8 jQuery Plugins for Layout and UI Enhancements. On occasion, you might have to work on a project that has unique layout or UI requirements – things that can’t be achieved with CSS alone. With projects like these, jQuery can be very useful. So for this post, we’ve rounded up some jQuery plugins that can help you accomplish some amazing things when it comes to enhancing web page layouts and User Interfaces. equalize.js The jQuery plugin for equalizing the height or width of elements. jQuery Scroll Path jQuery Scroll Path it’s a plugin for defining custom scroll paths.
Freetile.js Freetile is a plugin for jQuery that enables the organization of webpage content in an efficient, dynamic and responsive layout. gridster.js This is it, the mythical drag-and-drop multi-column grid has arrived. Rcarousel rcarousel – a continuous jQuery UI carousel. jQuery HiddenPosition Position any element to any element, even if they are hidden. turn.js BookBlock Here's some other articles that you will definitely find useful. 12 Helpful Tools for Responsive Web Design.
10 jQuery Plugins that Will Make your Life Easier. jQuery has changed the way developers write JavaScript and the way users interact with websites and web applications. If you’re a developer, you know what a pleasure it can be to work with jQuery, especially the convenience of plugins. In this post, we’ve rounded up 10 jQuery Plugins that Will Make your Life Easier.
In this collection of plugins, you’ll find a wide range of functionality, from navigation enhancements to image viewing. blur.js blur.js is a jQuery plugin that produces psuedo-transparent blurred elements over other elements. Gips Gips is a clean and simple jQuery plugin and is based on Gips Freebie . Nestable Drag & drop hierarchical list with mouse and touch compatibility (jQuery plugin) notify Notify! Hammer.js A javascript library for multi-touch gestures TypeButter TypeButter allows you to set optical kerning for any font on your website. Websanova Paint iPicture iPicture is a jQuery Plugin to create interactive pictures with extra descriptions. Adipoli The Wookmark jQuery plugin. Dan Palmer. Websites have a responsibility to users to accurately tell them how good a password is, and this is not an easy job. If your password is 8 characters long and only formed of lower case characters, you need to make it better, perhaps by adding a number or more characters.
If your password is 25 characters long but happens to not contain a number, you shouldn't be forced by a password security policy to add one, you clearly have a very secure password. Complexify aims to provide a good measure of password complexity for websites to use both for giving hints to users in the form of strength bars, and for casually enforcing a minimum complexity for security reasons. Note: I use the term 'casually' because this is only client-side validation and anyone could turn it off. I recommend implementing a minimum length check server-side as well. In the future I may code up this algorithm for use server-side. Complexity Rating Unicode Try it out: How do I use it? What Complexify doesn't do: Complexify Ports. 10 Fresh and Useful jQuery Plugins. There are many reasons why you can say jQuery has enormous popularity.
Some might say it’s because of its excellent cross browser compatibility, while others will argue that the small footprint is responsible for jQuery’s widespread adoption. While these are valid points, no one can deny that all of the great plugins built by a very passionate community is a big reason as well. So for this post we’ve gathered some of the latest jQuery plugins to be released. In this list you will find some very useful ones that will help you with things like layout, typography, and more. Jquery Transit Super-smooth CSS3 transformations and transitions for jQuery — v0.1.3 Pageslide A jQuery plugin which slides a webpage over to reveal an additional interaction pane. stellar.js Parallax has never been easier.
Get turn.js Is a plugin for jQuery that adds a beautiful transition similar to real pages in a book or magazine for HTML5. jQuery Scroll Path Glisse.js The Wookmark jQuery plugin SlabText Morris.js HiddenPosition. 9 jQuery Mistakes you Shouldn’t Commit. jQuery is so easy to use that sometimes we just forget that it’s not CSS. While using CSS, we don’t have to give much thought to performance, because it’s so fast that it’s not worth the effort to optimize it. But when it comes to the real world, jQuery can drive developers crazy with performance issues. Sometimes you lose precious milliseconds without even noticing it. Also, it’s so easy to forget about some functions and we keep using the old (and not-so-good) ones. Let’s take a look at a few of the most-common-and-easiest-to-fix mistakes while using jQuery in your projects. 1. You aren’t using the latest jQuery version Each version update means higher performance and several bug fixes. 2.
