294658 - usemap in image changes entire image to hot area by default

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 90576

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Joseph Myers]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

usemap in image changes entire image to hot area by default--even when there is
no such map defined in the current HTML page.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit the example page: http://www.providenceproject.com/tour/pages/mp1.htm
2. Move the cursor over the main image.


Actual Results:  
The cursor changes to a hand as if ready to activate a link.


Expected Results:  
No hand should appear, since there is no link, and indeed, nothing occurs when
the image is clicked.




There is in fact no <map> corresponding to the name of the usemap associated
with the image. The browser should not then provide the illusion that the image
is a link, when indeed there is no link at all.

It may be that people have heretofore used this bug as a "feature" and invented
nonexisted usemaps in order to change the style of an image so that a hand will
appear on it when the cursor is positioned over it.

If this is the case, then

Comment 1

[Michael Newton]

Attachment: very minimal testcase

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 90576 ***