The <area> coords attribute is used to specify the coordinate of an area in an image-map. It is used with shape attribute to specify the size, shape, and placement of an area. (0, 0) is the coordinate of the top-left corner.
Syntax:
<area coords="value">
Attribute Values:
- x1, y1, x2, y2: It specifies the coordinate of top-left (x1, y1) and bottom-right (x2, y2) corner of the rectangle.
- x, y, radius: It specifies the center coordinates (x, y) and radius (radius) of circle.
- x1, y1, x2, y2, .., xn, yn: It specifies the coordinates of polygon. If the first and last coordinate pairs are not the same, the browser will add the last coordinate pair to close the polygon.
Example:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>
HTML area coords Attribute
</title>
</head>
<body style="text-align:center;">
<img src=
"https://media.geeksforgeeks.org/wp-content/uploads/20190227165729/area11.png"
alt="alt_attribute" width="300" height="119"
class="aligncenter" usemap="#shapemap" />
<map name="shapemap">
<!-- area tag contained image. -->
<area shape="poly" coords="59, 31, 28, 83, 91, 83" href=
"https://media.geeksforgeeks.org/wp-content/uploads/20190227165802/area2.png"
alt="Triangle">
<area shape="circle" coords="155, 56, 26" href=
"https://media.geeksforgeeks.org/wp-content/uploads/20190227165934/area3.png"
alt="Circle">
<area shape="rect" coords="224, 30, 276, 82" href=
"https://media.geeksforgeeks.org/wp-content/uploads/20190227170021/area4.png"
alt="Square">
</map>
</body>
</html>
Output:
- Before click on specific clickable area:
- After click on specific clickable area:
Supported Browsers: The browser supported by <area> coords attribute are listed below:
- Google Chrome
- Edge 12 and above
- Internet Explorer
- Firefox 1 and above
- Safari
- Opera