Low Bandwidth Rollovers: Click Effect in IE

Low Bandwidth Rollovers:
creating a click effect for IE with a third image

If you are using Explorer 4, click on the image map below.

This pinch effect is, of course, created by clipping a third overlayed image whenever the mousedown and mouseup events fire over an AREA.

First, prepare a third image with the pinch effect:

Add the CSS element:

    #elMenuDown {
        position: absolute;
        visibility: hidden;
        top: 0;
        left: 0
    }

Add a new string variable for the third image you've created:

if (IE4) {
    thirdIm = "<IMG SRC='menudown.gif' USEMAP='#mpMenu' WIDTH=468 HEIGHT=18 BORDER=0>";
}
else { thirdIm = "" }
Add the function:
function mapDown(which,on) {
    if (!IE4) { return }
    whichEl = document.all.elMenuDown.style;
    if (!on) { whichEl.visibility = "hidden"; return }
    clLeft = arPopups[which][0];
    clRight = arPopups[which][1];
    whichEl.clip = "rect(" + clTop + " " + clRight + " " + clBot + " " + clLeft + ")";
    whichEl.visibility = "visible" 
}
Insert your new image as a CSS element, nested in 
elMenu and after 
elMenuOver, dynamically with JavaScript:
<DIV ID="elMenuDown">
    <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">document.write(thirdIm)</SCRIPT>
</DIV>
And finally, modify the  MAP's 7 links to include the two events:
onMouseDown="mapDown(linkNumber,true)" onMouseUp="mapDown(linkNumber,false)"
Rollover with 1 (one) Image
You read that correctly. Just 1, but it's a cheat, in a way.
If you're still with us, read on! 
  


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Created: 08/06/97

Revised: 10/16/97 
URL: https://www.webreference.com/dhtml/column2/IEdown.html