Example
An image-map, with clickable areas:
<img src ="planets.gif"
width="145" height="126"
alt="Planets"
usemap="#planetmap">
<map
name="planetmap">
<area shape="rect" coords="0,0,82,126" href="sun.htm" alt="Sun">
<area shape="circle" coords="90,58,3" href="mercur.htm" alt="Mercury">
<area shape="circle" coords="124,58,8" href="venus.htm" alt="Venus">
</map>
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Definition and Usage
The coords attribute specifies the coordinates of an area in an image-map.
The coords attribute is used together with the shape attribute to specify the size, shape, and placement of an area.
Tip: The coordinates of the top-left corner of an area are 0,0.
Browser Support
| Attribute | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| coords | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Differences Between HTML 4.01 and HTML5
NONE.
Syntax
<area coords="value">
Attribute Values
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| x1,y1,x2,y2 | Specifies the coordinates of the left, top, right, bottom corner of the rectangle (for shape="rect") |
| x,y,radius | Specifies the coordinates of the circle center and the radius (for shape="circle") |
| x1,y1,x2,y2,..,xn,yn | Specifies the coordinates of the edges of the polygon. If the first and last coordinate pairs are not the same, the browser will add the last coordinate pair to close the polygon (for shape="poly") |