How to use javascript to to select an area?

[david1661]

Hi,

i want to let the user to select an rectangle area over a picture in my homepage, how can i achieve that using javascript?

thx

[Khalid Ali]

You will need to do some calculations.

What you can do is get the mouse pointer locations at mousedown and then get x and y co-ords until mouse is up and from those values you can create a right rectangle