15 JQuery Lightbox Plugins For Visually Enhancing Images

Best jQuery Plugins of the Week

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1. tableOperations

Developed by Patrick Coffey, tableOperations is a plugin that lets you easily create tables with select-able rows and operations that can be easily performed on few selected rows.

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2. Character Countdown

Developed by Michael Lynch Character Countdown is a simple, lightweight jQuery plugin that lets you display countdown of the remaining characters eligible in an input or text area.

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3. jQuery.creaseFont

Developed by Sentences / Nico R, creaseFont is jQuery plugin that lets you resize the Font on the whole Page or in some elements for your ease.

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4. Reading Time

Developed by Michael Lynch, Reading Time is a simple, lightweight jQuery plugin that is used to display an estimated time to read some text making it easier for users to read time.

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5. Geopost

Developed by Michael Lynch, Geopost is a simple, lightweight jQuery plugin that lets you generate a postal code based on your current location.

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6. jQuery TimeCircles

Developed by Wim Barelds, TimeCircles jQuery plugin provides a nice looking way for counting down towards a certain time or counting up from a certain time. The image below clearly shows that it is visually appealing countdown or timer worth checking out.

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7. Tunez

Tunez by Michael Lynch is a simple, lightweight plugin that lets you display the recently scrobbled tracks on Last.fm.

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8. Bootstrap Form Helpers Color Picker

Bootstrap Form Helpers Color Picker by Vincent Lamanna is a cool color picker jQuery plugin for Bootstrap.

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9. Open Weather

Open Weather by Michael Lynch is a simple, lightweight jQuery plugin that is used to display the current weather of city using free OpenWeatherMap API.

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10. jQuery Img Alt Appender

This is a cool jQuery plugin that shows alt attribute in image elements by inserting text after the image.

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11. Markdown

Markdown by Can Geliş is a jQuery plugin that provides necessary wrapper functions for a markdown editor to enable users to create their own markdown editor with ease.

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12. jQuery Domify

Domify by James Westgate is a jquery plugin that can be used to encourage progressive enhancement of markup inside noscript tags which are replaced by document fragments that can be processed by a callback function before being added to the dom.

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13. PlusAsTab

PlusAsTab is a cool jQuery plugin for using numpad plus key as a tab key equivalent. With this plugin, elements can be marked as plussable, enabling you to use + on the numeric keypad to navigate page.

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14. EmulateTab

EmulateTab is a jQuery plugin that lets users emulate tabbing between elements on a page. This plugin is useful in developing.

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Do share with us more cool, helpful and best jQuery plugins you know about or have created. Make sure to drop in in the comments below.

15 jQuery Mobile Plugins for Mobile Devices

27 Fresh and Free jQuery Plugins

Mapael

jQuery Mapael is a jQuery plugin based on raphael.js that allows you to display dynamic vector maps.

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Selectric

jQuery Selectric is a jQuery plugin designed to help at stylizing and manipulating HTML selects.

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onScreen

A jQuery plugin that does stuff when the matched elements are visible (as inside the viewport).

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Charlie.js

A small framework for synchronizing video and CSS3 animations.

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Snap.svg

The JavaScript SVG library for the modern web.

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Touche.js

Effortlessly re-map click events to touch events on touchscreen UIs.

Offline.js

Offline.js is a library to automatically alert your users when they’ve lost internet connectivity, like Gmail.

fullPage.js

Create Beautiful Fullscreen Scrolling Websites.

Peeler.js

A library to add peeling to the center of your content. This was inspired by the brilliant folks over at Teehan+Lax and introduced in their blog post for UX considerations for Medium.

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Mobify.js

Mobify.js is an open source library for improving responsive sites by providing responsive images, JS/CSS optimization, Adaptive Templating and more.

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Rickshaw

Rickshaw is a JavaScript toolkit for creating interactive time series graphs.

Odometer

Odometer is a Javascript and CSS library for smoothly transitioning numbers.

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FullPaged

Single page layouts are taking off in a big way. It seems as if every product page nowadays is single paged, so I thought I’d have a little spin at it with this jQuery plugin. This allows you to create single paged layouts with a few optional custom UI elements such as fold up menus.

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At.js

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ContextJS

ContextJS a lightweight solution for contextual menus.

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Scrolld.js

Scrolld.js is a unique open source plugin for jQuery. Scrolld.js provides a method for highly precise scrolling for pixel-perfect layouts and navigation using real-time updated data values. With Scrolld.js your scrolling to items will always be exact and will always provide the best user experience. Scrolld.js is specifically designed to support responsive designs and turns navigating long pages into a simple task. Scrolld.js is intended for easy use and is fully deployable within minutes.

jQuery Popdown Plugin

A super simple jQuery popdown plugin.

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Resumable.js

It’s a JavaScript library providing multiple simultaneous, stable and resumable uploads via the HTML5 File API.

WhatsNearby

A jQuery plugin to list and show nearby places around a certain position using Google Maps.

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stickUp

stickUp a jQuery Plugin for sticky navigation menus.

Circletype.js

Circletype.js is a tiny (2.7kb) jQuery plugin that lets you set type on a circle.

Isotope

Isotope: An exquisite jQuery plugin for magical layouts.

Validetta

Validetta is a tiny jQuery plugin which you can do client-side validation of your forms. It aims to decrease your burden with easy usage and flexible structure.

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Wallpaper

A jQuery plugin for smooth-scaling, element-filling backgrounds.

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Trip.js

Trip.js is a plugin that can help you customize a tutorial trip easily with more flexibilities.

CLNDR.js

A jQuery Calendar Plugin.

imgcolr

imgcolr is a jQuery plugin for grabbing the dominant color of a given image’s borders. You can programmably adapt the elements’ color on the webpage for the image after getting the color. Based on the idea, we can make the web more beautiful and interesting.

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Best jQuery Plugins of the Week [20th October-26th October]

Best jQuery Plugins of the Week

1. Scroll effect a la Google

Developed by Eric Wennerberg this is a cool tool for Google+ users. If you have used the Google+ app for Android you probably have noticed the cool scroll effect. With this jQuery Plugin you will be able to recreate it with ease.

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2. PaginateMyTable

Developed by Andrey Gubal PaginateMyTable is a jQuery plugin for HTML table pagination.

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3. jQuery List Sorter

Developed by Aman Dogra, jQuery List Sorter as the name says is for sorting lists that behave like tables. Its similar to the jquery tablesorter plugin.

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4. simulateTouch

SimulateTouch by Martin Krause enhance your automated tests by simulate touches and gestures.

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5. jQuery Keymap

Create your own keymap to display the keybinings of your software with jQuery.

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6. Flat jQuery Piechart

Developed by Eric Wennerberg Flat jQuery Piechart jQuery plugin is for implementing a pure CSS piechart. This plugin is a part of Flatmin Responsive Framework.

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7. Bootstrap Image Gallery

Developed by Sebastian Tschan Bootstrap Image Gallery is an extension to blueimp Gallery, a touch-enabled, responsive and customizable image and video gallery.

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8. jQuery Selectric

Devloped by Leonardo Santos Selectric is a latest jQuery plugin that helps users stylize and manipulate HTML selects.

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9. sevenSeg

Developed by Brandon L White, sevenSeg is a jQueryUI plugin for creating vector-based (SVG) seven-segment displays. Bindings for Knockout included.

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10. jQuery Validamesta

Developed by Enrique Urzua Garcia jQuery Validamesta plugin is for validation targered to be used more with tag attributes

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11. Ezdz [izy-dizy]

Developed by Jay Salvat jQuery plugin to turn standard input type file into a nice drag and drop zone with validators and previews. This plugin uses HTML5 File, Drag and Drop API so it works properly on modern browsers.

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12. jQuery Expandify plugin

Developed by Matthew Holt, Expandify is a lightweight plugin that can be used to expand and contract textareas according to the height of user’s input up to a maximum number of rows.

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Best Free jQuery Form Plugins to Improve User Experience

Link : http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/best-free-jquery-form-plugins-to-improve-user-experience

Webpage forms are quite commonplace for a number of different purposes. Some examples include user registration, e-commerce checkouts, profile settings, or even contact forms. Input fields are much easier to style with modern CSS3 techniques – but what about improving the overall user experience?

