Is it possible to create an image map in an HTML e-mail (especially Microsoft Office Outlook?
It must be possible because I’ve gotten image-map HTML spam. I’d guess the best way to do it is make the HTML in a program more suited to that sort of thing and then e-mail the result. Outlook &c use the associated HTML browser to look at these things so if it works in IE it will probably show up correctly in Outlook.
Pasting from a browser into Outlook seems to be the only way to inject any useful code into it. From what I’ve seen, there’s no way to get into the pseudo-code. My advice is to make it in basic HTML (tutorial), since javascript, css, and all of the other goodies aren’t reliable in Outlook, especially since it now uses the Word page renderer instead of IE. Make sure your image is referenced from a definite internet address in the html, not just a local computer folder. Get your map up, and then Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C from the browser and paste it into your Outlook email. On preview: Good Brain’s advice sounds good, too, but you’ll have to use a slicing program like photoshop to achieve it. Or do it by hand.
