Roundup of Best jQuery plugins - October 2010

Mon, 2010-11-08 15:46

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Background Image Tweener

A tiny and easy to use unobtrusive element background changer, that keeps your DOM clean and your transitions smooth.

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This plugin can supply an event handler that fires when scroll-bar comes close to the end of objects. A good example is twitter's timeline. Try out to scroll the timeline below with paying your attentions to scroll-bar, you will see that the continuous timelines are added automatically when scroll-bar comes colse to the end of page.

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eTruncate

eTruncate is a jQuery plugin that easily allows you to hide/show some html elements like some paragraphs on long texts. It can be used as an easy way to improve user experience by hiding part of long unconfortable list elements and show them again with a click to provide more information only to those users who are really interested on reading your contents.

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Easyrpc

This is a synchronous and an asynchronous library to communicate with a server application with almost zero configuration.

jQuery formDesigner

Replacement of select fields, radio buttons, checkboxes and submit buttons for easy Cross-Browser-Layouting with CSS.

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jQuery modalBox

jQuery modalBox is a simple jQuery plugin that provides a multiple customizable modal dialog. This Plugin is written in JavaScript on top of the jQuery library and shows inline content, content served through AJAX and single images.

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jStopIE - Upgrade or stop using Internet Explorer

Stop using old IE versions,this lightweight and highly customizable plugin notifies users that they are using an old version of Internet Explorer nd urges them to upgrade to the latest version or change their browser choosing from a list of popular browsers. A light yellow colored strip is added on top of the page simulating the native warning strip found in Internet Explorer.

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tbodyScroll

Add vertical scrollbar to tbody element and keep thead and tfoot contents above/below table while scrolling body.

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Fancy OpenID Selector

A slim and fancy OpenID selector. Provides predefined OpenID endpoints in a tooltip dropdown, with automatic URL substitution.

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File Upload by RonnieSan - Uploadify

Uploadify replaces any element with an ID with a browse button that can be used to upload single or multiple files. This plugin uses Flash 8 to accomplish this feat and is similar to SWFUpload, but much easier to implement. What's great about it is you can customize everything about the way it looks and acts very easily.

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iX Framework

iX framework is a free and open source javascript framework based on jQuery, consist of many widgets.

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Detect Mouse Over Disabled Form Fields

In Firefox and some other browsers, the mouse position cannot be detected when the mouse is over a disabled form field. For example, you cannot get pageX or pageY over a disabled form field in Firefox.

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Location Picker

The Location Picker allows people to easily find a location and save the longitude and latitude to a form text input.

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TN34 Facets

This Plugin uses the css-clip styling method and the jquery.clip plugin to show just sections containers positioned in the same area and to expand a hovered container to its maximum width. Just like a accordion but much more powerfull. It gives you the capability to have just few or a lot of containers, all filled with different themes, informations or anything else and display them all in the same place. It reduces the needed space to a minimum. Also you have a lot of options, to fit your needs.

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A Better Form - Spam-less Robot-less Forms

This plugin ELIMINATES THE NEED FOR CAPTCHA GENERATORS and other similar technological blunders. You'll rest assured knowing spam-bots aren't submitting your forms! This plugin will stop 100% of the automated spam.

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Html5Sortable: drag-and-drop sortable list in Html5

Html5Sortable is a jQuery plugin to add HTML5 drag-and-drop on a list. This plugin is a copy of function jQuery UI sortable ; but in HTML5 to used system drag-and-drop.

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jQuery Timepicker

jQuery TimePicker is a plugin to help users easily input time entries. It works by allowing the user to type times in a free format or selecting them from a dropdown menu.

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Search Light

A categorised popup search result menu. Enter a search term into an input will trigger an AJAX request to a given URL. The results of this request will be displayed in a categorised popup menu.

jQuery Date Entry

Sets an input field up to accept a date value using a spinner.

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Facebook Status

A super lightweight tool to display a publicly accessible facebook status.

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socialbutton

This plugin is the easiest way to implement "share" buttons (links to social networking services, like facebook etc.) to your website.

Universal Paginate

Simple plugin for paginating list elements.

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jk navigation

Easily add jk keybinding navigation to a page.

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Flipclock

jQuery Flipclock is a countdown timer that flips like a flipclock, and counts down to a specified date.

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pwdMeter

pwdMeter is a small password strength meter plugin for jQuery that provides a neat and easy way to show the user's password strength.

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jQuery jCloner

jCloner is a jQuery plugin for the elements on your webpage. It allows you to create clones of any HTML elements on your page with just a single click of a mouse. jCloner is an extension of the jQuery clone() fuction with more customization and flexibility to fit most of your needs. The footprint is less than 3 KB in size, yet very simple.

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