What is an image map?

[PoolMaster]

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What is an image map?

[John-Smith]

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. For example, a map of the world may have each country hyperlinked to further information about that country.

[Pooja16]

In HTML and XHTML, an image map is a list of coordinates regarding a selected image, created so as to link areas of the image to completely different destinations (as opposed to a normal image link, during which the entire area of the image links to one destination).

[HosTechS]

An image map is basically a very useful tool. It allows you to jot down multiple clickable areas on an image and have them each link to a different place. Say for instance you are thinking of a geographic map, and being able to click different regions to go to more detailed maps of that region.

[RH-Calvin]

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).

[rais_26]

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.

[seomark13]

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 so that google can crawl it and improve your seo ranking

[vinu]

In Web page development, an image map is a graphic image defined so that a user can click on different areas of the image and be linked to different destinations.

[vijayshah1140]

It is a graphic image defined by which user can click different areas of the images and linked to a different destination

[Saravanan28]

Image map is a DOM element defined with the <map> tag. It is used in conjunction with <img> elements to specify an image with clickable areas. The <map> tag has multiple <area> elements, and each of them defines a separate clickable area in the image map.

[Pihu]

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.

[yuva12]

The map tag is used to make clickable areas of the image which can be very helpful sometimes such as:

For design, when you want to make a clickable area on an image.
For games, if you need to make for example your students to click on the correct part of the image.

[vinu]

An imagemap on the WWW permits the web document writer to include in its document the ability for a viewer to "click" on a portion of a GIF or JPEG (or any other image) file. There are three components in a Web page image map.
An image: a normal web image, usually stored in the GIF or JPEG format.
A set of map data: a description of the mapped regions within the image.
An HTML host entry: the HTML code that positions the image within the web page and designates the image as having map functionality.

[asad1997]

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