Equivalent to Area Map Link on Template Logo

[industrialpost]

I have searched the 68C documentation and didn't find anything on this topic. Essentially I want to allow a specific portion of the Template Logo to be used as a link back to index.php. The only thing I have been able to come up with is using a Map over the image: <img src="photos/{$template_logo}" border="0" alt="{$template_title}" usemap="#Map" /><map name="Map" id="Map"><area shape="rect" coords="15,24,319,138" href="index.php" /></map>

The reason why I am asking is that I am getting an error with HTML validation and I don't know why it the WC3 is flagging this line of code. So I thought if there was a way in the admin to control this, then perhaps I can eliminate this error.

This is the WC3's explanation of the error:

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…s="15,24,319,138" href="index.php" /></map>
The attribute given above is required for an element that you've used, but you have omitted it. For instance, in most HTML and XHTML document types the "type" attribute is required on the "script" element and the "alt" attribute is required for the "img" element.

Typical values for type are type="text/css" for <style> and type="text/javascript" for <script>.
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Can anyone please advise me on this?

[Mike-N-Tosh]

It appears that what you are missing is an alt= in your map area. In HTML/XHTML this is a requirement for an image element. Map areas are treated just like images, because that is essentially what they are. So in your map area you should have the syntax like this:
href="index.php" alt="Home" />

A good reference for this type of thing is here: w3schools.com

As you are working through validation errors use the reference section and click on the referenced element. Compare your syntax to the example syntax in the reference and you should easily be able to notice a difference to bring your code into compliance.

[Blair]

http://www.68classifieds.com/forums/...html#post40074

[industrialpost]

Hmm interesting. I never knew that you had to have an alt="" tag for an area map. I think it is really redundant and thus I thought it was something else causing the error. Thanks guys!

[Mike-N-Tosh]

Originally Posted by industrialpost

Hmm interesting. I never knew that you had to have an alt="" tag for an area map. I think it is really redundant and thus I thought it was something else causing the error. Thanks guys!

It may seem redundant to you, however to someone who is blind and is using a non-visual browser it certainly isn't.