How to use area tag


<area>


All Tags not showing in online page, but show on view source.

<img src="images/area_map.jpg" border="0" usemap="#Map">
<map name="Map">
  <area shape="circle" coords="139,218,80" href="#">
>/map>

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Browser Support

The <area> tag is supported in all major browsers.

Attention: The area tag use into attribute in the <img> tag is associated with the <map> element’s name attribute, and creates a relationship between the image and the map.

What is area tag

area tag use for image link in a particular area, You can see free text is linked of this whole image

HTML 4.01

HTML 4.01 attributes are no longer supported.

HTML5

HTML5 area tag has some new attributes.