HTML coords Attribute

Last Updated : 12 Jul, 2025

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: In this example the <map> and <area> elements to create clickable regions on an image. Each region links to different URLs and is defined by shapes and coordinates.

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>