image map area background color

[Zarcom]

Hi I was wondering if it is possible to set the color or an <Area> shape? What I would like is for a transparent color to reside in the <Area> shape. On certain circumstances (server side) that color may change so the area be more noticable. The user still needs to be able to see the image underneath thoug.

Thanks for your help That'l do donkey, that'l do
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[EdwardMartinIII]

Make your image a GIF with transparency.

Cheers,
Edward

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[Zarcom]

uh huh but how do I set the color of the <area.. tag.

You know

<MAP NAME=&quot;map&quot;>
<AREA ID=&quot;M1&quot; SHAPE=&quot;POLY&quot; HREF=&quot;M1.jpg&quot; ALT=&quot;M1&quot; COORDS=&quot;215,37, 237,37, 237,55, 215,56, 215,37&quot; color=&quot;#00ff00&quot;>
</Map>


'cept the color bit doesn't work. That'l do donkey, that'l do
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[EdwardMartinIII]

I suppose you could try specifying the class in an external stylesheet (I don't know if you can do that), but a transparent GIF will just take the color of the area behind it -- the map area isn't relevant. It would be like trying to change the color inside the top half of an &quot;R&quot; character. You can't bust your GIF up into separate chunks and have a different color behind each chunk.

A way to simulate that is to have the mouseover event be a little more specific, such that it loads a unique file based on the mouse position. So, you have your imagemap, and on the mouseover event, you feed the mouse coordinates to a function that figures out in which region the mouse is located and then loads the appropriate new-image for the mouseover. For example, you have a map of the US and the lakes are transparent. You'll need one image that is AllUnhighlighted.gif and ArizonaHighlighted.gif and AlaskaHighlighted.gif and AlabamaHighlighted.gif, etc.

I might be wrong, though.

Cheers,
Edward

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[ryugeki]

So wat is the answer here? has anyone found the answer? i ve this problem too..i ve tried using class or inline styles to either add a background-color or image but they dont work..

 

[Zarcom]

You can do as Edward suggested and swap the image on click. I ditched the idea completely as it would not be worth it in my situation

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[ryugeki]

His idea is not feasible to the situation. I need to have different colors for some specific hot areas and they depend on my database. Does anyone faced the same situation and has managed to turn it around?