Title: Image Map border add?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Image Map border add?

 *  Resolved [Web Maker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cottagecrafted/)
 * (@cottagecrafted)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-map-border-add/)
 * Hi there!
 * Is it possible to add some kind of border to your image map? A visitor might 
   have no idea the image map exists (all they see is a picture). I would like it
   if the map had an option to put a border or flash the clickable areas when you
   mouse over the area. A plugin that does do this is [ImageMapper](http://wordpress.org/plugins/imagemapper/),
   but the support doesn’t seem to be there and it’s partly incompatible with my
   theme, is somewhat clunky, and doesn’t seem to have been updated in some time.
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 *  Plugin Author [Josh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josh401/)
 * (@josh401)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-map-border-add/#post-4415595)
 * Hi,
 * Yeah, the image map addon I use is obviously different from the plugin you linked
   to above.
    It would be almost impossible (not time/cost effective) to re-code
   my addon to support those additional features.
 * What is it, specifically, about the other plugin you don’t like? Other than being
   updated, what is ‘clunky’ or ‘incompatible’ about it?
 *  Thread Starter [Web Maker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cottagecrafted/)
 * (@cottagecrafted)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-map-border-add/#post-4415597)
 * Well, it’s just that it doesn’t work well with my mobile responsive theme. Works
   fine with Jetpack’s mobile theme module but the module overlaps with the theme’s
   responsiveness….it’s just not necessary to have two partly incompatible “themes”
   going at once.
    For the “clunkyness” part you have create the image map separately
   on its own blog post type, go to a separate backend blog post type page to edit
   the links you created for the image map, and then you can insert it just like
   a regular picture in the WordPress post. This, however is minor. The main thing,
   other than the compatibility issues above, is that the developer seems to have
   dropped off the face of the earth. Maybe there’s some custom CSS that can fix
   the mobile problem. I’m talking to theme support right now.
 *  Thread Starter [Web Maker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cottagecrafted/)
 * (@cottagecrafted)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-map-border-add/#post-4415599)
 * By the way though, if you’re going to have this image map thing, how do visitors
   tell it’s there without any visible borders? Or are there visible borders?
 *  Plugin Author [Josh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josh401/)
 * (@josh401)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-map-border-add/#post-4415610)
 * You know… to be perfectly honest.. image maps were never my thing. I’ve always
   preferred other alternatives to using an image map.
 * I would guess if borders are important; then perhaps they could be first added
   to the image via Photoshop. Then, use the image map addon to ‘re-draw’ the borders
   as maps.
 * I’m sure you can add custom css to image map elements as well; such as grow/shrink
   on hover; color change on hover; etc. I’d just need to research it a bit to get
   the proper process.
 * The borders can probably be done via css as well. Again, I’d have to look into
   this more.
 * Well – I’d be happy to do some research if you like. Sorry I can’t be of more
   help; but again, I just don’t ever use them.
 * If you care to collaborate.. I’ll happily provide my contact form details in 
   which we can open a more direct line of communication.
 *  Thread Starter [Web Maker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cottagecrafted/)
 * (@cottagecrafted)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-map-border-add/#post-4415744)
 * Sure. Sorry It’s taken so long to get back to you. Tried to email you back directly….
   not sure if that works on WordPress.org.
    Yes, if you can do that research and
   provide you direct contact I’d appreciate it.
 *  Plugin Author [Josh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josh401/)
 * (@josh401)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-map-border-add/#post-4415791)
 * While digging around in another clients system… I noticed she also makes use 
   of the image maps.
 * Inspecting the code further; it appears each section of the image map is marked
   with `<area>` html tags.
 * I would imagine you could use some CSS styling to add a border around this on
   hover… something like this would probably work:
 *     ```
       area:hover {
           border: 1px solid black;
       }
       ```
   
 * Give that a try.. and see what happens 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [Josh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josh401/)
 * (@josh401)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-map-border-add/#post-4415805)
 * Okay.. I’m gonna mark this thread as resolved.
 * Please feel free to change it back if this is still not working for you.
 * Thanks.

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