Drag/Drop with Image Maps

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Adam

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Jul 15, 2008, 6:47:19 AM7/15/08
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Hi all,

Is it possible to use HTML area objects from an image map as
droppables for a drag/drop interface? I want to get a different
response depending on which part of an image I drop a draggable div
object on. The context is creating an incident report form where
injuries can be dragged onto a body sketch. I've tried this using the
code below. However, the droppable is always identified as
"front_head", the first area object, no matter which part of the image
is dropped on. Has anyone managed to get this working successfully?

Many thanks,
Adam

<%= image_tag "body_sketch_front.gif", :usemap => "#front" -%>

<map id="front_map" name="front">
<area id="front_head" shape="circle" coords="100,30,20"
href="#" alt="head" title="head"></area>
<area id="front_torso" shape="rect" coords="70,70,120,150" href="#"
title="torso"></area>
</map>

<div id="injury_1" class="injury">punch</div>
<div id="injury_2" class="injury">kick</div>

<div id="description"></div>

<script type="text/javascript">
$$(".injury").each(function(el){
new Draggable(el,{revert:true});
})
$$('#front_map area').each(function(el){
Droppables.add(el,{
accept:'injury',
onHover:function(drag,drop){
// Some function to let us know what's
going on
$('description').innerHTML=drag.title + " on " + drop.title;
},
onDrop:function(drag, drop){
// Some function to respond to the
dropped injury
alert("Dropped "+drag.id+"on"+el.id)
}
})
})
</script>
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