background image mapping Options

[CtrlAltDeceit]

I've been trying the image mapping codes I've found on the various repetitive threads in here but they all only seem to work in regard to getting a header image with mapping..

How would I go about applying this code...

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to alter the background so that the text in the background [here] is mapped accordingly?

Sorry if I'm wasting anyones time by posting this. You think I'd learn..

Lab-Rat springs to mind

[*mipadi*]

Images set as the background cannot be used as an image map.

The best you can do is make a DIV that covers your entire page, place it on the back (but technically above the background), and put your image in that DIV; then apply an image map to that image.