JavaScript (JS) shape Example: HTML DOM Objects – Anchor Object – JavaScript (JS) shape Example

JavaScript (JS) shape Example: HTML DOM Objects – Anchor Object – JavaScript (JS) shape Example

Purpose: – Illustrates the for the .

View Other Anchor Object Properties and Methods

Prerequistes:

Syntax: object.shape=RECT|CIRCLE|POLY|DEFAULT – Allows you to retrieve or assign shape for linked objects.

Restrictions: None

Notes:

  • You can build your own library of syntax examples by using same web site over and over and just add new files to it.

Instructions:

  1. Use Visual Web Developer 2008
  2. Create new web site;
    • Click File/New Web Site
    • Select ASP.NET Website Template
    • Select C-Sharp for hrefuage
    • name of Web Site could be JavaScript_Syntax.
  3. Folder

  4. Add New folder named “HTMLDOMObjects”
    • Right-click project name in solution explorer;
    • add new folder;
    • name of folder should be: HTMLDOMObjects
  5. Add New subfolder to “HTMLDOMObjects” folder named “DOMAnchor”
    • Right-click folder named “HTMLDOMObjects” in solution explorer;
    • add new folder;
    • name of folder should be: DOMAnchor
  6. Add New subfolder to “DOMAnchor” subfolder named “AnchorObjectProperties”
    • Right-click subfolder named “DOMAnchor” in solution explorer;
    • add new folder;
    • name of folder should be: AnchorObjectProperties
  7. Add HTML Page Named shape to AnchorObjectProperties subfolder
    • Right-click AnchorObjectProperties subfolder;
    • add new item;
    • Select HTML Page
    • HTML Page name should be shape
  8. Click on copy code in code below to copy code into HTML Page shape.htm
  9. Right-click on HTML page shape.htm and select view in browser
View Example In Browser
    < !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
 
    <html>
      <head>
        <title>IdealProgrammer.com: shape</title>
        <!-- 
        ***************************************************
        * This example is from http://idealprogrammer.com *
        ***************************************************
        -->
       </head>
      <body>
      <a href="http://idealprogrammer.com">Ideal Programmer</a><br /><br />
    <img src ="http://idealprogrammer.com/wp-photos/goldbottle.jpg" width="200" height="200" alt="Planets"
    usemap ="#goldmap" /><br /> <br />
 
    <map name="goldmap" id="goldmapid">
    <area id="accessKey" shape="rect" coords="0,0,100,100" href="accessKey.htm" alt="accessKey" />
    <area id="charset" shape="default" coords="100,0,200,100" href="charset.htm" alt="charset" />
 
    </map>
    <script type="text/javascript">
 
        //*****************************************************
        // DOM Objects
        //*****************************************************
 
 
        //*****************************************************
        //    ***    Anchor Object Property   ***
        //*****************************************************
 
        //*****************************************************
        // shape
        //*****************************************************
 
        //    SYNTAX:
        //    anchorObject.shape=RECT|CIRCLE|POLY|DEFAULT  Allows you to access the shape
        //               of a link in an image map.
 
        // Two ways to retrieve shape   
        //   1. GetElementsByTagName
        myObject = document.getElementsByTagName('area')[0];
        document.write("accessKey - Using getElementsByTagName : " + myObject.shape);
        document.write("<br />");
        //   2. GetElementById
        document.write("charset - Using getElementById: ");
        document.write(document.getElementById('charset').shape);
 
        document.write("<br /><br />");
        // Two ways to assign shape
 
        //   1. GetElementById
        myFirstLink = document.getElementById('accessKey');
        myFirstLink.shape = "rect";
        document.write("<br />Shape changed to rect: ", myFirstLink.shape);
 
        //   2. GetElementsByTagName      
        mySecondLink = document.getElementsByTagName('area')[1];
        mySecondLink.shape = "rect";
        document.write("<br />Shape changed to rect: ", mySecondLink.shape)
 
 
    </script>
 
 
      </body>
    </html>