This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The HTMLMapElement interface provides special properties and methods (beyond those of the regular object HTMLElement interface it also has available to it by inheritance) for manipulating the layout and presentation of map elements.
Inherits properties from its parent, HTMLElement.
HTMLMapElement.nameA string representing the <map> element for referencing it other context. If the id attribute is set, this must have the same value; and it cannot be null or empty.
HTMLMapElement.areas Read only
A live HTMLCollection representing the <area> elements associated to this <map>.
No specific method; inherits methods from its parent, HTMLElement .
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # htmlmapelement> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
HTMLMapElement |
1 | 12 | 1 | ≤12.1 | 3 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 1 |
areas |
1 | 12 | 1 | ≤12.1 | 3 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 1 |
name |
1 | 12 | 1 | ≤12.1 | 3 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 1 |
<map>.
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLMapElement