HTML gurus - question on Image Maps

[housepig]

okay, someone will know this.

I'm making a page with a combination of Mozilla Composer and hand-coding.

the page is one large image, on a black background, where the image is mapped with various links to other pages or media files.

all the links & mapping work fine - the only issue is that, when the image is made into an imagemap, a blue border appears all around the image.

I have all the link color values set to #000000 (black), but it doesn't change it - I still have the blue border. since the background of the picture and the background of the page are both black and meant to be seamless, this is pissing me off rather badly.

what I need to know, is this framing / border a given when using an imagemap, or is there a way around it?

any help / info / links appreciated.

[Baldrick]

tried border="0" ?

[housepig]

tried border="0" ?

no, since I didn't see any "border=x" code in the source

where would I put it? in with the img tag, or the map tag?

[flaninacupboard]

mage tag from what i remember....

It's irritating, there's no instruction to -put- a blue border there, but you have to place an instruction to remove it....

[housepig]

Baldrick - you're a genius. it looks perfect now.

it's an interface for a cd with bonus content, and the artist was getting a little antsy when I told him about the blue border - he'll be more stoked than I am now that it's gone...

"border=0" is my second favorite piece of code, right behind target="_blank"

thanks again, guys.

[stiltman]

"border=0" is my second favorite piece of code, right behind target="_blank"

Now that made me laugh

[thecoalman]

mage tag from what i remember....

It's irritating, there's no instruction to -put- a blue border there, but you have to place an instruction to remove it....

That's the default settings of the browser at work. It will always display the default where no attribute is applied (e.g. font, font size, anthing really.) I don't even specify a font size on my pages since most people adjust them in ther browser anyway with the exception of some where I use relative size as opposed to absolute.


You can also use a external CSS document to specify attributes for all the images in an entire document instead of having to do each one.

Put this line in your head tag.


<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="format.css">


Now open a new wordpad document and add this.

img
{
border: 0px;
}

Save the wordpad document as format.css in the same folder as your html document. Now all your images will have the default border of 0. You can use CSS to apply default attributes to any tag you want.