# Adding Clickable Hotspots to Images

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Adding Clickable Hotspots to Images
An ImageMap allows you to attach URLs to specific areas, called hotspots, on a picture in your document. An image map is a group of one or more hotspots.
You can draw three types of hotspots: rectangles, ellipses, and polygons. When you click a hotspot, the URL is opened in the browser window or frame that you specify. You can also specify the text that appears when your mouse rests on the hotspot.
To add a clickable hotspot to an image
- Position the cursor where you want the ImageMap in your document.
- Choose Insert - Picture - From File, select and insert a bitmap picture.
- With the picture selected, choose Edit - ImageMap. You see the ImageMap Editor, which displays the picture at the background.
- Use the icons in the ImageMap Editor to draw a hotspot shape, for example a rectangle, over the image at the background.
  You can see an extended help text on the functions of each icon when you enable Extended Help in %PRODUCTNAME - Preferences Tools - Options - %PRODUCTNAME - General.
- Enter the "Address" URL that will be shown in a Web browser when the user clicks the hotspot.
- Optionally, enter the "Text" that will be shown as a tip when the user points the mouse to the hotspot.
- Click the Apply button to apply your changes, and close the ImageMap Editor.
- Save the document in the %PRODUCTNAME or HTML format.
You may save the ImageMap as a file and upload that file to a Web server, for example.