Hover on Image Map

[netzhuffle]

In an image map, one sets the hyperlinks with area elements. How is it possible to detect mouse hover (CSS :hover) or mouseover (JavaScript onmouseover) on those links or set a title to those hyperlinks?

Since the area elements aren’t inside the img element itself, area:hover or :link:hover doesn’t work, neither does an onmouseover or title attribute in the area tag.

[zcorpan]

The spec says:

Pointing device interaction with an image associated with a set of layered shapes per the above algorithm must result in the relevant user interaction events being first fired to the top-most shape covering the point that the pointing device indicated, if any, or to the image element itself, if there is no shape covering that point. User agents may also allow individual area elements representing hyperlinks to be selected and activated (e.g. using a keyboard).

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/cu ... ng-model-0

[netzhuffle]

Thanks!

So it’s a bug in Webkit.