image swaps and imagemaps 1

[MasterKaos]

I am trying to swap the underlying imagemap that belongs to an image i am swapping. What i need to do is set the usemap attribute.

I have had some success by using

document.pic.setAttribute("usemap", "#map");

where pic is the id of the image element.

This works correctly in FireFox, but not in MSIE. I have tried sending an alert to display the usemap value after the change and as expected in FireFox it returns the new imagemap but in MSIE it returns the old one.

You can find the page here:

http://australiacard.com.au/vic/index.php?page=places&username=demo&password=demo#4

but don't freak if it's not there or if it's changed because it's a work in progress. I'll post here if i find the solution and the above link is no lomger relevant.

Any ideas?

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Try adding a third parameter, ", 0" to your setAttribute method call:

document.pic.setAttribute("usemap", "#map", 0);

It tells IE to ignore any case-sensitivity issues. While non-standard, it should not break other browsers.

Hope this helps,
Dan


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[MasterKaos]

Thanx BillyRay, that did the trick!!!

Note to anyone that visits the above URL: the feature i sought help about now works, whereas other things may not since it's under development.

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