Image Maps Overview

With Xara LX, you can create client-side image maps, which are part of the HTML 3.2 specification. Use Web Address on the Utilities menu to add web addresses (URLs) to the different parts of your drawing.

When complete, you can then save or export the drawing and save out the associated image map in one operation. For more information on this, click the Help button on the Export dialog box. You can also use the Export dialog box to test the image map before saving the graphic and the Image Map. For more details, see Exporting image maps.

Each image map in a document must have a unique name. This name is used in both the <MAP> and <IMG> tags to associate the image map to its image. For example, for an image map called 'example', the tags would be <MAP NAME="example"> and <IMG USEMAP="#example">. (There will be other attributes in the IMG tag such as SRC.) You allocate a name when you save the image map from Xara LX.

Theoretically the image map could be in a different HTML document to the IMG tag. Most browsers currently don't support this and it is not recommended.

Xara LX exports the complete image map; that is, including the <MAP> starting tag and the</MAP> closing tag.

Notes

For more information on HTML and image maps refer to a reference book on HTML and the Internet.

You can produce an image map for any type of graphic but they are usually associated with GIF, JPEG and PNG files.

Movies (not working in this version)

Creating hot-spots

Image maps

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