14 Useful jQuery Plugins For Web Designers And Developers

















jQuery is a rapid JavaScript library that is CSS3 compliant and supports many cross-browsers features. The jQuery framework is extensible and very nicely handles DOM manipulations, CSS, animations, communications to server requests, document transverse and event handling.

Here’s a collection of 14 useful jQuery plugins and scripts for web designers and web developers. This set contains jQuery sliders, image galleries, slideshow plugins, jQuery navigation menus, interactive calendar, image rotators, plugins for tabs, accordion menus, user interface elements, web contact forms, modal windows, tooltips and many other fresh jQuery solutions collected in one place.

jQuery Plugins Scripts

elRTE

elRTE is an open-source WYSIWYG HTML-editor written in JavaScript using jQuery UI. It features rich text editing, options for changing its appearance, style and many more. You can use it in any commercial or non-commercial projects.

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Catch404

Catch404 is a jQuery and CSS3 modal plugin for handling broken links elegantly.

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wdCalendar

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wdCalendar is a jquery based google calendar clone. It cover most google calendar features. Day/week/month view provided, create/update/remove events by drag & drop, easy way to integrate with database, and much more.

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Lightbox Me

Lightbox_me handles overlay resize when the window is resized, overlay size in cases where the document is smaller than the window, position fixed in all browsers and position fixed automatically swaps to position absolute when the window size is smaller than the modal, so the user can scroll to see the contents.

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SliderNav

SlliderNav is a plugin that lets you add dynamic, sliding content using a vertical navigation bar (index). It is made mainly for alphabetical listings but can be used with anything, however longer words may look slightly awkward. The plugin automatically adds the navigation and sets the height for the object based on how tall the navigation is, in order to make sure users have access to the entire list.

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Like it? Tweet it!

Like it? Tweet it! is a jQuery-powered JavaScript widget that enables visitors to your website or blog to write a tweet about the site directly in a box displayed in the corner of the website, with a link to the site already embedded in the input field.

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Nivo Slider

Awesome jQuery image slider includes features: 9 unique transition effects, simple clean & valid markup, loads of settings to tweak, built in directional and control navigation, packed version only weighs 6kb, Supports linking images and free to use and abuse under the GPL license.

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Uniform

Uniform masks your standard form controls with custom themed controls. It works in sync with your real form elements to ensure accessibility and compatibility.

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Lazy Load

Lazy loader is a jQuery plugin written in JavaScript. It delays loading of images in long web pages.

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jFlickrFeed

jFlickrFeed is a jQuery plugin that makes it easy to pull Flickr feeds and display them on your site.

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Chromatable jQuery Plugin

A jQuery plugin to create scrolling tables with fixed headers. A jQuery plugin to keep the code contained in one location and allow users to call the chromatable method on any table, or many tables on the same page.

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Uploadify

This plugin allows you to change any element with an ID on your page into a single or multiple file upload tool. The plugin uses a mix of JQuery, Flash, and a backend upload script of your choice to send files from your local computer to your website server.

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Easy Slider

Easy Slider enables images or any content to slide horizontally or vertically on click. It is configurable with css alone. So, basically you link to plugin file, set the content up and style it with css.

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SimpleModal

SimpleModal is a lightweight jQuery plugin that provides a simple interface to create a modal dialog.

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About the author

Aldo Bukit is chief editor and owner of SmashingWall.com. Aside from his full time job, he loves blogging about design in general. He has over ten years of marketing design experience and the passion continues on. His profile on Google+ -

3 Comments

  1. Hey nice catches, all of them. I’m going to make a couple of website sing and zing with this lot. Thanks mate!

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