HTML | coords Attribute

Last Updated : 19 Jul, 2022

The HTML coords Attribute is used to specify the coordinate of an area in an image-map. It is used with shape attribute to specify the size, shape, and placement of an area. (0, 0) is the coordinate of the top-left corner.
Syntax:

<element coords="value">

Supported Tags:

<area>

Attribute Values:

x1, y1, x2, y2: It specifies the coordinate of top-left (x1, y1) and bottom-right (x2, y2) corner of the rectangle.
x, y, radius: It specifies the center coordinates (x, y) and radius (radius) of circle.
x1, y1, x2, y2, .., xn, yn: It specifies the coordinates of polygon. If the first and last coordinate pairs are not the same, the browser will add the last coordinate pair to close the polygon.

Example:

html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
 
<head>
    <title>
        HTML coords Attribute
    </title>
</head>
 
<body style="text-align:center;">
    <h1>GeeksForGeeks</h1>
    <h2>HTML Coords Attribute</h2>
    <img src=
"https://media.geeksforgeeks.org/wp-content/uploads/20190227165729/area11.png"
         alt="alt_attribute"
         width="300"
         height="119"
         class="aligncenter"
         usemap="#shapemap" />
 
    <map name="shapemap">
 
        <!-- area tag contained image. -->
        <area shape="poly"
              coords="59, 31, 28, 83, 91, 83"
              href=
"https://media.geeksforgeeks.org/wp-content/uploads/20190227165802/area2.png"
              alt="Triangle">
 
        <area shape="circle"
              coords="155, 56, 26"
              href=
"https://media.geeksforgeeks.org/wp-content/uploads/20190227165934/area3.png"
              alt="Circle">
 
        <area shape="rect"
              coords="224, 30, 276, 82"
              href=
"https://media.geeksforgeeks.org/wp-content/uploads/20190227170021/area4.png"
              alt="Square">
    </map>
</body>
 
</html>