Creating image with hyperlink using google-apps-script - image

I have been trying to put an image with a hyperlink on it into a google apps script ui. I first thought of using createAnchor(), but that only allows text. Then I thought of using a button, but as far as I know you cannot open a new tab/window and redirect in a callback function.
I also tried createHTML(), but the element is not handled by it as yet.
I have seen people overlay transparent buttons over images, but still have same issue in callback.
My research has not found an answer to this. Does anyone have any solutions/examples?
Thanks

This worked for me on Chrome20 and IE9
// Container for box and results
var imageContainer = app.createFlexTable();
// Setup the button
var button = app.createButton("ImageButton");
button.setStyleAttribute("background", "url(dontshowimagehere.JPG) no-repeat");
button.setStyleAttribute("position", "absolute");
button.setStyleAttribute("color", "transparent");
button.setStyleAttribute('zIndex','1');
button.setStyleAttribute("border", "0px solid black");
imageContainer.setWidget(0, 0, button);
// image to click
var image = app.createImage("image.jpg").setId(imageId);
imageContainer.setWidget(1,0, image);
The image has a slight (3px) offset. If important, this looks to fix it http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_positioning.asp (use relative for the flex table and top etc for the image and button)

Did you try a transparent Anchor overlaying the image?
function doGet() {
var app = UiApp.createApplication().setTitle("Image Anchor");
var panel = app.createAbsolutePanel().setWidth('50%').setHeight('50%');
var image = app.createImage().setUrl("https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-v0Q3gPQz03Q/T_y5gcVw7LI/AAAAAAAAAF8/ol9uup7Xm2g/s512/GooglePlus-512-Red.png").setStyleAttribute("width", "28px").setStyleAttribute("height", "28px");
var anchor = app.createAnchor("?", "https://plus.google.com/u/1/116085534841818923812/posts").setHeight("28px").setWidth("28px").setStyleAttribute("opacity", "0.1").setTarget("blank");
panel.add(image,100,50);
panel.add(anchor,100,50);
app.add(panel);
return app.close();
}

app.createAbsolutePanel()
.add(app.createImage('https://www.google.com/images/logos/google_logo_41.png'))
.add(app.createAnchor('','https://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/about/')
.setStyleAttributes({position:'absolute',top:'0px',left:'0px',width:'201px',height:'47px',opacity:'0'}))
This is a tested one. It works fine.
It doesn't work with positioning the image (as 'absolute').
It doesn't work with .setHorizontalAlignment(UiApp.HorizontalAlignment.CENTER)

I don't believe this is possible with the widgets available. I would suggest altering your UI's design to utilize an Anchor widget instead.

Use HTML Box if you are coding directly on your page. Click "Edit" to edit your page and go to "Insert>HTML Box" in your menu. It will accept javascript too! There are a few caveats - when using javascript, HTML Box will not accept links...too bad, but too many exploits there.
If you are coding in apps script, you could try to place the image on a panel and use absolute panel and position your link over your image. Another method could be to use the .setStyleAttribute for CSS styling and utilize the zIndex parameter to place a panel over top of your image....like so:
var panel = app.createSimplePanel();
// add your image to the simple panel or whatever panel you wish to choose in your GUI
var popPanel = app.createSimplePanel()
.setStyleAttribute('top','Y')
.setStyleAttribute('left','X')
.setStyleAttribute('zIndex','1')
.setStyleAttribute('position','fixed');
// add your anchor to the popPanel
app.add(panel).add(popPanel);
Not 100% sure if you can make this panel transparent, but you could try something like:
.setStyleAttribute('background',transparent')
or change the opacity via:
.setStyleAttribute('opacity','.5')
Hopes this gives you a few ideas!

I managed to do it with a single Anchor object and using CSS3.
It works on Chrome, I did not test it in other Browsers.
gui.createAnchor("", false, "$DESTINATION_URL$")
.setStyleAttributes({ "display":"block",
"width":"$IMAGE_WIDTH_IN_PIXEL$",
"height":"$IMAGE_HEIGHT_IN_PIXEL$",
"background":"url($URL_OF_THE_IMAGE$)",
"background-size":"100% 100%",
"background-repeat":"no-repeat" })
Of course you have to replace the $......$ with your data.
Thierry

If you first create all your HTML in a string, you can then replace the content of a page with the HTML you want like this:
var myString = 'the html you want to add, for example you image link and button';
var page = SitesApp.getSite('example.com', 'mysite').getChildByName('targetpage');
var upage = page.setHtmlContent('<div>' + myString + '</div>');

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first add the anchor's title (you will have to modify your function)
and then change its (negative for the covering element) z-index (effectively putting the anchor in the foreground)
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Or you could simply use setAttributeNode to modify the title attribute value.
You said
"The problem is, when I hover over the
link, and then stop moving the cursor,
the title attribute is set properly,
but the tooltip is not shown."
Its likely that because the title did not exist when you started the mouse hover, it could not display any tooltip (there was nothing to display). So no tooltip will appear. When you move the mouse again, this time it does have a title attribute, so it can display a tooltip. Theres not much you can do about that, its just how the browser works.
Instead your could try using a jQuery tooltip: http://www.reynoldsftw.com/2009/03/10-excellent-tooltip-plugins-with-jquery/
With jQuery you should be able control it so that a tooltip appears as soon as the title is set.

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