Creating an imagemap

An imagemap is a graphic you enhance with programmable hotspots that perform some action when a user clicks on them. Image maps are often used as navigational structures in an application. For example, an imagemap of a plate of food might have hotspots users click to see recipes for the food pictured. Unlike a navigator, which is an independent design element, an imagemap resides on a page or form, so you can easily combine an imagemap with text and other page or form elements, and you can control the display of an imagemap using a hide-when or computed-for-display formula. If you plan to create a site map or navigator that combines several graphics with text and action buttons, create a navigator instead of an imagemap.

An imagemap can be any graphic you can paste or import into a page or form, with the exception of graphics in PI format. If you create an imagemap and then need to change the graphic, you can change the graphic while keeping the hotspots intact.