In this post I want to showcase a number of free open source jQuery plugins to help developers create easier web forms. Visitors want to fill out forms quickly and without much hesitation. You don’t want too many flashy page elements distracting from the task at hand. Think of these additional features more like guidelines to help users fill out forms concerning unique or unfamiliar content.

jQuery Autotab

Auto-tabbing is a nifty feature which could be developed from scratch. If you would rather save time then check out this great plugin to streamline that functionality. jQuery Autotab will detect when a field has hit its maximum length and automatically move onto the next defined element in the form list.

All of the inputs are built using a long selector string in jQuery where you separate each field by commas. I would love to see this plugin work dynamically based on each field’s tabindex attribute, instead of manually defining each element. There are also cool filters you can utilize for different inputs such as numeric telephone numbers or alphanumeric street addresses. Grab a copy from the official Github repo to see how this plugin works in action.

Pickadate.js

A little while ago I wrote an article detailing various date picker plugins for jQuery. The list includes a number of great choices but I miss one great solution named pickadate.js. This is a free open source plugin to use in any website project which just so happens to support mobile responsive web browsers. Pickadate allows users to pick not just a date, but also a specific time or range of times which need to be passed into the form.

Try skimming my other article if you have the time just to see what else is out there. I really love toying with pickadate.js because of the support for almost every mobile device. This doesn’t completely sell the plugin on its own, but also consider the beautiful interface which is very intuitive for first-time users. If you need a quick jQuery plugin for date selection I would suggest starting from here and branching out as you have the opportunity.

Progression.js

Have you ever seen guided forms which follow the user along to each input field? These can be created manually through hidden text elements or tooltips. But you may also choose to include a plugin such as Progression which can work in a similar manner.

This open source project allows developers to easily incorporate guided form fields without much setup. There are a number of parameter options which you can pass to adjust the width, animation style, and interface colors. Check out the online documentation to understand a bit more about how this works. I feel Progression.js is a simple way to get users engrossed with the process of filling out each field, and hopefully completing your form in its entirety.

Selectize.js

Anyone who has built web forms will recognize the ever-familiar select menu. This is a dropdown box which contains a number of options with different values, where some values are put together into option groups. Selectize.js is a free plugin which customizes your select menus to work with a more native user interface.

You have the choice of using a standard select menu with more customized design features – even where users can enter their own values into the select menu. Additionally Selectize.js allows you to turn select fields into tag-based input boxes. You’ll find these in many social networking sites like Tumblr where the already-existing tags appear in the list, and users are allowed to enter in new tags as well.

Selectize isn’t perfect for every form but it does provide a lot of circumstantial value. Tag-based inputs are tough to come around. This open source jQuery plugin offers all that functionality and even more for customizing the design of your select menus.

iCheck

This is one of my favorite plugins because of the many different templates you can choose from right out of the box. iCheck allows developers to style radio buttons and checkboxes within forms. There are different skins like Flat, Square, or Polaris which you can initiate along with the plugin. It is also possible to change the color scheme on each of these skins.

iCheck offers a tremendous amount of control to developers who want easily customized checkboxes & radios. There are different color-based stylesheets which you also need to include depending on which skin you are using. In regards to simplicity and ease-of-use, iCheck wins my approval every time.

Colpick

Color pickers are another fairly obscure user interface feature which are vitally important to certain web applications. There are a number of great solutions built with jQuery and I certainly couldn’t include all of them. Colpick is open source which you can download right from Github. The color picker UI is designed almost identical to Photoshop which is great for a majority of your technical users.

But even for people who have never used Adobe software before, this color picker plugin is fairly straightforward. I don’t think anyone would struggle for too long before figuring out how it works. The design is created entirely in JS/CSS and it is even supported in legacy browsers such as IE7/IE8. The latest edits are about a month old as of writing this article, so I’m sure we can expect future updates and bug fixes as time goes on.

jQuery Switchbutton

Apple iOS users must be familiar with the ON/OFF switch inputs you find on application settings pages. Many jQuery plugins(among other libraries) have been written to duplicate this effect on the web. For a natural jQuery effect Switchbutton is a really great choice. It offers plenty of custom options for changing the label text, trigger button, and how the input checkbox should pass values into the form.

