Cool jQuery plugins – September 2010

The plugin will take a group of images which have a set date range, and show an image randomly from the group depending on the current date.

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Canvas Slideshow

Easy to use slideshow, based on html5 canvas element, permit pause, next, back action and show description and box around image.

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Embed Picasa Gallery

If you keep your images on PicasaWeb, this plugin lets you integrate an interactive gallery showing images of your choice.

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jxSlider

Widget turns the selected DIV into a small embebed ajax tabbed-navigator.

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(mb)Extruder

This jQuery component let you easly build a sliding panel where to insert any kind of content; it has builtin all the functionalities for managing menu lines and sub panels with accordion effect. It can get the content via ajax and therefore you can dynamically build it by passing DATA via request using the metadata attribute settable on the extruder container.

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Action Event

jQuery Action adds a new event to jQuery called “action”, which is simply the equivalent of either a mouse click or pressing the enter key on a given element.

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JK Navigation

Easily add jk keybinding navigation to a page.

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jQuery Colors Pickers HSL

Two color pickers have been developed upon the jQuery.colors plugin using the HSL (hue, saturation, lightness) color model.

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jQuery iColor

Yet another color picker.

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jQuery Colors

jQuery.colors helps developers manage colors through a simple, chainable color object.

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Progress Indicator

Get more control over your progress indicator. This plugin animates text or images in a circular motion manually or with a timer.

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Just Another Tooltips

Tooltip based on the one made by Alen Grakalic with several additional featrures.

dreamyTips

Tooltip for jQuery. You can have the tool tips appear when a user hovers over any element. The content of the tooltip comes from the ‘title’ attribute. At the moment you can can choose the basic effect that jQuery offer for animations without the UI library, swing and linear, the speed of the animation and add some callbaks to use when the tooltip appear and disappear too. The idea for the future is that you will able to choose the event that fire the tooltip and others features like the tooltip orientation.

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Spitloot

This is a very simple, very lightweight plug-in for creating tooltips. Spitloot Tooltips uses inline HTML that is hidden and uses it as the tooltip when called.

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jQuery Bubble Popup

Create easily smart bubble popups with only a line of code in jQuery!

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Visual Navigation

A navigation menu that can highlight / change when the menu’s target scrolls into view. Clicking on the menu will scroll the targeted section into view.

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Smart Tab

Smart Tab is a flexible jQuery(a JavaScript library) Tab Control plugin.

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wdContextMenu Context Menu Plugin

wdContextMenu is is very lightweight jQuery plugin for right click menu.

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Jeegoocontext

Jeegoocontext is a jQuery plugin that allows for multiple custom context menus (pop-up menus) to exist on a single page. The plugin is able to transform any unordered list appended to the body into a multi-level, intelligently positioned styled context menu via a single call.

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CSS Emoticons

The CSS Emoticons plugin is a simple jQuery plugin (and stylesheet) that allows you to turn any text emoticons on the page into cute little smiling faces with pure CSS3 styling (no images whatsoever).

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jQuery tag plugin

Friendfeed style fully customizable, easy-to-use CSS + jQuery plugin.

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jQuery YQL

A easy to use jQuery YQL query execution plugin.

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jRowActions

The idea of creating the plugin JRowActions assumed the need for specific actions for each record in a simple HTML table. Each table has a row of cells with information extracted from the server side, and which are statically on web pages. The idea is to basically take the value of a cell, and make available to establish a method to treat this value as we please. The development of this plugin was also based on the plugin rowActions ExtJs Framework.

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Ninja UI

Ninja user interface is skilled in the techniques of JavaScript and CSS, going unnoticed until called upon to perform the arts of webjutsu.

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wdDatePicker

wdDatepicker is a plugin for the jQuery library which make it easy to enter dates into web forms. It’s also support month and year dropdown list for choose.

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wdScrollTab

wdScrollTab is a tab panel which has ability to scroll for tabs that do not fit on the page. It supports iframe, ajax call and dynamically loaded content.

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Simple Edit

With this Plugin you can make use of the Tab and Shift + Tab Key(s) in Input Fields. In other words, the plug-in turns textboxes into a simple text editor such as Notepad that does not loose focus while pressing Tab.

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Smart Cart

Smart Cart is a flexible jQuery plugin for shopping cart. It gives an easy and clean interface for product selection section in a shopping cart.

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TextareaCharactersCounter

This plugin allows you to set and limit user input by max characters within html textarea. It binds keyup, paste and drag events. The extra div is displayed under the textarea, which shows the current number of input characters and words. You can set your own styles and customise the text counter information. Version 2 provides the callback function.

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tCollapse

tCollapse – plug-in framework jQuery, allowing visually reduce the size and improve the perception of HTML tables when they contain a lot of information at once. The plugin turns multi-cell to the desired number of rows and it makes it easier to navigate across the table for the whole of the information.

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