Utilities domain elements The utilities domain elements are used to describe image maps and enable sorting. areaThe <area> element defines a linkable region in an image map.coordsThe <coords> element specifies the coordinates of a linkable region in an <imagemap>.imagemapA image map is an image with areas that are linked to DITA topics, web pages, PDFs, or any other resources that can be targeted by the @href attribute.shapeThe <shape> element defines the shape of a linkable region in an image map.sort-asThe <sort-as> element can be used to specify an effective sort phrase when the base sort phrase is not appropriate for sorting, for example, Japanese characters. This element prepends text to the base sort phrase in order to construct an effective sort phrase.Parent topic: Domain elements