Image maps 101
To create precise link areas within a graphic on a web page, many web developers use image maps. If it's important to make your image maps compatible with a wide range of browsers, you should probably use server-side image maps, which require you to use both the ISMAP attribute of the IMG tag on the client side and to create a MAP file on the server side. For example, to supply a map file named MAPFILE.MAP for an image named IMAGE.GIF, you'd use the following HTML description