area

Form

<area>
<area /> (description in XHTML)

Attributes

attribute	default	description
id	none	specifies the unique ID
class	none	specifies the style sheet class
style	none	specifies the style sheet
href	none	specifies the URL
nohref	none	specifies that this area has no associated link
shape	none	specifies the shape of a clickable area
coords	none	specifies the coordinates of a clickable area
alt	none	specifies an alternative text for the area

Support

HTML 3.2, HTML 4.01 [STF], XHTML 1.0 [STF], XHTML 1.1
Microsoft (MSDN)
[IE3 or later][Firefox 1 or later][Safari 1 or later][Opera 3 or later][Netscape 2 or later]

Explanation

The area tag specifies an area in the clickable map. This tag should be enclosed in the <map> tags.
In XHTML, you should type like <area />.

Related Tags

a__, map

Sample Code [Output]

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=shift_jis">
<title>Sample</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Sample</h1>
<img src="photo.jpg" usemap="#test">
<map name="test">
<area href="http://www.openspc2.org/" shape="rect" coords="0,0,160,60">
<area href="../index.html" shape="rect" coords="0,61,160,120">
</map>
</body>
</html>