AREA

Description

The AREA element is used to define the shape of a hyperlink "hot spot" in a client-side image map.

Syntax

<AREA
ALT=alternate Text
CLASS=Style Sheet class name
COORDS=coordinates
HREF=url
ID=value
LANG=language
LANGUAGE=JAVASCRIPT | JSCRIPT | VBSCRIPT | VBS
NOHREF
SHAPE=CIRC | CIRCLE | POLY | POLYGON | RECT | RECTANGLE
STYLE=styling
TABINDEX=n pixels
TARGET=window_name | _blank | _parent | _self | _top
TITLE=text
event = script
>

Parameter

Description

ALT

This optional attribute specifies any text that should be displayed if the browser understands the APPLET element.

CLASS

Class of the tag being defined. This is used to associate a subclassed style sheet with the tag.

COORDS

Coordinates that define the hot spot's shape.

HREF

Destination URL or anchor point. The text between the anchor elements becomes a hypertext link. If readers select the link, they would move to the document or location specified by the value of the attribute.

ID

SGML identifier used as the target for hypertext links or for naming particular elements in associated style sheets. Valid ID values must begin with a letter. The underscore character, "_", may be used in the ID name. The ID should be unique throughout the scope of the document. If more than one object with the same identifier exists in a document, a collection of those named items is created that can only be referenced by ordinal position.

LANG

Specifies which language to use in ISO standard language abbreviation form.

LANGUAGE

Specifies the language the current script is written in and invokes the proper scripting engine. The default value is JAVASCRIPT.
* JAVASCRIPT, JSCRIPT The script is written in JScript.
* VBS, VBSCRIPT The script is written in VBScript.

NOHREF

Indicates that clicks in this region should cause no action.

SHAPE

Specifies the type of shape used in the image map. The usually used value are: CIRC | CIRCLE | POLY | POLYGON | RECT | RECTANGLE

STYLE

Specifies an in-line style sheet for the tag.

TABINDEX

Sets the tab order position(pixels) for the object.

TARGET

Window or frame at which to target the contents. If no frame or window exists that matches the specified target, a new window is opened for the specified link. If no target is specified, the default is "_self" for a link within the same site or "_top" if the site is external. Special target values are:
_blank Specifies to load the link into a new unnamed window.
_parent Specifies to load the link into the immediate parent of the document the link is in.
_self Specifies to load the link into the same window the link was clicked in.
_top Specifies to load the link into the full body of the current window.

TITLE

The TITLE attribute is for advisory information (unless used with a mailto: attribute). The Title attribute should provide the title of the document whose address is given by the HREF attribute. The contents of the title attribute will be displayed in a tooltip during the mouse moves on the link. Internet Explorer 4.0 (and above) is the only browser to implement this.

event

Can be one or more of these events:
onblur;
onclick ;
ondblclick ;
ondragstart ;
onfocus ;
onhelp ;
onkeydown ;
onkeypress ;
onkeyup ;
onmousedown ;
onmousemove ;
onmouseout ;
onmouseover ;
onmouseup ;
onselectstart

 

Example

<AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="0, 0, 58, 31" href="http://www.sothink.com/download/">
<AREA TARGET="main" href="sample.htm" SHAPE="CIRCLE" COORDS="73, 15, 10">
<AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="58, 0, 88, 31" NOHREF>

Remarks

This is an empty element and does not require a closing tag.

Related Topics

MAP, IMG