Javascript for the World Wide Web: Visual Quickstart Guide, Fifth Edition

Chapter 5. More Fun with Images

In Chapter 4, you mastered rollovers, the most common usage of JavaScript with images. But you can do much more than rollovers with JavaScript, and that's what you'll find in this chapter.

Images give Web pages life, and you can use JavaScript to automatically change images, create ad banners, build slideshows, display random images on a page, and even use a rollover in conjunction with an image map to give the user some interesting interface choices. Let's get started.

Table 5.1. Just Enough HTML—Images

TAG	ATTRIBUTE	MEANING
map		Contains the area elements defining the links and locations for image maps
	name	The identifier used by the usemap attribute of the img tag
area		Defines the elements of the image map
	shape	Defines ...