How many unique visitors you`ve got last month? 3. I know I said Google is awesome and stuff, but they can fail. <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js"></script><script>window.jQuery || document.write('<script src="js/libs/jquery-1.7.2.min.js"><\/script>')</script> 4. 24 Best jQuery Media Plugins to Use in 2012. March 7th, 2012 jQuery Media Plugins help make an outstanding presentation for the web content. Their functionality will withdraw your website to an absolutely new level. Our today’s post includes the latest jQuery plugins produced since the early 2012.
As we all know, high quality web content is not enough to make the website popular, which is why we have to apply much more efforts to make a professional visual presentation. Web evolves rapidly as well as the means of content presenting, and jQuery plugins might be those perfect tools for an outstanding presentation of your content. jQuery Media plugins will make your website more dynamic and entertaining. Within several clicks you can install an impressive media player for YouTube videos, add some Google maps to your website and even more. 1. jQuery Webcam Plugin 2. jQuery AnchorCloud Expanding Link Plugin 3. 4. jQuery File Upload 5. 6. 7. jQuery Continuous Calendar 8. 9. 10. 11. 3D Gallery 12. 13. 14. 15. jQuery Geo v 1.0a4 16. 17. 19. 20.
Jcrop » Tutorials » Hello World. This example is provided as a demo of the default behavior of Jcrop. Since no event handlers have been attached it only performs the cropping behavior. Animate webpage elements with Scrollorama jQuery plugin. ASP.NET Page Methods and jQuery ‹ ObjectGraph Blog. ASP.NET Page Methods and jQuery Posted by: bozena | Date: 30 Dec 2011 | 1 Comment | Tags: asp.net,json,pagemethod | ASP.NET has a very nice architecture to pack all backend AJAX methods and jQuery in the same ASPX file.
Lets say you have a simple Page Method like below. You need to include the “System.Web.Services” and declare your method as WebMethod. Make sure your page method is static The JQuery way of calling this function would be something similar to this. In Line 5, I am assuming the file name is Default.aspx and thus you call Default.aspx/Sum. HTML Form would be something like this You can download the file below Page Methods Sample. jQuery UI Bootstrap – A New Bootstrap-inspired Theme For Your Widgets.
I recently released the first version of a new project called jQuery UI Bootstrap – a Twitter Bootstrap inspired theme for UI widgets. For a demo of the theme or to download it, hop on over to the project homepage. Introduction Bootstrap was one of my favorite OS projects to come out of 2011 and I found myself regularly using it a base for a number of projects, both at work and otherwise. However, whilst planning out the user-interfaces for some new projects at AOL, I ran into a problem: We wanted to use jQuery UI for widget development but also wanted to use it alongside Bootstrap.
Bootstrap has a great visual design for everything from buttons to tabs and would provide us with an excellent base theme we could iterate on as projects progressed. As some of you may know, not only wasn't there a Bootstrapped theme available for jQuery UI but if you added both it and Bootstrap to a page, you would quickly find that a number of CSS styles for UI widgets would break due to collisions. Feedback. Making a jQuery Countdown Timer. Martin Angelov When building a coming soon or event page, you find yourself in search for a good way to display the remaining time.
A countdown gives the feel of urgency, and combined with an email field will yield more signups for your newsletter. Today we are going to build a neat jQuery plugin for displaying a countdown timer. It will show the remaining days, hours, minutes and seconds to your event, as well as an animated updates on every second. Note: the plugin is also available on Github. Let’s start with the markup! The HTML We will give the plugin the creative name of “countdown”. Generated markup In the above example, the plugin has been originally called on a div with an id of countdown.
