Re: Image Maps

by dflem(at)ix.netcom.com
Date:	Tue, 30 Dec 1997 14:21:12 -0600 (CST)
To:	tembler(at)softcom.net
	todo: View Thread, Original
The other possibility is to use MapEdit. It will automatically make client 
side image maps and very nicely put the coordinates in your html page.
Dan Fleming
On 12/29/97 16:09:16 you wrote:
>
>>Subject: Image Maps
>>Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 13:54:19 -0800
>
>>Hi.  I am having some trouble with Image Maps.  I am using Map This and 
>it
>>looks like they will work but when I insert them in my page it says 
>that it
>>doesn't have a plugin for it.  
>
>I never got it to work right. 
>
>>Is there a special way I have to put the
>>image map in my html file?  Also what is the best format save the 
>>image map in? 
>
>Try using a client-side image map, instead of making a separate 
>document. To do this, you need to use the <map> tag. You define the 
>coordinates in the html itself, and it will work on most browsers, since 
>it is now standard HTML. 
>
>The format looks something like this :
>
><MAP NAME="map">
><AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="1,299,64,334" HREF="myfile.html">
><AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="-5,259,54,288" HREF="hisfile.html">
><AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="-7,207,91,243" HREF="herfile.html">
></MAP>
><IMG SRC="file.gif" BORDER="0" ISMAP USEMAP="#map">
>
>You can use the coordinates you got with MapThis!, and simply do some 
>cutting and pasting, if you don't know how to define the coordinates.
>
>>One more question how can I set it up so a Image Map will open a new
>>page in a frame?  I know how to do it with an html link but how do I 
>>do it on a image map?  
>
>Just set a base target on the page where the image map is, maybe at the 
>top. It works just the same as in a regular html link. Supposing the 
>frame you want to point your links to is called main, you would do this 
>(with very bad HTML ;):
>
><HTML>
><HEAD>
><TITLE>...</TITLE>
><BASE TARGET="main">
></HEAD>
><BODY>
><MAP NAME="map">
><AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="1,299,64,334" HREF="myfile.html">
><AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="-5,259,54,288" HREF="hisfile.html">
><AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="-7,207,91,243" HREF="herfile.html">
></MAP>
><IMG SRC="file.gif" BORDER="0" ISMAP USEMAP="#map">
></BODY>
></HTML>
>
>Hope this helps you out. =)
>
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