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| Vector Graphics | graphics that use mathemaatical coordinates with lines curves and shapes to create images |
| Bitmap Graphics | graphics that use small dots to creatimages and specify colors. |
| image map | an image that contains clickable regions sometime called hot spots |
| hot spot | located on a image map, when they are clicked on they act as a hyperlink |
| server side image maps | these image maps require a CGI script and are not common |
| client side image map | the more common image map that allows you to place all code relating to the image map on directly into your html file |
| <img> tag | used to specify an image file in a web page |
| usemap attribute | indicates that the image placed in the web page will use a image map |
| <map> tag | container tag that can be used to image map either before or after the related <img> tag |
| <map> tags name attribute | provides a reference name for the image map |
| <map> tags id attribute | same purpose as the name attribute, but if you omit it your code will not validate |
| <area> tag | stand alone tags that define the hot spot regions of the image map |
| <area> tags shape attribute | Accepted values for this attribute include, rect, circle, and polygon |
| <area> tags coords attribute | the number and meaning of coordinates based off of the shape attribute value |
| <area> tags href attribute | the value of this attribute is a URL specifying the linked page that will load when the user clicks the hot spot |
| Hash symbol(#) in the usemap attributes "mapname" value | Indicates that the #mapname vlue represents an image map defined in the smae HTML file |
