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How do I insert a ahref around my mouseover divs - wordpress keeps removing the ahref

on the following site: http://www.strategix.co.za/ on that page you will see the heading OUR SOLUTIONS with the 8 hover over boxes.
what I'm trying to do is to wrap a href around each box so that not only when you hover over does it display the right side div but you can click on the box which takes you to the relevant page.
so in the code:
<div class="left2">
<div class="box2">Microsoft Dynamics ERP</div>
</div>
I try say:
<div class="left2">
<div class="box2">Microsoft Dynamics ERP</div>
</div>
But the minute I save it in wordpress it removes the ahref. I also tried this:
<div class="left2">
<div class="box2"><div>Microsoft Dynamics ERP</div></div>
</div>
But that didnt save either. I just need each seperate whole box to have an href.
Will appreciate some help.
Thanks.

Try
<div class="left2">
<div class="box2" onclick="javascript:window.location.href='link';">Microsoft Dynamics ERP</div>
</div>
Using javascript is one way to apply a link to an entire div.

Open popups on specific places of an image?

I have an Image in a HTML page. I want to display different information when the mouse is hovering over different areas of that image. For example, I want to display information-1 when the mouse is over point-1 on the image. And when leaving i want the information-1 to hide and when the mouse is hovering over point-2 i want to popup information-2. Is this possible with JS using any kind of library?

Yes It's possible.
You can approach in 2 ways:
Image Maps - Just a link with a tutorial
Use CSS to positionate transparent elements above the image and show some text when one of this is hovered.
I made this pen to show you an example with method 2. With method 1 is kinda the same, you just need to change a little bit the code.
HTML
<div class="img-wrapper">
<img src="http://i.imgur.com/ZY0gdtF.jpg" alt="">
<div class="cloud">
<p>Hey a cloud!</p>
</div>
<div class="tree">
<p>Tree here</p>
</div>
<div class="grass">
<p>Green Grass</p>
</div>
</div>
JS
$('.cloud, .grass, .tree').hover(function(){
$(this).find('p').show();
}, function(){
$(this).find('p').hide();
});
Of course all of this is just a sample.
While the first method allows you to define a shape, the second doesn't.
Using method 1 will let you define more accurate areas, but it can be hard. Method 2 is simplier but less accurate. Your needs, your choice.

Hiding/Showing extra content using Javascript

I havent used Javascript in a while and I have almost forgotten it all but I would like to be reminded how to show and hide html div boxs to display hidden content by clicking on a text or such.
In this case I would like to have a hidden box filled with login information while the ahref link will be the indicator to tell the loginbox to appear or disappear and by knowing this I could easily apply it to the register area.
I would like to know how to do this or a pop up box sort of thing.
This is what I have so far:
Could anyone help me with this now. I can't seem to get it work.
The toggle is
Login
Showing content
<div class="signup" style="display: none;">
<p> test </p>
</div>
Javascript is
function showStuff(signup) {
document.getElementById('signup').style.display = 'block';
}
Why won't this work

Looks like the issue with your code is that your div has a class as 'signup' not an id.
try:
<div id="signup" style="display: none;">
<p> test </p>
</div>
See this jsfiddle for a working example with an additional fix to how your function works.
http://jsfiddle.net/aUQ6B/
Original Answer:
See: javascript hide/show element
Code to make note of is the following:
document.getElementById('myid').style.display
Setting this to 'none' hides the element.
Setting it to 'block, 'inline' or whatever the original value was will show the element.

Clicking to an anchor from and image map causing page to move unnecessarily

I realize I'm still pretty new here, but I have a static image (Google Map but not using Google API yet) in which I have created hotspots which will pull up location data that lives in a table to the left of the map. When a hotspot is clicked on, however, the page scrolls down so that the top of the map (the image map) is at the top of the screen even though the information is directly beside the map.
I am assuming this is because the anchor is seeking to load at the top of the screen. This would be okay except that my header is now pushed out of the screen. Is there a way for the page to not "move" when the hotspot is clicked?
The page can be seen here: http://www.mydillonsupply.com/default.aspx?page=customer&file=customer/disupp/customerpages/locations_page.htm

Instead of using the default browser behavior (for anchor tags) just block it, and scroll the box yourself. I can see you are already using jQuery. So something like this ought to do the trick.
$('area').bind('click', function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
// the div in question has nothing uniquely identifiable as it is now,
// assign it a unqie class or id so you can select it
var findAnchor=this.href.split('#')[1];
$('#the_div').scrollTop($('a[name="' + findAnchor+'"]').next().position().top);
});
It's kinda hard to test in the context of that page, but if you set up a fiddle with just that part of it I am sure this could be made to work right pretty easily.
(edit) - OP set up a fiddle with the problem, updated version here:
http://jsfiddle.net/H3Mz6/9/
The code above has been updated to reflect what actually works. I also added the id "the_div" to the div surrounding the table of locations. Here's how it works:
1) get the part of the href after the # - the browser may add the full url.
2) find it, then get the next() element, because the invisible anchor tags will report that they have no location information
3) then get the position().top value which is the postion of that element relative to it's container
4) then scrollTop(..) to it
Contrary to #colinross's suggestion, there's nothing that's either non-extensible nor inflexible about imagemaps. Quite the opposite, they are the only way you can have irregularly shaped hotspots without going to a heck of a lot of trouble, and that gives you a lot of power. All you need to do to make them do whatever you want is bind your own mouseover and/or click events to the areas, and call e.preventDefault(). It's all yours from there.
Yes, I like image maps, and I also wrote a plugin that does a heck of a lot with them. So I am fairly biased. But I am surprised by the trouble people go to in order to avoid them (like absolutely positioning anchor links, complex css, and so on) when they're dead simple, easy to use, work with every browser under the sun, and are far more powerful than positioning all your hotspots by hand. (And without an imagemap, or some crazy logic to figure out where the mouse is on your own, you're limited to rectangular areas anyway!).

