should always be with the image.

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[Murray]

Right. The coordinates in the <map> refer to offsets from the current
image's position, wherever that is.