AREA define region on an imagemap which is a hypertext link HTML 3.2

AREA

Purpose

define region on an imagemap which is a hypertext link

Description

The AREA element is used in the MAP element to define the region on an imagemap which is a hypertext link. The area that is sensitive is defined in terms of X, Y pixel coordinates. Use a graphics program to find these.

Start tag

Required <AREA>

Attributes

Name	Type	Default	Comment
alt	CDATA	#REQUIRED	needed for non-graphical user agents
coords	CDATA	#IMPLIED	comma separated list of numbers; comma separated list of numbers; defines coordinates for shape
href	CDATA	#IMPLIED	Uniform Resource Locator; see RFC1808 and RFC1738; this region acts as hypertext link; uniform resource locator
nohref	( nohref )	#IMPLIED	this region has no action
shape	( rect \| circle \| poly )	rect

Content

EMPTY

End tag

Forbidden

Referenced in

MAP

Example

Source	Appearance
<MAP Name="mymap"> <AREA Shape="rect" Coords="0,0,100,50" Href="http://www.december.com/html/"> </MAP> <IMG Src="../../images/icon.gif" Usemap="#mymap" Width="100" Height="100" Ismap>