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

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

Purpose: – Illustrates the for the .

View Other Anchor Object Properties and Methods

Prerequistes:

Syntax: object.coords=coords – Allows you to retrieve or assign coords for links in an image map.

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 coordsuage
    • 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 coords to AnchorObjectProperties subfolder
    • Right-click AnchorObjectProperties subfolder;
    • add new item;
    • Select HTML Page
    • HTML Page name should be coords
  8. Click on copy code in code below to copy code into HTML Page coords.htm
  9. Right-click on HTML page coords.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: coords</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="rect" coords="100,0,200,100" href="charset.htm" alt="charset" />
 
</map>
<script type="text/javascript">
 
    //*****************************************************
    // DOM Objects
    //*****************************************************
 
 
    //*****************************************************
    //    ***    Anchor Object Property   ***
    //*****************************************************
 
    //*****************************************************
    // coords
    //*****************************************************
 
    //    SYNTAX:
    //    anchorObject.coords=coordinates  Allows you to access a comma-separated list
    //               of a link in an image map.
 
    // Two ways to retrieve coords   
    //   1. GetElementsByTagName
    myObject = document.getElementsByTagName('area')[0];
    document.write("accessKey - Using getElementsByTagName : " + myObject.coords);
    document.write("<br />");
    //   2. GetElementById
    document.write("charset - Using getElementById: ");
    document.write(document.getElementById('charset').coords);
 
    document.write("<br /><br />");
    // Two ways to assign coords
 
    //   1. GetElementById
    myFirstLink = document.getElementById('accessKey');
    myFirstLink.coords = "0,0,90,90";
    document.write("<br />accessKey charset changed to 0,0,90,90: ", myFirstLink.coords);
 
    //   2. GetElementsByTagName      
    mySecondLink = document.getElementsByTagName('area')[1];
    mySecondLink.coords = "105,5,200,100";
    document.write("<br />charset changed to 105,5,200,100: ", mySecondLink.coords)
 
 
</script>
 
 
  </body>
</html>