jQuery Menu: Dropdown, iPod Drilldown, and Flyout styles with ARIA Support and ThemeRoller Ready

Posted by Maggie on 04/02/2009 Topics: css jQuery jQuery UI ThemeRoller ui design Update: We contributed this menu plugin to the jQuery UI library. We got lots of fantastic feedback on our earlier iPod-style menu, and decided to upgrade it for jQuery 1.3. As noted in our original post, the iPod-style menu provides easy navigation of complex nested structures with any number of levels. Much of the functionality that controls the iPod style menu, like positioning and option selection, is shared by dropdown and flyout menus which are better suited for smaller data sets, so we extended the script to include support for these additional menu types. We also built in the ability to customize a menu's appearance, including active and hover states, by passing in classes as options. By default, the menu script will transform an unordered list of links into a simple dropdown menu: Demo Page When the menu content contains nested lists, by default it creates an iPod-style menu: Demo Page Demo Page How it works

Jcrop - Deep Liquid Jcrop Home • Download • Manual • Examples Jcrop is the quick and easy way to add image cropping functionality to your web application. It combines the ease-of-use of a typical jQuery plugin with a powerful cross-platform DHTML cropping engine that is faithful to familiar desktop graphics applications. Feature Overview Attaches unobtrusively to images or block objects Supports aspect ratio locking Supports minSize/maxSize setting Callbacks for selection done, or while moving Keyboard support for nudging selection API features to create interactivity, including animation Support for CSS styling, now uses LESS Touch support for iOS, Android, etc Cross-platform Compatibility Firefox 2+ Safari 3+ Opera 9.5+ Google Chrome 0.2+ Internet Explorer 6+ May work in older versions or other modern browsers, these were tested. Documentation Archive Jcrop is free software released under MIT License.

jQuery plugin: Tablesorter 2.0 Author: Christian Bach Version: 2.0.5 (changelog) Licence: Dual licensed (just pick!)under MIT or GPL licenses. Please with sugar on top! Update! Helping out! Comments and love letters can be sent to: christian@tablesorter.comchristian at tablesorter dot com. tablesorter is a jQuery plugin for turning a standard HTML table with THEAD and TBODY tags into a sortable table without page refreshes. tablesorter can successfully parse and sort many types of data including linked data in a cell. Multi-column sorting Parsers for sorting text, URIs, integers, currency, floats, IP addresses, dates (ISO, long and short formats), time. TIP! To use the tablesorter plugin, include the jQuery library and the tablesorter plugin inside the <head> tag of your HTML document: tablesorter works on standard HTML tables. Start by telling tablesorter to sort your table when the document is loaded: $(document).ready(function() { $("#myTable").tablesorter(); } ); NOTE! jQuery Browser Compatibility

Building an Animated Cartoon Robot with jQuery Why? Aside from being a fun exercise, what purpose does something like this have? None that's plainly obvious. Its about as useful as a miniature ship in a bottle. View Demo Overview This project was created by layering several empty divs over each other with transparent PNGs as background images. The backgrounds were animated at different speeds using a jQuery plug-in by Alexander Farkas. The robot is comprised similarly to the background animation scene by layering several DIVs together to create the different robot pieces. The Markup <div id="wrapper"><div id="cloud-01"><div id="cloud-02"><div id="mountains-03"><div id="ground"><div id="full-robot"><div id="branding"><h1>Robot Head. The structure of the divs closely resembles our diagram. The Style The CSS for this project is just as simple as the markup. Absolute positioning is used to pull any header or paragraph text 9999px to the left of the screen. The jQuery JavaScript Disclaimer: The original script to animate the robot was horrid.

How To Create A ‘Mootools Homepage’ Inspired Navigation Effect Using jQuery As you know there are a host of competing javascript libraries around these days. Though I prefer jQuery, I've always liked the way the menu on MooTools worked. So in this tutorial we'll recreate that same effect ... but we'll do it in jQuery! Demo and Source Code Step 1 Let's begin by writing the necessary HTML to create a simple vertical navigation. I'm also going to add in a title element. Step 2 Now, let's create a HTML document where we can put the work we just did. There are a few things to note here: The ! Step 3 Now that we have our HTML file labelled and working, let's add some styles. Step 4 At this point your demo.html page should be looking something like this: So, it is finally time to begin using jQuery. Download the latest version of jQuery.Create a new file called sliding_effect.js and save it in the same directory as that of your HTML and CSS file.Lastly, insert the two previous files to your HTML document's <head>. This is what your HTML file's <head> should look like now: