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Asked: 2026-05-30T22:42:00+00:00

Hi Everyone, i am try to use the image mapping in HTML 4.01 Strict,but

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Hi Everyone,
i am try to use the image mapping in HTML 4.01 Strict,but the w3c validoter give me the error of map not supporting,
my code is look like this

<img id="link_image" src="images/livechat.png" usemap="#Map" alt="The chat link" />
<map name="Map" id="Map" class="newWindow link-chat" ><area shape="rect"  coords="79,3,521,67" href="#" alt="The chat link mapping" /></map>

Give the following error,

Line 57, Column 54: document type does not allow element "MAP" here; missing one of "P", "H1", "H2", "H3", "H4", "H5", "H6", "PRE", "DIV", "ADDRESS" start-tag
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  1. Editorial Team

    Map cannot be placed inside the body tag, place it inside div instead (or one of the alternatives in the error message), like so:

    <div>
    <img id="link_image" src="images/livechat.png" usemap="#Map" alt="The chat link" /
    <map name="Map" id="Map" class="newWindow link-chat" ><area shape="rect"  coords="79,3,521,67" href="#" alt="The chat link mapping"></map>
</div>

    You also need to remove the unnecessary map short tag as previously suggested in the other answers.

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