Question

I can’t recall what the process is called but I need a means of creating like a hotspot zone on a web page, so that, when the user hovers there mouse pointer over this zone, the cursor changes to a pointer, which will then allow the user to go to a particular site.

Please note that I am not referring to a simple anchor tag around an image, I am specifically after a means of determining coordinates on a web page which will then turn this area into a hover zone.

Answer 1

A very simple solution is to position an anchor tag to a specific point on the page.

<a id="hotspot" href="#!link">hidden hotspot</a>

#hotspot {
  position: absolute;
  width: 100px;
  height: 100px;
  background: transparent;
  display: block;
  top: Xpx;
  left: Xpx;
  text-indent: -10000px;
}