Box appearing when I click on graphics in IE 6.0

[laredotornado@zipmail.com]

Hello, We have built a web page and on IE 6.0, Win XP, when we click on
graphics, a mysterious little dotted box appears around the graphic.
We're pretty sure this is nothing we've programmed in. Is this a
browser setting? Look at the innocuous little dotted box around the
button "Environmen t"

http://chalantmedia.com/showing-table.jpg

Is this something that can be turned off at a browser setting? This is
the code behind the environment button (but the box happens upon
clicking on any button)

<td>
<a href="environme nt.php" onmouseover="ch angeImages('NAV _14',
'images/NAV_14-over.gif'); return true;"
onmouseout="cha ngeImages('NAV_ 14', 'images/NAV_14.gif'); return true;"
onmousedown="ch angeImages('NAV _14', 'images/NAV_14-over.gif'); return
true;" onmouseup="chan geImages('NAV_1 4', 'images/NAV_14-over.gif');
return true;"><img name="NAV_14" src="images/NAV_14.gif" width="104"
height="58" border="0" alt=""></a></td>

Thanks, - Dave

[Jukka K. Korpela]

Re: Box appearing when I click on graphics in IE 6.0

laredotornado@z ipmail.com wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hello, We have built a web page and on IE 6.0, Win XP, when we click on
> graphics, a mysterious little dotted box appears around the graphic.[/color]

It's the "selection rectangle", one of the user-friendly features of IE
since version 4. See http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www/links.html#selrect
[color=blue]
> We're pretty sure this is nothing we've programmed in.[/color]

Depends on who "we" are. If you mean the mankind, then surely we have
programmed it in.
[color=blue]
> Is this a browser setting?[/color]

Not really.
[color=blue]
> Look at the innocuous little dotted box around the
> button "Environmen t"
>
> http://chalantmedia.com/showing-table.jpg[/color]

In future, please post the URL of the _page_ (_and_, if relevant, a URL
of a snapshot of it on some browser, too).
[color=blue]
> Is this something that can be turned off at a browser setting?[/color]

Not on IE. But this isn't the right group to discuss browser settings.
[color=blue]
> <td>
> <a href="environme nt.php" onmouseover="ch angeImages('NAV _14',
> 'images/NAV_14-over.gif'); return true;"
> onmouseout="cha ngeImages('NAV_ 14', 'images/NAV_14.gif'); return true;"
> onmousedown="ch angeImages('NAV _14', 'images/NAV_14-over.gif'); return
> true;" onmouseup="chan geImages('NAV_1 4', 'images/NAV_14-over.gif');
> return true;"><img name="NAV_14" src="images/NAV_14.gif" width="104"
> height="58" border="0" alt=""></a></td>[/color]

Stop worrying about problems that aren't problems. You have sufficiently
many problems already. To begin with, your alt attribute is much worse
than useless. What _were_ you thinking when you wrote alt="" there?

Besides, image swapping techniques are unnecessarily complex and
unreliable. Moreover, you clearly have far too many links in your
navigation bar. (Start from 1. It's often the best number.)

[Jim Moe]

Re: Box appearing when I click on graphics in IE 6.0

laredotornado@z ipmail.com wrote:[color=blue]
> Hello, We have built a web page and on IE 6.0, Win XP, when we click on
> graphics, a mysterious little dotted box appears around the graphic.
> We're pretty sure this is nothing we've programmed in. Is this a
> browser setting? Look at the innocuous little dotted box around the
> button "Environmen t"
>[/color]
I *think* it can be removed by
a { border: 0; }
but without an URL I cannot be sure.

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[laredotornado@zipmail.com]

Re: Box appearing when I click on graphics in IE 6.0

Here is the url

http://cwrefillonline.com/donate.php

When you said border:0, did you mean on the "img" element? I already
had that included (border="0") unless there are other constraints that
I should be aware of.

Much thanks for your serious, non-sarcastic reply.

[kchayka]

Re: Box appearing when I click on graphics in IE 6.0

laredotornado@z ipmail.com wrote:[color=blue]
>
> http://cwrefillonline.com/donate.php[/color]

That "doted box" around the links is the focus outline. It is an
accessibility feature of some browsers, including IE and mozilla. It
helps the user see which element on the page is active.

If you think it makes the page look unattractive, too bad. It is there
for your user's benefit. Don't mess with it.

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[laredotornado@gmail.com]

Re: Box appearing when I click on graphics in IE 6.0

I understand. Theoretically, if I "wanted" to mess with it, how would
that be done?

Thanks, -

[Els]

Re: Box appearing when I click on graphics in IE 6.0

laredotornado@g mail.com wrote:
[color=blue]
> I understand. Theoretically, if I "wanted" to mess with it, how would
> that be done?[/color]

Mess with what?
Please quote the relevant bits of the message you are replying to, so
that your message will make sense to other people.

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