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JavaScript (JS) coords Example

Description: Illustrates the JavaScript syntax for the Area Object coords Property .

Syntax: AreaObject.coords="coordinates of shape" – Allows you to access coordinates of an AreaObject

JavaScript (JS) coords Example Code:

 < !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 *
        ***************************************************
        Note:
        coords for rect = "upperleftx,upperlefty,bottomrightx,bottomrighty"
        coords for circle = x,y,r where x and y are center and r is radius
        coords for poly = x1,y1,x2,y2,...
        -->
       </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="Area1" shape="rect" coords="0,0,100,100" href="http://www.google.com" alt="google" accesskey="1" />
    <area id="Area2" shape="rect" coords="100,0,200,100" href="http://www.yahoo.com" alt="yahoo" accesskey="2" />
    <area id="Area3" shape="rect" coords="0,100,100,200" href="http://idealprogrammer.com" alt="idealprogrammer" accesskey="3" />
    <area id="Area4" shape="rect" coords="100,100,200,200" href="http://progressmonitor.com" alt="progressmonitor" accesskey="4" />
 
    </map>
    <script type="text/javascript">
 
        //*****************************************************
        // DOM Objects
        //*****************************************************
 
 
        //*****************************************************
        //    ***    Area Object Property   ***
        //*****************************************************
 
        //*****************************************************
        // coords
        //*****************************************************
 
        //    SYNTAX:
        //    areaObject.coords=coordinates  Allows you to access a comma-separated list
        //               of a areaObject in an image map.
 
        // Two ways to retrieve coords   
        //   1. GetElementsByTagName
        myObject = document.getElementsByTagName('area')[0];
        document.write("Area1 - Using getElementsByTagName : " + myObject.coords);
        document.write("<br />");
        //   2. GetElementById
        document.write("Area2 - Using getElementById: ");
        document.write(document.getElementById('Area2').coords);
 
        document.write("<br /><br />");
        // Two ways to assign coords
 
        //   1. GetElementById
        myArea3 = document.getElementById('Area3');
        myArea3.coords = "0,99,100,200";
        document.write("<br />Area3 changed to 0,99,100,200: ", myArea3.coords);
 
        //   2. GetElementsByTagName      
        myArea4 = document.getElementsByTagName('area')[3];
        myArea4.coords = "100,100,199,199";
        document.write("<br />Area4 changed to 100,100,199,199: ", myArea4.coords)
 
 
    </script>
 
 
      </body>
    </html>