Images and Mappings
In this lesson we will study images in relation to mappings. Let's begin!
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In the previous chapter, you learned how you can turn your images into links by surrounding an <img> tag with an <a> tag. Images provide another great feature, the ability to define a number of hot-spots, each of them having a link of its own.
For example, you can display a color picker image where each separate color is a hot-spot, and when the user clicks any of them, you’ll use the link to pick up the appropriate color.
Another example is a map of the world, where you use each country as a hot-spot to show related sales information.
To achieve this behavior, you need to define a map and assign it to an image, as shown in this markup snippet:
<img src="myimage.png" usemap="#mymap" /><map name="mymap"><area ... /><area ... /><!-- More area tags --><area ... /></map>
The <map> tag embeds one or ...