Hey, i have a background i want to use for my website and in the background i have a picture of a doc file (paper).. Id like to have it so when you click on the paper it opens up the .doc file. Could someone give me some insight on how to do this please.. Thanks

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Use image map..? haha..

HTML MAP TAG

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haha oh ok thanks... is there an easy way to tell the coordinates of where you wanna place the button if your using a big picture?? thanks for the help

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I have moved this thread to the HTML forum and given it an appropriate title.

Now, about your question. You cannot apply an image map to a background image. If you need to have your body's background image clickable in only a certain area (the whole area would me an onClick for the BODY tag), then I'd suggest one of these options:

1) Place an <a> tag over the clickable part. For the body you could either use &nbsp; or a blank image.

2) Don't use the body background as a clickable element. Instead, take the part you want clickable and put it in an <a> tag and position it where you want.

3) If you want to get really advanced, you could check the onClick's event handler for where on the page a click occurred and then direct the user to the proper page if they have clicked within the desired zone. NOTE: I said this is advanced, so don't expect to be able to do it if you're not fully competent in javascript and fairly good at figuring out if you're within a closed object. NOTE: This has a disadvantage; namely, as javascript is used for navigation, the resulting page will not be indexed as a result. You could overcome this by placing a link somewhere else on your site to the target page.

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i got the image map to do what i wanted by making the picture larger so it takes up the entire page.. But now will i be able to embed or overlay a video over this??

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k so im using a quicktime movie and id like to get the movie on or over a specific spot on the image map is there any way i can do this??? please help and thankyou..

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because "object" elements are always topmost in the HTML document z-index, any elements below the movie will be "unclickable". So you would have to use the javascript solution that Jeremy outlined.

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