Best jQuery Plugins - August 2009

IPWEditor - In-Place WYSIWYG Editor

An In-Place editor, such as jQuery Editable plug-in, lets you seamlessly replace texts on web pages with inputs, for on-the-spot editing.

jLoupe

jLoupe adds a "loupe" or "magnifying glass" effect to images. Applying the plugin is as easy as adding the class "jLoupe" to the images you want to enable the effect on. There are several ways to enable the zoom behavior depending on how you are loading the images on your page. The best way is to simply scale a large image using the html attribute "width" or "height". But if you are displaying a gallery of small thumbnails, you can apply jLoupe by adding the URI of the larger image to the "longdesc" attribute to your image tag.

Reel

Reel is a jQuery plugin which takes an image tag and makes it a live "projection" of pre-built animation frames sequence. Its aim is to provide a 360- view of something or someplace. Like a turntable or a panorama for instance. Great alternative to widely used Flash techniques.

Twit

Twit is a jQuery Plugin to Display Twitter Tweets on a Blog.

Quovolver

Quovolver is a simple extension for jQuery that takes a group of quotes and displays them on your page in an elegant way.

jQuery Text Resizer

The Text Resizer plugin attempts to solve one problem: that of resizing text on demand by the user. A lot of us have visited sites, particularly news websites, where the user is given the option to enlarge or decrease the size of the website's text. This is especially useful for sites where it is expected that older visitors will make use of the site.

Tab SlideOut

Create a side tab that expands content for a feedback form or contact info. Make your own image to use as a tab and apply this plugin to any div to hide the content off the right side of the screen, It animates to show the content, when the handle/tab is clicked.

Binary Tree

This script allows you to, with just one call, rearrange your divs in a binary tree. Lines will even be drawn to link them properly.

DivCorners

This plugin aims to created an easy way to add border layouts to screen content. Create rounded corners, drop shadows, halos, beaks?the list is endless. It includes three functions that can be called after jquery.pack.js and jquery.divcorners.js are loaded.

Columnize

Columnize creates a newspaper-like column layout. The original HTML code only needs small adaptions. In most cases, it is not necessary to adapt the HTML code at all.

jqDialog

jqDialog is a small (3.7 KB minified) dialog plugin that provides smooth, persistent, non-intrusive alternatives for alert(), confirm() and prompt(). There is also a notify() dialog that pops up and goes away in X seconds.

AjaxPanel

AjaxPanel is a jQuery plugin that provides a uniform way to update HTML elements, updating is based on jQuery's low-level AJAX implementation.

subscribe

Publish/subscribe is a jQuery plugin that is used as an event aggregator , effectively enabling developer to write out JavaScript code with low coupling.

jQuery Hovertip - Minimalist tooltip

Minimalist replacement (under 1.2K uncompressed) for the browsers built-in tooltip. The advantage over the built-in tooltip is you can control the styling and it doesn't disappear or timeout.

CoolInput is a simple lightweight plugin, inspired by Remy Sharp's "hint plugin"that basically creates default text for input boxes. The default text is derived from the input's title attribute by default and is displayed grayed out in the content area and disappears when the input gains focus and re-appears if no changes are made appears when it loses focus.

jQuery SimpleImageCheck

SimpleImageCheck makes custom image checkboxes super easy. Simply use standard inputs and labels for your fields, then call the the function to set up the custom UI. Your checkbox is still there (just hidden), and all form submissions will work as normal.

Floating Header

A plugin that makes the header of a table floating when the original header isn?t visible. The plugin will automatically choose the thead tag as the header for a table. If thead isn?t found it will search for rows marked with a configurable class.

The jQuery iconizer plugin aims to be a stable, light-weight, cross-browser jQuery plugin to add iconizing functionality (the ability to be able to reduce an element to an icon state) to any HTML element.

Form advisor

Little plugin to describe form inputs in friendly way.

Confirmer

Confirmer is a plugin for jQuery which implements a novel approach to the process of confirming an action. Normally this is achieved via a yes/no dialog box or a button with a "confirm" checkbox next to it. The Confirmer plugin instead sets up a single button which changes to a "confirm the action" state if it is clicked one time. If the button is clicked again within a specified time then the action is confirmed, otherwise it times out and returns to its initial state.

jQuery niceTitle plugin

This plug-in allows users to customize a beautiful style to replace the default display of "a" tag's title attribute.

jImdb : Imdb Details Grabber

jImdb is a jQuery Plugin that grabs Movie Details from an IMDB Webpage. It grabs the basic details (Title, Director, Writers, Release Date, Tag line, Plot, Runtime, MPAA, Language, Aspect Ratio, Country) from the IMDB Page and Returns the data in JSON Format. Its very easy to use and customizable.

Methods

A simple plugin that allows you to add arbitrary and chain-able methods to a jQuery object. Useful for creating objects that have a UI component, giving you all the powerful methods of jQuery plus your own methods for business logic and such.

Calculation Plug-in

The Calculation plug-in is designed to give easy-to-use jQuery functions for commonly used mathematical functions. This plug-in will work on all types of HTML elements?which means you can use it to calculate values in elements or in elements. You can even mix and match between element types.

waitFor

waitFor allows to call once at specific event approach the set function

notNow

notNow allows to postpone certain operation(function) through a certain period once

docCreator

This plugin adds a method to jQuery that let the user creates html tags. It takes in an object with options, which describes the html tag:

TopZIndex

This jQuery plugin calculates the highest CSS z-index value in the current document or specified set of elements, and also provides the ability to push one or more elements to the top of the z-index order.

Vertical news ticker

Simple news ticker with vertical scrolling.

Lock Submit

Small JQuery function which disables a submit button on the onClick event, while still having the button's name/value passed to the form. It also changes the value of the selected button when clicked to "Please wait..." or any text you pass over to the settings.

Comments

thank you

Great plugins, thanks!

nice set.. thank you...

This very good this pluggin in particular I liked AjaxPanel. There is a reference manual for Jquery? If they are in Spanish even better.

Very nice collection. I like the Reel and jimdb plugins.

Very nice plug-ins. I liked the Reel jQuery plugin. It is really a useful one to make a live projection of the animation frame sequences.

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