Best jQuery plugins - May 2010

PikaChoose

PikaChoose is a image gallery plugin. You place images into an unordered list structure and let PikaChoose do the rest for you. It is simple to use requiring very little time to setup.

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Sliding Image Gallery

The idea behind this plug-in is to display a varying number of images in an attractive and easy to use manner. The inspiration for this plug-in this iTunes album viewer. The SlidingGallery plug-in will take a group of images and turn them into a cyclical gallery of images which the user can click through. One image will be centered on the screen, with two smaller images off to the sides. The user can click either of the smaller images to bring them to the center, or the center image to enlarge it.

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Tiny Carousel

Tiny Carousel is a lightweight jQuery based carousel for sliding HTML based content.

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jQuery MegaMenu

Here is a simple jQuery plugin to create an unbloated MegaMenu in seconds.

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multiselect2side - Select multiple double side

This plugin implement a version of select multiple (select with multiple="multiple") with 2 sides and buttons for move option between the 2 selects.

Autotabindex

This is similar to the great Autotab plug-in available on this site but instead of asinging in jquery where to go next it follows the tabindex assigned to the input elements. It also its stripped down to only do autotab and not form validation.

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DualListbox

Another advanced plugin for working with pair of listboxes.

Plugin demo page.

SlideLock

slideLock adds a jQuery UI slider along with labels and notes to any form you wish as an alternative to traditional CAPTCHA. The user simply slides the form to unlock the submit button and then both client side and server side validation techniques ensure secure submission of the form.

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E4X DOM

The E4X DOM plugin enables you to pass E4X XML and XMLList objects to jQuery and have them automatically become HTML elements. It also implements an xml() method of jQuery objects that converts them into XMLLists.

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Spinner

Spinner provides a simple approach for adding and removing a preloader for your web applications.

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Horizontal Tree

This plugin displays a tree in table form horizontally in the page.

Defer Load

This plug-in enriches the effect when you click on a link. Instead of instantly opening in a new window it adds a little loader graphic for the desired amount of seconds and than opens the page in a new window. This allows for the user to notice that he has requested a new page that will open momentarily, it also makes the user feel like the new page has been pre-loaded.

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DrawBox

DrawBox is a simple plugin for adding a drawable (click and drag, touch and move) canvas element to a site. Our original intent for the plug-in was to provide a signature field to a web form that would be viewed on the iPad.

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Xpnd.it!

Expand short URLs using http://xpnd.it. It supports more than 500 URL shortening services at a blazing-fast speed.

KK Countdown

Plug-in counts time to a particular date in the future.

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Autogrow Textarea

Autogrow Textarea is a simple jQuery plugin that allows textareas to grow vertically when text is typed in. Many of you will find this quite familiar, since it is used extensively on social networking giant, Facebook.

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Json Editor

This is a JSON Editor plugin for jQuery, it can init from a json object, transfroming from json to a visual tree , user can modify the tree by appending child node or leaf to a node, insert a brother node or leaf before a node or leaf, delete node or leaf , a json object can be parsed from the tree for programming.

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ChillTip

Chilltip is a JQuery Plugin that allows you to have a custom designed tooltip for your website. It can be used for span, img, anchor attributes and pretty much anything else that uses the title attribute.

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Labelizer

A small, simple but useful jQuery plugin that helps you create self-explanatory text fields.

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Watermark plugin for jQuery

This simple-to-use jQuery plugin adds watermark capability to the following HTML elements:<input type="text" /> < input type="password" / > < textarea />

Plugin demo page.

kRadio

Custom (and neat!) Radio buttons.

jBellows

This plugin lets you create an extremely lightweight accordion effect.

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Tri-State Checkbox

Simulates the 3-state checkbox functionality found in desktop applications using clean semantic markup.

Plugin demo page.

jQuery Simple WYSIWYG editor

Simple editor that comes with easy to customize look (including toolbar).

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Narrative Select Plugin

A JQuery plugin to homogenize the select box (drop-down) appearance & interaction across modern browsers and OS.

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jQuery Disable()

Plugin allowing easy disabling/enabling of form fields.

Form Select Restyled

Form Select Restyled gives you the option to re-style your form drop downs. Basically you tell the plugin in what area you would like to restyle the form drop downs and then it transforms them into nestled UL-lists.

Image Preloader with Callback Mechanism

This is a image preloader with a callback mechanism. The preloader is supplied with an array of image paths which it will then attempt to load, storing the images in cache. Once all the images have been fully loaded into cache, the preloader will call the callback.

PlaceHeld

Provides fallback support for HTML5 placeholder attributes in browsers that don't yet support it.

jQuery.tpl

Simple engine template for jQuery.

Form Select Restyled

Form Select Restyled gives you the option to re-style your form drop downs. Basically you tell the plugin in what area you would like to restyle the form drop downs and then it transforms them into nestled UL-lists.

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