I have been trying to get the well known client side image maps working. I would really like to use percentages (all the co-ordinates will be generated by PHP so the difficultly with values vs percentages doesn't exist!). However, I can not get percentages to work - browsers just appear to ignore the percentage sign.
Am I missing something or is this another very useful item that browsers will just not bother with?
The reason for using percentages is so that I can make the img 100% width of container and the image map still works - by the specifications this should be possible but I can't get it to work.
Here's some code to show!
CODE
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>A test of image maps</title>
</head>
<body>
<img src="test.bmp" usemap="#mymap" height="400" width="200" alt="test image"/>
<map name="mymap" id="mymap">
<area shape="rect" coords="0,0, 50%, 50%" href="http://www.htmlhelp.com" alt="A nice link"/>
</map>
</body>
</html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>A test of image maps</title>
</head>
<body>
<img src="test.bmp" usemap="#mymap" height="400" width="200" alt="test image"/>
<map name="mymap" id="mymap">
<area shape="rect" coords="0,0, 50%, 50%" href="http://www.htmlhelp.com" alt="A nice link"/>
</map>
</body>
</html>
test.bmp is any image, and the top left quarter of the image should be a link to this site (just for demonstration purposes
)Thanks in advance,
Alan
