The HTML Elements reference.

"map" - html element

  • This element specifies a client-side image map that may be associated with another elements like: IMG, OBJECT, or INPUT.
  • Starttag <map> is Required and endtag </map> is Required
  • It's required NAME attribute is used as an anchor for the USEMAP attribute of the 'img' , 'object' , or 'input' element.
  • Browsers that support the map - element : Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox Opera Google Chrome Apple Safari
Element "map" example:
<html>
  <body>
    <img src="images/TheSun.png" 
         alt="The Sun image" title="The Sun image"
         usemap="#sunmap" />
    <map name="sunmap">
      <area id="sun" shape="circle"
            coords="182,117,57" alt="The Sun" 
            onclick="alert('You click on the Sun');"/></map>
   <p>Coordinates:
      <script type="text/javascript">
        document.write(document.getElementById("sun").coords);
      </script>
      Which is :<br/>
      left: 182px; (to the center of the sun)<br/>
      top: 117px;  (to the center of the sun)<br/>
      radius: 57px;
    </p>

  </body>
</html>


Attributes:
class , dir , id , lang , name (required), style , title

Attribute "class" value(s): A list of style class names that must be separated by white space characters.
  • This attribute assigns a style class name or set of style class names to an element. Any number of elements may be assigned the same class name or names.
  • You will find more about this in the CSS learning on this site.



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