HTML area href Attribute

HTML <area> tag

Definition and Usage

The href attribute specifies the URL (web resource) to be loaded when the area is activated (clicked).

Syntax

<area href="URL" />

Syntax Example

<area href="http://www.w3schools.com" />

Attribute Values

Browser Support

The attribute is supported in all major browsers.

What is an URL

A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is used to address a document (or other data) on the World Wide Web.

A full Web address like this: http://www.w3schools.com/html/lastpage.htm follows these syntax rules:

scheme://host.domain:port/path/filename

The domain is defining the Internet domain name like w3schools.com.

The host is defining the domain host. If omitted, the default host for http is www.

The :port is defining the port number at the host. The port number is normally omitted. The default port number for http is 80. 

The path is defining a path (a sub directory) at the server. If the path is omitted, the resource (the document) must be located at the root directory of the Web site.

The filename is defining the name of a document. The default filename might be default.asp, or index.html or something else depending on the settings of the Web server.

Tips and Notes

Tip: All URLs should be URL encoded when required.

Example

Source	Output
<p>Click on one of the planets:</p> <img src ="planets.gif" width="145" height="126" alt="Planets" usemap ="#planetmap" /> <map id ="planetmap" name="planetmap"> <area shape="rect" coords ="0,0,82,126" href ="sun.htm" alt="Sun" /> <area shape ="circle" coords ="90,58,3" href ="mercur.htm" alt="Mercury" /> <area shape ="circle" coords ="124,58,8" href ="venus.htm" alt="Venus" /> </map>	Click on one of the planets:

Try-It-Yourself Demos

area href attribute example
Specify the URL of the link in the image map.

HTML <area> tag

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