What is image mapping

Image mapping is a method to add hyperlink on certain part of an image. A general webpage have text hyperlink, like this site. You may seen examples of images mapping in your mailbox. I generally get such mails from Dell and HP about their latest offers. With image mapping you can add different link on different are of an image. You simply specify which areas of the image should link to where.

A simple coding is need for image mapping like this:

From above code we see that, we need to specify coordinate of image part. This is not easy to measure coordinate using hand. There are many tools using which you can easily do image mapping. Simple select the image part using mouse and add link. Most HTML editor have this inbuilt feature, or you can search on Google or Live.com for free image mapping tools. There are some On-line Image Mapping Tools also.

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