Image mapping Image Mapping Image maps are dynamic or active images embedded in HTML documents. By clicking on different regions of an image map the user links to different documents or URLs.
Image maps can be great space savers, allowing designers to place several links into a small area.
These sections or hot spots are defined by the web page designer using standard HTML markup tags. This markup may be either in a separate file or in the same web page as the image. You can construct image maps in one of two ways. One way is called the client-side image map . Client-side maps depend upon the browser to read the map coordinates that define the hot spots and call up the appropriate document.