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JavaScript can be used to create a client-side image map. An image map is an image on the webpage that has multiple links to other pages. These links are called hotspots. An image map is used to navigate different links to other pages or on the same web page.
In HTML and XHTML, an image map is a list of coordinates relating to a specific image, created in order to hyperlink areas of the image to different destinations (as opposed to a normal image link, in which the entire area of the image links to a single destination).
In Web page development, an image map is a graphic image defined so that a user can click on different areas of the image and be linked to different destinations. With each set of coordinates, you specify a Uniform Resource Locator or Web address that will be linked to when the user clicks on that area.
Chapter Summary
Image maps allow you to make certain areas of an image into links. There are two types of image maps; server side and client side.
An image map is positional information XHTML and HTML which has details of coordinates related to a unique image. Unlike a normal image link where the entire area of image is linked to a single destination, an image map is created to hyperlink sections in image to different destinations.
Client-side imagemaps are clickable images that don’t require a CGI program to make them work. Instead, the browser interprets the imagemap based on HTML tags. Because they are faster and more reliable, client-side imagemaps have largely supplanted server-side imagemaps.
You can use JavaScript to create client side image map.
addEventListener(‘resize’, () => map. getViewPort(). resize()); The above code will capture the resize event of the browser and instruct the map to resize to the new window dimensions.
ToMap Command: The main command we will be using is /tomap . You can resize the maps by adding the width and height after the keyword resize, for example /tomap url resize 2 4.
Loads an image from a URL onto a map….Quick guide