expatCanuck

I've not been able to get usemap to work on a background image, but a 'Div on Div' approach worked. The 'breakthrough' came when I realized that I had neglected to specify 'px' after the Div's numeric position parameters, and so the text Div that I had defined stayed stuck at the top left.

Greetings - I'm modifying my site to implement a tabbed notebook metaphor. I've developed a handful of notebook .jpgs, an example of which is here: http://oldwithoutmoney.com/wip/index2.html As an initial approach, I created a usemap to implement tab navigation. Moving the cursor over a tab shows that the usemap works -- each tab is a link to another page (not yet placed on the site). But just as important is the ability, for any given page, to define an area in the .jpg where I can place editable text (e.g. - where the taped photo is). Currently, any text I add shows up before or after the entire image (i.e. - on the black bacground before or after the wood grain). But if I place the image in the background, that breaks the usemap. Can text be added over an image being used as a usemap and, if so, how? Alternately, do I need to split the tabs into a separate graphic (in which case, can I seamlessly display the left & right side)? Or might I have to (learn and) create some javascript to implement the tab navigation? Any & all insight, best practices & experience welcome. Thanks, - Richard