Link within an image?

[compxinu]

I have a family picture that is a jpg. What I would like to do is have my family be able to click on each individual within the family picture and be sent to another area or have a small pop up window appear with information.

If I went to my website and saw my family picture with 45 people in it, I would like to go and mouse click on my fathers head and body within the picture, and after I click, information about his life will appear.

I have seen it done before on other websites, but I do not know the techy term for this to look up. How do I perform this task? And where can I find more information on this?

I think it has something to do with the image itself and you have to map out the image with some html code.. I think??



Hope this makes sense?

 

[chessbot]

image map"

--Chessbot

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[hotfusion]

Image map" it is.
The details are not complicated really, but are a bit too involved to go into here. It basically involves stipulating pixel coordinates within the image to define a shape, either square, circular or irregular, for the clickable link regions. Do a search, and I'm sure you'll find all the info you need.

Regards, Andy.
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