4.13.2 Example of image map definition and notes

(1) Example of image map definition

The operations to use the image map are as follows:

1. Set the following directives in the httpsd.conf file. Execute the image map when .map extension name is specified in URL.

   AddHandler imap-file .map 

   (Define the imap-file handler in the file extension .map)

2. Define a link destination in the file with the extension defined above.

3. Describe the following HTML syntax in HTML document.

   <A HREF="/directory name/map file name"><IMG SRC="image data name" ISMAP></A>

The following figure shows an example of image map file definition and actual display:

Figure 4‒14: Example of image map file definition

In this example, if you click on the part specified with poly, the following map file menu is displayed:

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(2) Note

If the character set used in the map file menu differs from the default character set (ISO-8859-1), characters will become garbled in the map file menu display. In this case, specify the character set used in the map file menu in the HWSImapMenuCharset directive.

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