Highlighting given area in an image map

[Anna]

Hi all.
I hope this is the right group for my question.
If not, please tell me, where can I ask this.

I wrote a client-side image map, using <img>, <map> and <area> tags.
I want to be able, given an area tag, somehow highligh the part
in the image map that uses this area tag, e.g., put a border on
this part of an image, using CSS, etc.
This will happen in a dynamically generated content.

My question is: is this doable? Can I at all draw (with CSS) something
on the image, given the coords of the area?
And if it is possible, how can I do it?

I hope that my explanation is clear.

Thank you very much for help.

Anna

[Zak McGregor]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 14:35:43 +0200, Anna <"Anna" <an**@ubaccess.com>>
wrote:

My question is: is this doable? Can I at all draw (with CSS) something
on the image, given the coords of the area? And if it is possible, how
can I do it?

I suspect that you could use a combination of positioned elements and the
visibility property to get this working, although as I see it you'll not
be able to do this in pure css without javascript. You'd probably have
the best shot of success if the css positioning is generated by whatever
generates the image map instead of looking to work out the areas in any
other way.

Good luck.

Ciao

Zak
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[Anna]

Hi Zak.
Thanks for answering.

My problem is that the image map that I work on, is not mine,
I will retrieve it dynamically from somebody elses server.

Can you say a little bit more about how can I accomplish this in CSS?
I tried positioning, but with no success.

Thank you very much for help.

Anna

Zak McGregor <za*@mighty.co.za> wrote in message news:<bf**********@ctb-nnrp2.saix.net>...

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 14:35:43 +0200, Anna <"Anna" <an**@ubaccess.com>>
wrote:

My question is: is this doable? Can I at all draw (with CSS) something
on the image, given the coords of the area? And if it is possible, how
can I do it?

I suspect that you could use a combination of positioned elements and the
visibility property to get this working, although as I see it you'll not
be able to do this in pure css without javascript. You'd probably have
the best shot of success if the css positioning is generated by whatever
generates the image map instead of looking to work out the areas in any
other way.

Good luck.

Ciao

Zak