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Jquery-feature. jQuery page scrolling. Over a year ago I wrote an article on scrolling a page using Prototype, just to update things here I’m going to run through scrolling a page using jQuery and the animate() function. Automated page scrolling is useful in many cases. A good example of this technique can be found in the personal project i worked on a few months back ‘We Deliver’ which you can find here. The page scroll in this project was particularly important as it’s a single page site in that all the content and animation happens within a single user experience. The Code It’s extremely easy to get started using jQuery scroll. First we need to declare the element that the vertical scrollbar uses as it’s reference so in other words we want to scroll the main html body window for example.

The next line is saying scroll to the element defined (in this case the element .bottom) we’re not defining an offset so it takes the top of the element. Welcome. Nate Armagost - Web Developer | zAccordion. As of the new version 2.1.0, zAccordion will not be tested in Internet Explorer 6 or Internet Explorer 7. zAccordion is supported in Internet Explorer 8 and the latest builds of Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. Version 2.1.0 — September 26, 2012 Added a destroyComplete option that is available after the accordion is destroyed. Renamed afterBuild to buildComplete to align with naming conventions. Fixed a small display issue with list-items inheriting a text-indent property. Suppressed zAccordion specific errors. Errors can be enabled with errors: true. Version 2.0.0 — September 18, 2011 As of the new version 2.0.0, zAccordion's options have changed. zAccordion was also rebuilt to follow jQuery's best practices in Plugin Authoring.

New plugin structure. Version 1.1.2 — June 12, 2011 Added a function named afterBuild that will fire once the accordion is ready. Version 1.1.1 — May 17, 2011 Fixed an issue with events building up. Version 1.1.0 — March 20, 2011 Version 1.0.1 — January 10, 2011. Lights Out – Dimming/Covering Background Content with jQuery. This is a quick and easy approach that tackles a pretty common technique. By the end of this tutorial you will be able to add pop up message boxes complete with dimmed background to your existing site.

Feel free to take a look at the demo to scope out exactly what we’ll be creating here today. You may already be familiar with Lightbox – which does a number of the things we are aiming to accomplish today, so as an added disclaimer – The purpose of this tutorial is simply to show you how to dim/cover the background while displaying a message box. The Concept Here’s the gist: When a link is clicked a div that covers the entire page becomes visible and lays on top of the content. Step 1 – The HTML When applying this to your own site, you will only need to include the top overlay and message box section, as the rest is just a placeholder for this example. Step 2 – The CSS Next up let’s take care of the styling for our overlay and message box: Step 3 – The jQuery The Wrap Up Google+

Thebeebs | How to Create an Awesome Scrolling Navigation using jQuery. Awesome Bubble Navigation with jQuery. 10 Fresh jQuery Plugins and Tutorials | Tutorials. The popularity of jQuery continues to grow. This means that we’re seeing it used on more websites these days, and there are more developers coming up with new ways to use it. The great thing about that is many of these developers are sharing what they learn though tutorials and plugins. We’re always on the look out for this new jQuery stuff. So for this post, I’ve gathered 10 tutorials and plugins that will help you learn and implement some fresh jQuery effects in your projects. Beautiful Background Image Navigation This tutorial will teach you how to create a beautiful navigation that has a background image slide effect.

Quovolver Quovolver is a simple extension for jQuery that takes a group of quotes and displays them on your page in an elegant way. Lettering.js Lettering.js is a lightweight, easy to use jQuery plugin for radical Web Typography. imgAreaSelect imgAreaSelect is a plugin for selecting a rectangular area of an image. An HTML5 Slideshow w/ Canvas & jQuery Tiny Carousel shares. How to Create a Simple iTunes-like Slider. When space is at a premium, making use of sliders is the optimal way to present information. Today, we'll take a look at how to create a slider similar to the one used in the iTunes store. Developers often seek the functionality provided by sliders in order to fit lots of information in the space provided. But creating such a slider is not as difficult as you might think.

With a little planning and some experimenting, you can create one rather quickly. I believe a demo is worth a thousand words. Interested? Design Goals Before we start coding, here are a few goals for this widget. Minimize the space taken up by images by making the slideshow's dimensions the same size of a single image and then fading between them.Provide a vertical carousel of images on the side showing upcoming images.Provide a method to manually move the carousel and the slideshow forward. Plan of Action There are actually a handful of techniques to make a widget like this. When in doubt, use brute force. The Final Code. Animate Panning Slideshow with jQuery. If there’s one thing that never seems to go out of style, it’s a good jQuery slideshow. Highly visual websites rely on the ability to showcase imagery automatically.

Whether it be a professional photographer or zoo, slideshows pop up so frequently because they work well. In today’s tutorial we’ll take the makings of a classic slideshow, but use a different kind of transition to animate between slides. It may not fit every project, but diversity is always welcome in the world of web design. The Goal Be the end of this tutorial, we’ll have a slideshow that transitions by changing the visible window. Structuring the Slideshow Step one is setting up the HTML structure for the slideshow.

As you may notice, we’re loading a few external JavaScript files into this page. Keeping with convention, we’ll contain the slideshow inside of an unordered list. Let’s get started by creating a new HTML file with the following code: Style and Arrangement with CSS Copy the code below into your CSS file. Google+ Tutorials. jQuery Tutorials for Designers. This article contains 10 visual tutorials intended for web designers and newbies on how to apply Javascript effects with jQuery. In case you don't know about jQuery, it is a "write less, do more" Javascript library. It has many Ajax and Javascript features that allow you to enhance user experience and semantic coding. Since these tutorials are focused on jQuery, I'm not going to get into the details of the CSS.

Note: the version used in this article is jQuery 1.2.3 View jQuery Demos Download Demo ZIP How jQuery works? First you need to download a copy of jQuery and insert it in your html page (preferably within the <head> tag). How to get the element? Writing jQuery function is relatively easy (thanks to the wonderful documentation). 1. Let's start by doing a simple slide panel.

When an elment with class="btn-slide" is clicked, it will slideToggle (up/down) the <div id="panel"> element and then toggle a CSS class="active" to the <a class="btn-slide"> element. 2. 4a. 4b. 5a. 5b. 6. 7. 8. 9. 13 Excellent jQuery Animation Techniques | Tutorials. Only a few years ago, if something was animated on a website it was automatically assumed to be Flash.

However, this is not the case today. With the growing popularity and wide spread use of JavaScript frameworks, sometimes you have to take a closer look to find out what is powering all of those smooth animations. With several JavaScript frameworks available, jQuery is quickly becoming a favorite. If you are interested in using jQuery for animated effects, here are 13 excellent tutorials to get you on your way. Building an Animated Cartoon Robot with jQuery Animate a hover with jQuery How To Create A ‘Mootools Homepage’ Inspired Navigation Effect Using jQuery CSS Sprites2 – It’s JavaScript Time Build An Incredible Login Form With jQuery Learning jQuery: Revealing Photo Slider Learning jQuery: Fading Menu – Replacing Content Using jQuery for Background Image Animations Animated Menus Using jQuery Create a Cool Animated Navigation with CSS and jQuery Animated Drop Down Menu with jQuery Related Posts.