thanks for your input I will give this a try. p.s sorry for my late response I was out of town.
On Jan 16, 8:33 am, "ryan.joyce...@googlemail.com" <ryan.joyce...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > I know... no Firebug in IE. Poo. > > maybe give firebug lite a go. it's a firebug library you can embed > into a page and view through any browser you like. > > http://getfirebug.com/lite.html > > it's always useful for trying to hack out random IE bugs. > > On Jan 15, 5:00 am, James Van Dyke <jame...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Ok... that's a hard page to get away from with all those alert boxes. > > I know... no Firebug in IE. Poo. > > > I believe that "class" is not what IE calls that attribute. For > > instance, element.class will return nothing. element.className is the > > correct property. Try that. > > > Plus, you could shorten your code and make it a bit more readable: > > > $("area").mouseover( function(){ > > $("#" . $(this).attr("class")).addClass('selected');}.mouseout( > > function() { > > > $("#" . $(this).attr("class")).removeClass('selected'); > > > }; > > > Let me know how that works out. > > > On Jan 14, 6:30 pm, Chrisw <chris.p.wel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > sorry if this is a repost but I didn't see it in the group and I > > > didn't get a copy in my email. I am working with an image map and i am > > > using the maphilight plugin and I want to add a border to an image > > > below the image map when a user hovers over anarea(based on the > > > iamges ID and thearea'sclass)(see code below) I got it to work in FF > > > but I cannot get it to work in IE. Any help? > > > > URL:http://oregonstate.edu/admissions/firstyear/recruitmap/map/ > > > > Code: > > > $("area").hover(function(){ > > > var stateClass; > > > stateClass = $(this).attr("class"); > > > var stateClassQuery; > > > stateClassQuery = "#"+stateClass; > > > alert(stateClassQuery);//for testing > > > $(stateClassQuery).addClass('selected'); > > > //mouse out > > > }, > > > function(){ > > > var stateClass; > > > stateClass = $(this).attr("class"); > > > var stateClassQuery; > > > stateClassQuery = "#"+stateClass; > > > > > > $(stateClassQuery).removeClass('selected'); > > > }
