Clickable Images

The idea

Server-Side Imagemaps

The original way to handle clickable images was the following: Here is an example:

The imagemap program receives the coordinates of the mouse click as a parameter. Other server-side scripts can be used that interpret these coordinates in a completely different way.

Client-Side Imagemaps

By providing the map file (with the region-destination pairs) to the browser the browser can translate mouse clicks to link destinations, and highlight "active" regions. Here is an example: Inside the circle Inside the rectangle Inside the polygon Outside the objects