Explain about image map?
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Explain about image map?
A picture outline a realistic picture characterized with the goal that a client can tap on various regions of the picture and be connected to various goals.
An image map is a list of coordinates relating to a specific image, created in order to hyperlink areas of the image to different destinations (as opposed to a normal image link, in which the entire area of the image links to a single destination).
Simple, It is a process, in which an image is divided into number of regions. When clicked on each region, a separate web page is displayed.
Syntax: <img src="path of the image" usemap="mapname">
Then the map is divided into number of regions. shapes of regions - rectangular, circle, polygon or default. The co-ordinates for each area are to be specified.
An image map is an image with the intention of acts as a link, but as a substitute of basically acting as a link to a particular page, the picture acts as a link to several pages.
In HTML and XHTML, an image map is a list of coordinates relating to a specific image, created in order to hyperlink areas of the image to different destinations (as opposed to a normal image link, in which the entire area of the image links to a single destination).
An image map is an image that acts as a link, but instead of simply acting as a link to a single page, the image acts as a link to multiple pages. The required name attribute of the <map> element is associated with the <img>'s usemap attribute and creates a relationship between the image and the map.
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