Are HTML Image Maps still used?

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ss888 picture ss888 · Mar 9, 2011 · Viewed 83.4k times · Source

Do people still use the old HTML Image Maps? The ones with: 

<map name="test" id="test">
<area shape="poly" alt="" title="" coords=...

Or is there a newer, better alternative?

Answer

JohnP picture JohnP · Mar 9, 2011

Yes, people do still use image maps. An alternative would be to position elements using absolute positioning and CSS but that's not necessarily better. It also doesn't allow you to have shapes like in image maps

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