I loaded my image/image map onto a webpage (a sharepoint wiki page). I was hoping that the text I added in the mouse-over box in the GIMP image map tool would appear in a small pop-out when someone moused over any of the hyperlinks that I have mapped in the image. This is currently not working. What am I missing?
The text you add is for the "alt" attribute while the text for a mouse-over should go in the "title" attribute. Not very hard to change one for the other with a text editor:
Code:
<img src="TestMap.png" width="400" height="400" border="0" usemap="#map" />
<map name="map">
<area shape="rect" coords="0,0,200,200" title="upper-left popup" href="upper-left.htm" onmouseover=foobar />
</map>
However, note that "foobar" above, entered in the "onmouseover" field in the "Javascript" tab is just causing eerror in the Javascript console since it should really be a valid bit of JavaScript (possibly a call to some JavaScript function).
I tried moving the text that I want to appear during the mouse-over of a link from the onMouseover box on the Java tab, and put it in the ALT text box on the Link tab. Text still does not appear when I mouse-over that hyperlink in the image on my wiki page.
You won't get that text from the plugin, since the plugin won't set the adequate attribute. You have to add the title attribute yourself or change the "alt=" into a "title=".