Place element on HTML area map

[PaulOB]

Unfortunately that is not possible as the area tag doesn’t actually match the position supplied by its co-ordinates.

See my answer below from 6 years ago for more info.

Can you style MAP and/or AREA tags?

Hi, You can style them but like other special elements they are usually display:none to start with. e.g. Firefox has these as default in html.css area, base, basefont, head, meta, script, style, title, noembed, param { display: none; } If you set it to display:block you can give it a background and borders etc. However, as you noticed the element doesn’t actually sit in the place specified by the co-ordinate attributes. The element is probably just a container for holding data that th…

There’s an old plugin called maphighlight that will highlight coordinates on an image map which be of use.
https://davidlynch.org/projects/maphilight/docs/demo_usa.html