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+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+    <head>
+        <title>OpenLayers Boxes Example</title>
+        <style type="text/css">
+            #map {
+                width: 512px;
+                height: 512px;
+                border: 1px solid black;
+            }
+        </style>
+        <script src="../lib/OpenLayers.js"></script>
+        <script type="text/javascript">
+            var box_extents = [
+                [-10, 50, 5, 60],
+                [-75, 41, -71, 44],
+                [-122.6, 37.6, -122.3, 37.9],
+                [10, 10, 20, 20]
+            ];
+            var map;
+            function init(){
+                map = new OpenLayers.Map('map');
+
+                var ol_wms = new OpenLayers.Layer.WMS( "OpenLayers WMS",
+                    "http://labs.metacarta.com/wms/vmap0?", {layers: 'basic'} );
+
+                var boxes  = new OpenLayers.Layer.Vector( "Boxes" );
+    
+                for (var i = 0; i < box_extents.length; i++) {
+                    ext = box_extents[i];
+                    bounds = new OpenLayers.Bounds(ext[0], ext[1], ext[2], ext[3]);
+                    
+                    box = new OpenLayers.Feature.Vector(bounds.toGeometry());
+                    boxes.addFeatures(box);
+                }
+
+                map.addLayers([ol_wms, boxes]);
+                map.addControl(new OpenLayers.Control.LayerSwitcher());
+                var sf = new OpenLayers.Control.SelectFeature(boxes, {'hover': true });
+                map.addControl(sf);
+                sf.activate();
+                map.zoomToMaxExtent();
+            }
+        </script>
+    </head>
+    <body onload="init()">
+        <h1 id="title">Boxes Example</h1>
+
+        <div id="tags">
+        </div>
+
+        <p id="shortdesc">
+            Demonstrate marker and box type annotations on a map.
+        </p>
+        
+        <div id="map"></div>
+
+        <div id="docs"></div>
+    </body>
+</html>
