# stowball/jQuery-rwdImageMaps

Responsive Image Maps jQuery Plugin

Repository: https://github.com/stowball/jQuery-rwdImageMaps
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/jquery-rwdimagemaps
Homepage: http://mattstow.com
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: jquery, jquery-plugin, responsive
Last push: 2021-12-04T00:53:30+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5253, "days_push": 1734, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1555, forks 691 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:03.174818+00:00)

## What it is
A jQuery plugin that makes HTML image maps (img[usemap]) work in responsive designs by recalculating area coordinates to match the actual rendered image size on load and window resize. It is a small, MIT-licensed, single-purpose frontend utility.

## Use cases
- make clickable image map hotspots scale with a responsive image
- keep image map area coordinates accurate after browser window resize
- use image maps in a mobile-friendly responsive website
- fix image maps that break when images are resized via CSS
- add interactive clickable regions to images on a jQuery site

## When to choose
- you already use jQuery and need responsive image maps with minimal effort
- you have legacy image map markup that must work in a fluid layout
- you want a tiny, dependency-light plugin with no build step

## When to avoid
- you are building a modern stack without jQuery
- you can replace image maps with SVG or CSS-based clickable overlays
- you need active development or long-term support

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, frontend-framework
- domain: web-development, frontend
- platform: browser
- tags: jquery-plugin, image-maps, responsive-design, rwd, javascript

## Member repositories
- stowball/jQuery-rwdImageMaps (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:03.174818+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:30:03.370296+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/stowball/jQuery-rwdImageMaps (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:03.174818+00:00, sha 14463a63c704)
  - homepage: http://mattstow.com (fetched 2026-08-29T11:30:37.054945+00:00, sha 636f8143ed39)
  - site_page: http://mattstow.com/layout-engine.html (fetched 2026-08-29T11:30:37.065791+00:00, sha 4cf70d280ac0)
  - site_page: http://mattstow.com/rwd-retrofit.html (fetched 2026-08-29T11:30:37.067961+00:00, sha 0276616cd5ba)
  - site_page: http://mattstow.com/easy-css3.html (fetched 2026-08-29T11:30:37.070225+00:00, sha 77417dac8535)
  - site_page: http://mattstow.com/responsive-and-retina-content-images-redux.html (fetched 2026-08-29T11:30:37.072315+00:00, sha 15b6981b2a82)
  - site_page: http://mattstow.com/responsive-and-retina-content-images.html (fetched 2026-08-29T11:30:37.075390+00:00, sha 851e378e4a97)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.