The jump is happening because you are using an image map that is processing a click to the location #DillonLocationsMap.
It is the same result as having an in-page anchor like <a name="over_here" /> and a link elsewhere of Go over here.
I would suggest you don't use an image map to be honest and they are not very extensible nor configurable.
give the fish answer
Move the actual <map> element up, to for instance before the table#MainTable element. It will still technically jump, but your header should still be in view.
p.s. Tables for page-layout makes pandas cry ;(

When you click on the link, your <a name="Nashville"></a> tag relating to said city end up scrolling to the top of your <!-- table containing locations -->.
Subsequently, this will work the exact same way as with a "Top" link where you place an <a name="TOP"></a> at the top of your page and then a Back to top at the bottom of your page. It will try to put the <a name="Nashville"> as close to the top of the viewport as possible (example: http://mix26.com/demo/local_scroll/index.html).
You could try something like this (found here):
<html>
<head>
<title>Document Title</title>
<script type="text/javascript" language="javaScript">
<!--
function go_anchor(n){
document.getElementById("div1").scrollTop = document.getElementById(n).offsetTop
}
// -->
</script>
</head>
<body>
To anchor 1<br />
To anchor 2<br />
To anchor 3<br />
To anchor 4<br />
<div id="div1" style="position:absolute; left:30; top:100; width:330; height:200; clip:rect(0,330,200,0); overflow:auto; padding:5;border:2px solid black">
<p>To anchor 1</p>
<p>Dummy Text 2</p>
<p>Dummy Text 3</p>
<p>Dummy Text 4</p>
<p>Dummy Text 5</p>
<p>Dummy Text 6</p>
<p>Dummy Text 7</p>
<p><span id="sp1">Anchor 1</span></p>
<p>Dummy Text 9</p>
<p>Dummy Text 10</p>
<p>Dummy Text 11</p>
<p>Dummy Text 12</p>
<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>
<span id="sp2">Anchor 2</span>
<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>
<span id="sp3">Anchor 3</span>
<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>
<span id="sp4">Anchor 4</span>
<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>
<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>
The End
</div>
</body>
</html>

How a Javascript Accordion Works?

I would like to create my own accordion component without using any AJAX toolkits, mostly for learning purposes. I am not sure quite where to start with this one. I'm assuming I would begin by creating div's for each section in the accordion. Perhaps each div would contain a header, which would be the actual button selected to move the accordion to that section. I am not sure the correct approach to take once an accordion's section button is selected though. Would I use the z-order, so that each section is of a higher z-order? Any help is appreciated.
Thanks

I would highly recommend picking up a book such as John Resig's Pro JavaScript techniques that will give you some ideas and initial thoughts about how to approach bulding your own client-side solutions.
Essentially, you would have an element to act as a header, for example <h1> or <div> under which you would have a <div> with an initial style of display: none;. Set up an event handler on the click event of the header to change the style of the div below to display: block and ensuring that any other content <div>s are hidden (do this by using a CSS class on each content <div> for example).
I'll leave the smooth animation to you as an exercise for how it might be accomplished. As a hint, I would recommend looking at how a JavaScript library like jQuery handles animation, by checking out the source.

The best way to order it would be like this
<div id="accordion">
<h3 class="accordion title">Title</h3>
<div class="accordion section">
Section Content
</div>
<h3 class="accordion title">Title 2</h3>
<div class="accordion section">
Section Content
</div>
<h3 class="accordion title">Title 3</h3>
<div class="accordion section">
Section Content
</div>
<h3 class="accordion title">Title 4</h3>
<div class="accordion section">
Section Content
</div>
</div>
You would want to avoid z-order entirely because it is a compatibility mess. Instead you would have the accordion titles be what you would click to open the accordion. You would want to set all of the accordion section <div>'s to visibility:hidden; by default, and then, when one of them is clicked, change it's visibility, and hide all the others. If you want it to work with any amount of accordion sections, you would have it count each <h3 class="accordion title"> and each <div class="accordion section">, and pair those up into an array. When a title is clicked, show it's corresponding div. Alternatively you could give each one a separate ID, but the first way would be much more useful.
Actually, it might be display:none; instead of visibility:hidden;, I would try both.
In addition it's worth mentioning that the animation is usually handled by changing things like the size of the div, so if you were hiding a section, you would make the height smaller and smaller until it reaches 0 and is hidden.

See this question, you will notice my answer contains a demo with the basic workings that should get you started. It was only asked a few minutes ago!
It uses jQuery.