Dynamically resizing Image-maps and images

If you end up to do the task with JavaScript, here is a cross-browser codesnippet to resize all areas in MAP element.

window.onload = function () {
    var ImageMap = function (map) {
            var n,
                areas = map.getElementsByTagName('area'),
                len = areas.length,
                coords = [],
                previousWidth = 1920;
            for (n = 0; n < len; n++) {
                coords[n] = areas[n].coords.split(',');
            }
            this.resize = function () {
                var n, m, clen,
                    x = document.body.clientWidth / previousWidth;
                for (n = 0; n < len; n++) {
                    clen = coords[n].length;
                    for (m = 0; m < clen; m++) {
                        coords[n][m] *= x;
                    }
                    areas[n].coords = coords[n].join(',');
                }
                previousWidth = document.body.clientWidth;
                return true;
            };
            window.onresize = this.resize;
        },
        imageMap = new ImageMap(document.getElementById('map_ID'));
    imageMap.resize();
}

previousWidth must be equal to the width of the original image. You also need to use some relative units in HTML:

<div style="width:100%;">
<img id="Image-Maps_5201211070133251" src="Site.png" usemap="#Image-Maps_5201211070133251" border="0" width="100%" alt="" />

Working demo at jsFiddle. If you open the fiddle in IE, you can actually see AREAs when clicking them.

I wrote a small little lib to keep an imageMap scaled to a resizable image, so the map stays in sync as the image scales. Useful when you want to map a percentage scaled image etc.

It can be used with or without jQuery.

https://github.com/davidjbradshaw/imagemap-resizer

and you can see it working at.

http://davidjbradshaw.com/imagemap-resizer/example/