jquery.dynamic.imagemap

A jQuery plugin to create dynamic elements to be placed over image map area tag by using the coordinates in corresponding area tag. This plugin can be useful when server responds with some coordinates on image and need to create some custom element which will placed on top of image with respect to these coordinates. Here coordinates data are given from server side to area tag "coords" attribute.

Demo

See Demo here.

Installation

Using NPM

npm install dynamic-imagemap

Using Bower

bower install dynamic-imagemap

Getting Started

Usage

Javascript

$(document).ready(function() {
	$('#first-image').dynamicImageMap({
        areas: $('#first-map area') /* Area tags inside of image corresponding map tag */
    });

    /* Here image "usemap" attribute is checked to find the area tags */
	$('#second-image').dynamicImageMap();

	/* Here maps array is used to create dynamic map elements */
	$('#third-image').dynamicImageMap({
		maps: [ 
		   { coords: '6,116,97,184', classes: 'rect', style: 'background: green', content: '<span>Rect</span>', href: '#' },
		   { coords: '251,143,47', classes: 'circle', style: 'background: yellow;text-align: center', content: '<span>Circle</span>' }
	   ]
	});
});

HTML

<img id="first-image" src="planets.gif" width="145" height="126" alt="Planets" usemap="#planetmap">

<map id="first-map" name="planetmap">
  <area shape="rect" coords="0,0,82,126" data-style="background: red"  alt="Sun" href="sun.htm">
  <area shape="circle" coords="90,58,3" data-class="mercury" data-style="background: yellow" alt="Mercury" href="mercur.htm">
  <area shape="circle" coords="124,58,8" data-class="venus"  data-style="background: green" alt="Venus" href="venus.htm">
</map>

Documentation

The dynamicImageMap method will accept one optional object argument.

Optional object parameter

• areas : The area tags selector that used for image map.

areas: $('#first-map area')

• maps : An array of objects to create custom map elements. The array object have following properties.
  • coords : The coordinates for create elements.
  • classes : The classes for created elements.
  • style : The styles for created elements.
  • content : The content part(html tags allowed) for created elements.
  • href : The anchor href part for created elements.

maps: [ 
		   { coords: '6,116,97,184', classes: '', style: 'background: green', content: '<span>Rect</span>', href: '#' },
		   { coords: '251,143,47', classes: '', style: 'background: yellow;text-align: center', content: '<span>Circle</span>' }
	   ]

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Pass data attributes options

The area tag can have some data attributes in HTML which is used to pass data to custom created dynamic elements. The following are data attributes

• data-class : The class names that passed to custom created element.
• data-style : The styles that passed to custom created element.
• data-content : The inner html that passed to custom created element.

<area shape="circle" coords="251,143,47" data-class="venus"  data-style="background: blue" data-content="<b>Venus</b>" alt="Venus" href="venus.htm">

A wrapper div container is placed automatically created on image on method call. We can pass class and style to container using data attributes in image tag.

• data-class : The class names that passed to wrapper of image element.
• data-style : The styles that passed to wrapper of image element.

<img id="four-image" src="planets.gif" width="145" data-class="venus"  data-style="border: 1px solid #000"  height="126">

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An example is placed in example folder. Please take map.html in web browser to see what happens with plugin usage.

Notes

The v0.0.1 only supports area tags with shape "circle" and "rect". The "poly" area shape is still not supported. The v.1.0 introduces dynamic passing of coordinates directly to method instead of passing in area tags.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2017 Justin John Mathews justinjohnmathews@gmail.com