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Bug or Stupidity?: jQuery, Imagemaps, and Dynamically Inserting Area Tags

Posted by Kyle Weems on November 12, 2008

I’ve run across something that is not making any sense to me.

The situation: I’ve got an empty imagemap that I want to dynamically enter area tags into with jQuery. I’ve been trying to insert them using .append() or even .html() and every time I attempt to do so nothing occurs. I can insert text or other tags, but no actual area tags.

Now, if I go oldschool and use document.getElementById(insertnamehere).innerHTML = “inserttagshere” that works. But every variation I can think of to use jQuery methods to add an area tag fails.

Can anyone think of anything obvious that I’m missing here?

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One Response to “Bug or Stupidity?: jQuery, Imagemaps, and Dynamically Inserting Area Tags”

  1. The Dark Jester said on March 20th, 2009 at 7:51 am:

    You know… I had the same issue and you just solved it for me.. I put it down to stupidity!!!

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