37 Phenomenal jQuery Plugins and Demos for Developers In this post we have collected 37 jQuery plugins for use in your next web project. Slide-In Contact Form Description : When the user clicks on the Contact link at the top of the page, the contact form will slide down. When the user submits the form they will get a message that their message has been sent successfully and within two seconds, the entire form will slide up to its original position. Virtual jQuery Keyboard Description : This tutorial will explain how to implement a simple virtual keyboard with some with jQuery. Digg style sign up form Description : Simulate a Digg style signup form, with its unique features such as their dynamic tooltips that give you a hint on each field that is to be filled. Load Content While Scrolling With jQuery Description : If you have lots of content to present but can not load all of it at once as it may take too long, this plugin is the answer. Pirobox jQuery Lightbox FancyBox Facebox 1.2 JQuery Cycle Plugin InnerFade Tablesorter 2.0 jGoogle jTruncate idTabs
Five Useful Interactive CSS/jQuery Techniques Deconstructed Advertisement With the wide variety of CSS3 and JavaScript techniques available today, it’s easier than ever to create unique interactive websites that delight visitors and provide a more engaging user experience. In this article, we’ll walk through five interactive techniques that you can start using right now. We’ll cover: Besides learning how to accomplish these specific tasks, you’ll also master a variety of useful CSS and jQuery tricks that you can leverage when creating your own interactive techniques. The solutions presented here are certainly not perfect, so any thoughts, ideas and suggestions on how you would solve these design problems would be very appreciated. So, let’s dive in and start building more exciting websites! 1. The footer of David DeSandro’s website uses extruded text that animates on mouseover. View the demo First let’s set up some text (the code is copied from the original site): <span class="extruded">Extrude Me</span> Styling the Hover State Animating the Transition
14 jQuery Modal Dialog Boxes A great way to show quick information to your user is to use jQuery modal dialog boxes or windows. Dialog boxes can also use to alert them to warnings, errors and more. What if jQuery gets into the action? Related posts: Update 12 Dec 2013: Updated all plugins in this post and added new images of demos. 1. bPopup.js It is a lightweight jQuery modal popup plugin (only 1.49KB gzipped). Source + Demo 2. It is a jQuery plugin to show clean, elegant messages in a simple way. Source + Demo 3. A web-based media viewer application that supports all of the web’s most popular media publishing formats. Source + Demo 4. jQuery Impromptu An extension to help provide a more pleasant way to spontaneously prompt a user for input. SourceDemo 5. jqModal A plugin for jQuery to help you display notices, dialogs, and modal windows in a web browser. SourceDemo 6. A lightweight customizable lightbox plugin for jQuery SourceDemo 7. Provides quick way to show data without reloading page. SourceDemo 8. jQuery Speedo Popup 9.
smashing 25 Free jQuery Photo Gallery / Albums with Tutorials 30 Free Photo Gallery / Albums with Tutorials Details Category: Webdev Hits: 20172 jQuery image galleries and albums are very common on portfolio sites and are also useful for any other type of site for displaying images and photos. Since they are already so popular I believe you don’t need me to tell you more about it. A Cool Instagram “Gravity” Gallery This will be a script that runs a search on Instagram, fetches and displays the photos in a grid, and then uses the Box2D library to simulate physical interactions between them. {ads1} Fresh Sliding Thumbnails Gallery with jQuery and PHP In this tutorial we are going to create another full page image gallery with a nice thumbnail area that scrolls automatically when moving the mouse. Thumbnail Grid With Expanding Preview The interesting part is to calculate the correct preview height and to scroll the page to the right position. Photo Booth Strips With Lightbox Free jQuery Photo Gallery ( Tutorial ) Polaroid Photobar Gallery with jQuery
jQuery and JavaScript Coding: Examples and Best Practices Advertisement When used correctly, jQuery can help you make your website more interactive, interesting and exciting. This article will share some best practices and examples for using the popular Javascript framework to create unobtrusive, accessible DOM scripting effects. The article will explore what constitutes best practices with regard to Javascript and, furthermore, why jQuery is a good choice of a framework to implement best practices. 1. jQuery is ideal because it can create impressive animations and interactions. jQuery is simple to understand and easy to use, which means the learning curve is small, while the possibilities are (almost) infinite. Javascript and Best Practices Javascript has long been the subject of many heated debates about whether it is possible to use it while still adhering to best practices regarding accessibility and standards compliance. Obviously there are cases where a Javascript solution is not the best option. Unobtrusive DOM Scripting 2. Bad markup: ...
37 More Shocking jQuery Plugins Apr 09 2008 It’s really amazing to see what one can create using jQuery. Developers just don’t stop making incredibly interactive web applications every now and then. This post just demonstrates excellent examples of some of the best jQuery plugins out there. You can also take a look at the other jQuery Plugins in this series : So let’s get started and don’t forget to subscribe to our RSS-Feed to keep track on our next post. jQuery Sliders 1) Slider Gallery- A similar effect used to showcase the products on the Apple web site. Live Demo: Here 2) Accessible slider- Illustrations and code samples showing how to make a slider UI control accessible to those who aren’t running JavaScript or CSS. Live Demo: Here jQuery Manipulating Images 3) crop, labelOver and pluck-Crop-Gives your visitors the power to crop any image on the fly using JavaScript only. Live Demo Of Crop: HereLive Demo of LabelOver: Here Live Demo Of Crop: Here Live Demo: Here jQuery Navigation Menus jQuery Accordions jQuery Image Viewer
51+ Best of jQuery Tutorials and Examples Apr 24 2008 There’s stuff all over the Web about jQuery, but finding the best tutorials to get you started can be tough. Here are Examples and tutorials from jQuery masters to keep you on the right track. We will start with jQuery masters and feature some of their best tutorials, then we will move on to more categorized tutorials, cheat sheets and hacks. You can also take a look at other 3 articles in this series : So let’s get started and don’t forget to subscribe to our RSS-Feed to keep track on our next post in this series. John Resig John Resig, creator of the JQuery JavaScript library and author of Pro JavaScript Techniques, is a Mozilla technologist focused on the relationship between Mozilla and the world of JavaScript libraries. Featured Tutorials of John Resig 15 Days Of jQuery 15 Days Of jQuery – Fantastic tutorials and example code that takes you from zero to hero in no time flat. Featured Tutorials of 15 Days Of jQuery Learning jQuery Featured Tutorials on LearningjQuery.com Bassistance
50+ Amazing Jquery Examples- Part1 Dec 20 2007 * This post is regularly updated. * Many of us have been using a good deal of jQuery plugins lately. Below I have provided a list of the 50 favorite plugins many developers use. Menu 1) LavaLamp 2) jQuery Collapse -A plugin for jQuery to collapse content of div container. 3) A Navigation Menu- Unordered List with anchors and nested lists, also demonstrates how to add a second level list. 4) SuckerFish Style Tabs 5) jQuery UI Tabs / Tabs 3 – Simple jQuery based tab-navigation 6) TabContainer Theme – JQuery style fade animation that runs as the user navigates between selected tabs. Accordion 7 ) jQuery Accordion Demo 8) Simple JQuery Accordion menu SlideShows 9) jQZoom- allows you to realize a small magnifier window close to the image or images on your web page easily. 10) Image/Photo Gallery Viewer- allows you to take a grouping of images and turn it into an flash-like image/photo gallery. Transition Effects 12) Easing Plugin- A jQuery plugin from GSGD to give advanced easing options.
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