JavaScript Image Map

JavaScript Image Map

You can use JavaScript to create client side image map. Client side image maps are enabled by the usemap attribute for the <img /> tag and defined by special <map> and <area> extension tags.

The image that is going to form the map is inserted into the page using the <img /> element as normal, except it carries an extra attribute called usemap. The value of the usemapattribute is the value of the name attribute on the <map> element, which you are about to meet, preceded by a pound or hash sign.

The <map> element actually creates the map for the image and usually follows directly after the <img /> element. It acts as a container for the <area /> elements that actually define the clickable hotspots. The <map> element carries only one attribute, the name attribute, which is the name that identifies the map. This is how the <img /> element knows which <map> element to use.

The <area> element specifies the shape and the coordinates that define the boundaries of each clickable hotspot.

The following combines imagemaps and JavaScript to produce a message in a text box when the mouse is moved over different parts of an image.

 

<html>

<head>

<title>Using JavaScript Image Map</title>

<script type="text/javascript">

<!--

function showTutorial(name){

  document.myform.stage.value = name

}

//-->

</script>

</head>

<body>

<form name="myform">

   <input type="text" name="stage" size="20" />

</form>

<!-- Create  Mappings -->

<img src="/images/usemap.gif" alt="HTML Map"

        border="0"usemap="#tutorials"/>

 

<map name="tutorials">

   <area shape="poly"

           coords="74,0,113,29,98,72,52,72,38,27"

            href="/perl/index.htm" alt="Perl Tutorial"

            target="_self"

           onMouseOver="showTutorial('perl')"

           onMouseOut="showTutorial('')"/>

 

   <area shape="rect"

            coords="22,83,126,125"

            href="/html/index.htm" alt="HTML Tutorial"

            target="_self"

           onMouseOver="showTutorial('html')"

           onMouseOut="showTutorial('')"/>

 

   <area shape="circle"

            coords="73,168,32"

            href="/php/index.htm" alt="PHP Tutorial"

                target="_self"

           onMouseOver="showTutorial('php')"

           onMouseOut="showTutorial('')"/>

</map>

</body>

</html>

This will produce following result. Move your mouse around and see the changes:

HTML MAP

 

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