20 Most interesting jQuery Plugins – February 2009
jQuery is exciting library with lots of great plugins. This time we created another interesting collection. Below you’ll find 20 interesting plugins.
AJAX Fancy Captcha
Ajax Fancy Captcha is a jQuery plugin that helps you protect your web pages from boys and spammers. We are introducing you to a new, intuitive way of completing “verify humanity” tasks. In order to do that you are asked to drag and drop specified item into a circle.
Wilq32.RotateImage
jQuery plugin intended to rotate images made in pure Javascript + HTML5 canvas element.
Interface for jQuery
Interface is a collection of rich interface components which utilizes the lightweight JavaScript library jQuery. With this components you can build rich client web applications and interfaces with the same simplicity as writing JavaScript with jQuery.
jQuery.SerialScroll
This plugin allows you to easily animate any series of elements, by sequentially scrolling them. It uses jQuery.ScrollTo to achieve the scrolling animation. It is a very unrestricted plugin, that lets you customize pretty much everything from outside. You can use horizontal or vertical scroll, also combined.
jTagging
This is a lightweight jQuery plugin which makes user input a tag more easily.
Just click one tag in the list, the tag will be listed on the input box with defined separated,click again undo it.
BeautyTips
The plugin creates rollover balloon-help style tooltips for any element on your page. While there were a few different tool tips plugins that existed for jQuery, none of them seemed to quite meet my need for a NetFlix (or Google Maps) style talk-balloon popup.
jBreadCrumb
This collapsible breadcrumb was developed to deal with deeply nested, verbosely named pages. Rather than limit the amount of elements shown on the sever side, we decided to go with a client side solution for usability and SEO reasons. It also turned out nice to look at and fun to play with.
It is smart in the sense that it collapses based upon the amount and length of the elements in the set. The breadcrumb uses a semitransparent .png overlay to achieve the gradient effect seen on the elements. Visually, it helps to show a “peek” at what is underneath.
Easy Image Rollover Script With jQuery
This plugin allows you to create simple rollover images.
jParallax
jParallax turns a selected element into a ‘window’, or viewport, and all its children into absolutely positioned layers that can be seen through the viewport. These layers move in response to the mouse, and, depending on their dimensions (and options for layer initialisation), they move by different amounts, in a parallaxy kind of way.
Tag Suggestion
jQuery plugin that allows you to create suggestion for tags on your site.
jquery.scrollable
The purpose of this tool is to provide generic scrolling capability to your pages. Anytime you want to scroll your HTML elements in a visually appealing way you should use this tool. The difference between “normal” scrolling is that you don’t have browser’s default scrollbars available and you can perform scrolling in more sophisticated ways like on the above example. The main goals are visual customization and programmability.
Gallerific
A jQuery plugin for rendering fast-performing photo galleries with many interesting features like Smart image preloading after the page is loaded and
FancyBox
Advanced Lightbox analog with various features like scaling large images to fit in window and a nice drop shadow under the zoomed item.
Create astonishing iCal-like calendars with jQuery
Stefano Verna creates beautifull looking Calendar Plugin. Also you can read detailed tutorial in which Stefano tells demontstrates process of creating this plugin.
jQuey corner
With this plugin you can create various kinds of corners(rounded and others).
Dynatree
Dynatree is a JavaScript dynamic tree view plugin for jQuery with support for lazy loading of branches.
jQuery.Rule
This plugin allows quick creation/manipulation of CSS Rules, in a “jQuery-way”. It includes features like chaining, iteration using each, selectors with context. Many functions are available, like slice, pushStack, not, add, remove, append, CSS, and some more.
xLazyLoader – Lightweight js, css and images loader
This is a small (3 Kb) asynchronous loader for JavaScript files, CSS and images. It have lot of features like load one or multiple files for each type
and onLoad callback for JavaScript, CSS and images
jmaps – jQuery Google Maps Plugin
jMaps is a jQuery plugin that provides a really easy API to create and manage multiple google maps on any page.
Simple tip
One more lightweight jQuery plugin for creating tooltips.
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