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 elements associated with the element.

Value

A HTMLCollection object of HTMLAreaElement elements.

Example

html

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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`;
  });
}

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Specifications

Specification
HTML
# dom-map-areas-dev

Browser compatibility

See also