Making a Client-side Clickable Image

Professor John M. McCann
Fuqua School of Business
Duke University Last update: July 1, 1996

This note describes the procedure for builiding a Client-side Image Map; it is based on the material in the article "HTML Extensions - Progress or Plague," by Michael Erwin in Boardwatch, March 1996. A Client-side Image Map does not require an interaction with the server to interpret the meaning of mouse clicks on an image map; the client handles the interpretation and retrieves the appropriate URL.

You should be familar with the Fortune Teller application described in my document "Making a Clickable Image" and implemented in "The Fortune Teller's Vision of Your Future." This document illustrates the same application as a Client-side Image Map.

The following HTML tags produces the clickable image map:

This code generates the following clickable image:

A tutorial is available from Spyglass.