HyperText Markup Language/Tag List/area

Use

For specifying coordinates of image maps.

Example

<area shape="rect" href="map_2.html" coords="300, 30, 29, 211" alt="Map of Woods" />

Required attributes

coords

The coordinates of area in image map.

href

The link to another page specified.

shape

Defining the shape of the image map.

Optional attributes

accesskey

For adding keyboard shortcuts instead of clicking on the area.

alt

For giving information about the area.

nohref

For making a click on the area mean nothing.

target

For declaring the window or frame the link shall be displayed in.

Standard attributes

• accesskey
• alt
• coords
• href
• nohef
• shape
• target

More info

A link to a page with more info, then the name of the site the info came from (i.e. W3Schools).