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Create a usable image map

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Create a usable image map

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- [Instructor] As if SVG wasn't good enough already with its scalability and also its ability to be addressed by things like JavaScript and CSS, there's a way inside of Illustrator that you can actually create some interactivity really simply and its kind of resurrecting something that had fallen by the wayside and that is an image map, clickable regions on a graphic and because this is vector, they will conform to the geometry of the shape. Probably easier if I show you that this small chart here divided into three sections is going to link through to my social. So what I'm going to do is go up to the Window menu and come down to the Attributes panel here and then open that up fully to expand it, so click on the fly-out and choose Show All. And then what I need to do is target the slice that I want to work with, you'll see that I've actually already populated the other two and change the map here to polygon and then just drop a URL in here and so I'm just putting in…

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