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The AREA Tag
Tags: Select tag ---------- Tag Reference ---------- A ABBREV ACRONYM ADDRESS APPLET AREA B BASE BASEFONT BGSOUND BIG BLOCKQUOTE BODY BR BUTTON CAPTION CENTER CITE CODE COL COLGROUP DD DEL DFN DIR DIV DL DT EM EMBED FONT FORM FRAME FRAMESET H1 - H6 HEAD HR HTML I IFRAME IMG INPUT INS ISINDEX KBD LI LINK LISTING MAP MARQUEE MENU META NOBR NOFRAMES NOSCRIPT OL OPTGROUP OPTION P PARAM PLAINTEXT PRE Q S SAMP SCRIPT SELECT SMALL SPACER SPAN SPOT STRIKE STRONG STYLE SUB SUP TABLE TBODY TD TEXTAREA TFOOT TH THEAD TITLE TR TT U UL VAR XMP
Name Area Description Defines an area on an image.  The area can be clicked on to navigate to a URL.  AREA tags must be used within the MAP tag.  Note that this tag is currently unsupported in Firefox. Attributes ALT Sets the tooltip text for the area. COORDS Sets the coordinates for the area.  The format of the coordinates will depend on whether the SHAPE attribute is set to rect, circ or poly: SHAPE Attribute COORDS Attribute Format circle x centre,y centre,radius rect left,top,right,bottom poly x1,y1,x2,y2,x3,y3... HREF Specifies the URL to link to.  To link to a file on the same site use the local path e.g. href="index.html" or href="folder/contents.html".  You can also use dots to link to a document in the parent folder e.g. href="..\document.html".  To link to another site, use the full URL e.g.: href="http://www.martin2k.co.uk". SHAPE Specifies the shape to use.  This can either be set to rect (rectangle), circ or poly (polygon). TARGET Specifies the target frame.  As well as name of frames, there are predefined values that can be used to open the page in a specific location: Value Description _blank Open in new window _parent Open in parent frame _self Open in same frame _top Open in current window, regardless of frames used Related Tags The AREA tag is used within the MAP tag.  More than one AREA tag can be used.  The IMG tag must also be used to specify which image to use - see the MAP tag for how to do this. Example Code <img src="area1.gif" border="0" alt="Shapes" usemap="#shapemap"> <map id="shapemap">     <area shape="circ" coords="47,87,30" href ="area2.gif" target="_blank" alt="Red circle">     <area shape="rect" coords="106,26,138,129" href ="area3.gif" target="_blank" alt="Blue rectangle">     <area shape="poly" coords="179,21,216,40,194,98,205,130,152,129,169,100,146,55" href="area4.gif" target="_blank" alt="Green polygon"> </map> Generates Please fill in the below form if you have any comments or additional information you want to add about the above information.  If you have any questions, please visit the Forum.  Any questions sent using this form will be ignored. * - Mandatory *Name: E-mail: *Comments: *Please type the following code (your comment cannot be accepted without it): © Martin Allen 1999 - 2006.  Last updated Sunday 01 October 2006 06:05:32 PM +0100.