Hello to everyone I know you are thinking now what is the image
map in our Html or pages.
Image Map is an image that you can link by the tag shape
area or the position link by using images.
Any image that is subdivided into regions that point to
different pages is called an Image Map.
There are two ways that you can put an image map on your page: by using Client
Side image maps or Server Side image maps. Client side scripting is when the
coordinates for the image map is stored on an HTML page.
Server side image maps store the coordinates for the image map on the page's
web server. Because Client Side image maps are quicker loading and easier to
understand, we will only explain how to implement Client Side image maps.
I will show you to you how we make our own image map in our
images and putting their link. So let us begin now in our tutorial.
When we are going to make an Image Map we need to use a < Map>tag. The <Map> tag
use in the body part of our page and we are going to put our own Image map in
our pages. The <Map> tag takes one attribute: The NAME attribute. The
NAME attribute gives our
When we want to create an image map we use the <MAP>
tag. The <MAP> tag, when put in the body part of our page, which is
telling our image to be link in our created Map
First we are going to put a tag name by putting:
<MAP NAME="newmap">
And we need to make our own image before we proceed an image
map link.
How do we make it into an image map? Well, there's really no
physical way to change it into an image map. All that you can do is divide it
into areas that link to different pages. We do this by using the <AREA> tag.
The <AREA>
tag takes three arguments: SHAPE, COORDS,
and HREF. SHAPE is easy:
It tells the browser what shape the said area is. SHAPE can be given three arguments, "RECT" for rectangle areas, “CIRCLE" for areas that are circles, and "POLY" for polygons that are not
rectangles.
So far, our
<AREA> tag looks like this:
<AREA SHAPE="circle, rect or poly">
So how do we define the actual coordinates of our shape? As
you've probably guessed, we use the COORDS attribute. For a rectangle, we have
to pass the COORDS attribute the top left and bottom right corners of our
linking area.
How do we find these coordinates? Most image editing
programs, such as Paint Shop Pro (free to try, my personal favorite!) show you
what coordinates you're pointing at on the image. The first coordinate is the "x" or horizontal coordinate,
and the second is the "y"
or vertical coordinate (just like in algebra class!). I have already opened up
my image in Paint Shop Pro and collected that the top left coordinates in the
rectangle area of my image (the one surrounding "Disclaimer") are 30
(the "x" coordinate), and
30 (the "y" coordinate). I
also got the bottom right coordinates, 194, 69. Now that we've done the hard
part (getting the coordinates) all we have to do is pass them to the COORDS attribute. In our area tag, it
looks like this:
<AREA SHAPE="rect"
COORDS="30,30 , 194,69">
Whew! That's the most
work we've done in this whole tutorial! But we're not done yet; we still need
to pass where we want this section of our image to point to.
If we want our
rectangle area to point somewhere, we're going to have to use one more attribute:
HREF. The HREF attribute simply takes the Hypertext Reference (also called a
link) that you want to use in this area as an argument. So our complete
<AREA> tag looks like this:
<AREA SHAPE="rect"
COORDS="30,30 , 194,69" HREF="../Home ">
(Note: Because our
Disclaimer page is in the directory above the current one, if we use relative
linking we need to add a '../' before our page name.)
So far we've flagged
off the rectangular portion surrounding "Disclaimer" in our image to
point to the page "disclaimer.html".
But what about that circular portion around "Home"? This one's a
simple switch, but let's take it one attribute at a time to make sure we get
it.
The SHAPE attribute's
argument has to change from "rect"
to "circle", since we're no longer flagging off a rectangular
area and now using a circular area. To get our coordinates, we're going to have
to fire up the old graphics editing program. This time there are no corners to
find, so we need to get the coordinates of the center of the circle and its
radius (in pixels).
For those of you who didn’t take geometry in high school
(shame on you!) the radius of a circle is the distance from the center of the
circle to any point on the edge of the circle. Paint Shop Pro tells me that the
center of my circle's coordinate's are 204, 106. It also tells me that the
circle's radius is 57. Knowing this, we can change our <AREA> tag to look like this:
<AREA SHAPE="circle"
COORDS="204,106 , 57" HREF="../home">
(Note: The "home.html"
page, like the "home.html" page, is in the directory above the
current one.)
You may notice that
the circle and rectangle overlap a little bit. When there are overlapping
area's in an image map, the area that is defined in the source HTML first is
considered "on top". So if you click on the overlapping area and our
rectangle was the first <AREA> tag in the source HTML, you
would be taken to the Disclaimer page.
Wait just one minute!
The last area in our image is a triangle? But the SHAPE attribute does'nt take
"triangle" as an argument! How do we get around this? With the use of
the "poly" argument of course!
The "poly"
(or polygon) argument to the SHAPE attribute is used to define areas that are
not rectangles or circles. In fact, you can define up to a 100 cornered polygon
with the "poly" argument! The poly argument simply takes the
coordinates of all the corners in the polygon, and connects them, dot to dot
style. Since our lovely triangle has three corners, it has three coordinate
pairs: 355,108 (top), 291,174 (bottom left) and 421,174 (bottom right). If we
put them into our complete <AREA> tag, it looks like this:
<AREA SHAPE="poly"
COORDS="355,108 , 291,174 , 421,174" HREF="../home">
Note that the browser automatically connects the last
coordinate pair to the first coordinate pair to complete our polygon.
Now we have a complete image map, but what if we want the
parts of our image that do'nt point anywhere yet to lead somewhere? That's
where the "default" argument to the SHAPE attribute comes in. We
could make "default" point somewhere, like this:
<AREA SHAPE="default"
HREF="../home.html">
This would make the area not in the circle, rectangle or
triangle point to "home.html" in the directory above the current one.
But since I do'nt want this part of the image to point anywhere right now, I
use the NOHREF attribute, which simply says "no link in this area!".
Our completed image
map code looks like this:
<MAP NAME="newmap">
<AREA SHAPE="rect"
COORDS="30,30 , 194,69" HREF="../home.html">
<AREA SHAPE="circle"
COORDS="204,106 , 57" HREF="../home.html">
<AREA SHAPE="poly"
COORDS="355,108 , 291,174 , 421,174" HREF="../home.html">
<AREA SHAPE="default" NOHREF>
</MAP>
To put our image map
on the page we use an <IMG> tag with the USEMAP attribute. The USEMAP
attribute tells the browser "use this image map". In this example,
we're going to pass USEMAP the map that we made and named "new map",
like this:
<IMG SRC="imagemap1.gif"
USEMAP="#newmap">
Where imagemap1.gif is the name of my image. Take a look at
how we had to put a "#" in front of the name of our map. This is
because when you name a map, you flag it off so we can call it later. The
"#" tells the browser that we're going to be using a certain part of
an html page. Knowing this, we can use image maps from other pages like this:
Complete image map looks like this. I did not make now my own image but you can test it in your own computer follow by this tutorial.
<HTML>
<BODY>
<IMG SRC="imagemap1.gif"
USEMAP="#newmap"> // our call page in image map
<MAP
NAME="newmap">
<AREA
SHAPE="rect" COORDS="30,30 , 194,69" HREF="../home.html">
<AREA
SHAPE="circle" COORDS="204,106 , 57" HREF="../home.html">
<AREA
SHAPE="poly" COORDS="355,108 , 291,174 , 421,174" HREF=”home.html">
<AREA
SHAPE="default" NOHREF>
</MAP>
</BODY>
</HTML>
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