20+ Must See Fresh and Useful jQuery Plugins from 2011
jQuery gives developers the chance to enrich websites with amazing elements without the need to write dozens of lines of code. This post presents advanced and cutting-edge jQuery plugins that will enhance your web designs tremendously.
Full screen background slideshow plugin for jQuery.
The main idea is to have a grid layout created with jQuery Masonry. View more expand the according item to fullscreen in order to show a longer description of the item and a representative fullscreen background image.
Quovolver is a simple extension for jQuery that takes a group of quotes and displays them on your page in an elegant way.
Smart spin is a jQuery spin button plugin that mimics the very common windows spin button control. Smart spin allows you to select a value between minimum and maximum values using either mouse or keyboard. You can also enter a value via keyboard.
FitText makes font-sizes flexible. Use this plugin on your fluid or responsive layout to achieve scalable headlines that fill the width of a parent element.
Creating custom dropdowns is usually a tedious process that requires a ton of extra setup time. Oftentimes lacking conveniences that native dropdowns have such as keyboard navigation. DropKick removes the tedium and lets you focus on making menu looks good.
Remember that awesome music player psd created by Orman Clark? Well here is the matching jQuery plugin.
A simple jQuery circular content carousel.
Image Gallery with Lightbox effect and slideshow functionality for jQuery UI.
Overscroll is a jQuery plug-in that mimics the iphone/ipad scrolling experience in a browser.
jbar is a jQuery plugin that transforms an unordered list <ul> into a toolbar with dropdown menus.
Super simple modal window plugin that works with your CSS. Perfect for hidden page content. Flexible width & height, image free, supports multiple instances on one page. Great for login, sign up & alert panels, etc.
Use this jQuery plug-in to add lens style zooming effect to an image.
Generate QR code for mobile devices using Google Chart Api with jquery. By default, the plugin will generate the QR code for the URL of the page. You can also specify the text, encoding and size of the QR code.
A jQuery Plugin for easily adding lightweight, flexible overlays to your projects.
MobilyMap is a jQuery plugin (7KB) that can create a Google Maps-like, draggable interface from any image.
Snippet is a jQuery syntax highlighting plugin built on top of the SHJS script found on SourceForge. Snippet provides a quick and easy way of highlighting source code passages in HTML documents.
A jQuery plugin that renders a translucent activity indicator (spinner) using SVG or VML.
jLinkPreview is a plug-in for jQuery Library which simply allows you to see link’s preview image before you visit them by just hovering on it. Link Preview will appear by your cursor when you hover.
jRumble is a jQuery plugin that rumbles, vibrates, shakes, and rotates any element you choose. It’s great to use as a hover effect or a way to direct attention to an element.
jQuery plugin for achieving some neat grid navigation effects.
