HTMLMapElement: areas property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The areas read-only property of the HTMLMapElement interface returns a collection of <area> elements associated with the <map> element.

Value

A HTMLCollection object of HTMLAreaElement elements.

Example

html
<map id="image-map" name="image-map">
  <area shape="circle" coords="50,50,35" href="#left" alt="left arrow" />
  <area shape="circle" coords="150,50,35" href="#right" alt="right arrow" />
</map>
<img
  usemap="#image-map"
  src="left-right-arrow.png"
  alt="left right arrow image" />
<output></output>
js
const mapElement = document.getElementById("image-map");
const outputElement = document.querySelector("output");

for (const area of mapElement.areas) {
  area.addEventListener("click", (event) => {
    outputElement.textContent = `You clicked on the ${area.alt} area.\n\n`;
  });
}

Results

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# dom-map-areas-dev

Browser compatibility

desktop mobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
areas
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 1 (Release date: 2008-12-11)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 12 (Release date: 2015-07-29)
footnote Full support
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 1 (Release date: 2004-11-09)
footnote Full support
Opera – Full support
Opera 12.1 (Release date: 2012-11-20)
footnote Full support
Safari – Full support
Safari 3 (Release date: 2007-10-26)
footnote Full support
Chrome Android – Full support
Chrome Android 18 (Release date: 2012-06-27)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – Full support
Firefox for Android 4 (Release date: 2011-03-29)
footnote Full support
Opera Android – Full support
Opera Android 12.1 (Release date: 2012-10-09)
footnote Full support
Safari on iOS – Full support
Safari on iOS 1 (Release date: 2007-06-29)
footnote Full support
Samsung Internet – Full support
Samsung Internet 1 (Release date: 2013-04-27)
footnote Full support
WebView Android – Full support
WebView Android 4.4 (Release date: 2013-12-09)
footnote Full support
WebView on iOS – Full support
WebView on iOS 1 (Release date: 2007-06-29)
footnote Full support

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Full support
Full support

See also