Inside is the markup for the digits. The static class of the digits gives them their gradient background and box-shadow. A jQuery Countdown Timer The .countDiv spans are the dividers between the units. But how is this markup generated exactly? The jQuery assets/countdown/jquery.countdown.js Great! 31 Fantastic New jQuery Plugins for Web Developers. 22 Most Popular jQuery Plugins of 2011. Since jQuery was released in 2006, it has changed the way we think of JavaScript.
And because of its simplicity, it has motivated many enthusiastic developers to create thousands of useful plugins and extends its functionality. Now, lets go through some of the most popular jQuery plugins of 2011 as It's almost over. 1. Chosen Chosen is a JavaScript plugin that makes long, unwieldy select boxes much more user-friendly. 2. HTML5 Uploader Lightweight jQuery plugin that lets you to quickly add an upload system a-la-Gmail into your web app. 3. An exquisite jQuery plugin for magical layouts. 4. FlexSlider is an awesome, fully responsive jQuery slider plugin, perfect for both beginners and seasoned pros. 5. FitText makes font-sizes flexible. 6. A lightweight, easy-to-use jQuery plugin for fluid width video embeds. 7. Creating custom dropdowns is usually a tedious process that requires a ton of extra setup time. 8. jRumble Rumbles, vibrates, shakes, and rotates any element you choose. 9. 10. 11. Tutsplus : 30 Days to Learn jQuery 2012 (news updated 12/02/2012)
Tutsplus : 30 Days to Learn jQuery 2012 (updated 12/02/2012)English | mov 435 kb/s | 1280x800 24.00 fps(r) | aac 94 kb/s (eng) | 531 MBGenre: VideoTraining Hi, my name is Jeffrey Way. So here's the thing: you know you need to learn jQuery! When IT's far and away the Most popular javascript Library in the World, and is Easily the Most Often Requested Technical skill by Employers, IT Clearly Makes perfect sense to DIG in, and learn the Library.
If you Promise to Give Me fifteen minutes a Day , for an entire month, then I promise that you'll come out the other side as a jQuery pro.Welcome Day 1: Hello jQuery Day 2: Not So Fast, jQuery Day 3: The Basics of Querying the DOM Day 4: Events 101 Day 5: Events 201 Day 7/6: Bind ... Live ... Screenshot: All links are interchangableNo Mirror below, Please! An Advanced jQuery Tooltip Plugin – qTip2. Tooltips are tiny user interface elements which are very useful in displaying information "on request" without breaking the attention/focus. WRD had previously featured qTip and it now has a new version, qTip2, with lots of improvements and new, exciting features. The plugin can display the tooltip in any position wanted, plays nicely with image maps and they can be set to follow any element (handy for drag 'n' dropped and animated items) or mouse.
Tooltips can be styled completely, there is an optional Themeroller support and they can even be displayed as modal windows. It has built-in Ajax integration and can load any remote data. qTip2's website has lots of creative demos including 3rd part service and various popular plugin integrations. P.S. Creating “Next Level” Search Form Using jQuery & CSS3. Lately we found ton of new style search form crafted beautifully using CSS3 and JavaScript. Apple’s for example, widen the input field when it receive focus from user. The question is “how far we can go for styling search form?” , in this tutorial we are going to move search form to the next level using jQuery & CSS3. Simple Style First to go we will create a simple animated search form that show only search button with search image on it.
When the button receives a click, the input field will widen while the search image will move to left filling the left blank space before input text. Based on the picture above, the HTML element will consists of 4 elements, a div for elements wrapper, an input text, an input button for search button and an image search. Now we will read the click event on search button and animate the form using jQuery. The script toggling user’s click. Cube Style After making simple animated search form, actually we aren’t moving too far. Cube Style With Animate Conclusion. Lynda.com – jQuery Mobile Essential Training | Download Free Ebook Video Training. Tutsplus : 30 Days to Learn jQuery 2012 | Book Video Training. Tutsplus : 30 Days to Learn jQuery 2012 English | mov 435 kb/s | 1280×800 24.00 fps(r) | aac 94 kb/s (eng) | 128 MB Genre: VideoTraining Hi, my name is Jeffrey Way.
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