I would like to create a map with different regions. When regions are rolled over that region lights up and links to that specific region.
Is it best to use HTML image map?
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By map, do you mean geographical map? Or map of areas on an image?– BradCommented May 1, 2012 at 20:16
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Possible duplicate of stackoverflow.com/q/745110/901048– BlazemongerCommented May 1, 2012 at 20:23
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"Best" is a highly relative concept, in this case.
HTML image maps are considered 'deprecated' by many developers, even though they're not. While CSS-positioned overlays works well, and sometimes better, with rectangular regions, image maps are uniquely suited for dealing with circular and/or polygonal areas.
However, if you want the image to 'light up' when you mouse over a particular area, you have a tricky problem. Certainly it's possible to approach this with only images and CSS/JavaScript -- I wrote a jQuery plugin to automate this process for a job last year -- but other plugins exist that handle it using SVG/Canvas graphics.
The leading plugin is here.
answered May 1, 2012 at 20:19
