You're right. Here's a portion of the code that works OK with IE but not with Netscape nor Firefox. Is it true that Netscape and Firefox do not pop up "alt" tags? If so, is there a way to enable them to do so? My website is http://www.kim-webb.org. The hot spot with the mouse arrow on Rosemary's face in the group photo should self-identify Rosemary (on the back row to the viewer's left).html><body><img src ="portrait.jpg" width="377" height="300" usemap ="#portraitmap"/><map id ="portraitmap" name="portraitmap"> <area shape ="rect" coords ="55,76,66,98" nohref="..." target ="_blank" alt="Rosemary"/></map></body></html>