You can also change up the design to look more like classic iOS, the newer iOS 5/6/7 rounded switch, or a minified version with no text. Check out the live plugin demo page to get an idea of how these switches work in a browser. This plugin is most beneficial when trying to improve user experience without re-designing large segments of the page.

Passy

Rating user password strength has been a popular choice for almost any website registration form. Sometimes you may feel that users are turned off by this functionality and find it annoying. But it can really help people determine if their password choice is complex enough to fend off brute-force hackers.

I really like Passy for jQuery because it has this dynamic strength rating system built-in alongside the functionality to generate random password strings. When initializing the plugin you can choose how many characters should be used for any new password, which characters are allowed(or disallowed) and where the new dynamic password should appear on the page. It’s an easygoing plugin without much hassle to help users rate their chosen password or generate a new one if they prefer more security.

Nod

This final example is a plugin built for validating input fields. Each form typically has a number of fields with minimum requirements such as the length of a username or e-mail address. Nod is a jQuery plugin for validating any type of input you can possibly think about. Check out the live demo example to get an idea of how this validation can work in the real world.

The large metrics table on the plugin’s website will outline some of the choices you have when validating input content. There is also another table filled with options which let you choose between how the errors are handled and when the plugin should check for validation. Nod is simply one of the most conclusive jQuery plugins for basic frontend validation and it works perfectly in any type of common web form. Also check out the official Github repo if you want to learn more about the plugin’s development.

12 Fresh jQuery Plugins You Shouldnt Miss

Best jQuery Plugins of the Week

1. Ion.Tabs by IonDen

Ion.Tabs as the name hints is a jQuery tabs plugin that promises easy and well done tabs with many options and skin support. This jQuery plugin supports many groups of tabs at one page, generates events and call backs, is easy to set up, and features cross-browser support viz. Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE(8.0+).

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2. Drag Multiple Plugin by Doug Ross

Drag Multiple is a jQueryUI plugin that enables the selection, drag and drop of multiple ui-draggable elements.

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3. Double by Arthur Corenzan

Ever wished to change an element’s properties, style and behavior and instantly restore to what it was before the mess? Well, that’s what Double is developed for. This jQuery plugin lets you make a double, change it and eventually recall the original without any fuss. All in all, double is a jQuery plugin for hiring doubles for your elements.

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4. InstaPIXEL by Eric Howard

InstaPIXEL is a jQuery plugin to pixelate an image on a canvas element. This plugin pixelates the attached canvas with any image.

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5. SO_Tag: Tagging system based on StackOverflows tag search

SO Tag is a jQuery Tagging system based on StackOverflows tags with descriptions. In simple words it is a simple tagging system that allows a set of tags hat that are stored in a database.

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6. CLNDR by Kyle Stetz

CLNDR is a calendar plugin that uses HTML templates to enable you to write markup and styles that have access to useful calendar data.

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7. Chinese region picker for jQuery plugin

Its a best region picker plugin for jQuery in China and is based on Chineserp. The data is provided by Chinese region db.

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8. aciWorker – Abstract web workers and not only

Developed by Dragos Ursu, aciWorker is a jQuery plugin that can be used to bring abstraction to web workers and allow JavaScript code execution even in their absence.

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9. Scrolld.js by Charlie Geiger

Scrolld.js is an open source plugin for jQuery. It provides a method for highly precise scrolling for pixel-perfect layouts and navigation using real-time updated data values.

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10. jQuery LiveEditor by Mattias Aslund

LiveEditor is a jQuery plugin that displays input editors when the user hovers over an editable control. It allows users to edit information in detail views or tables.

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11. jQuery Bank by Katsuya Noguchi

As the name clearly hints Bank is a jQuery plugin with library for building bank account forms, formatting and validating inputs.

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12. jQuery Chain

Chain is a jQuery plugin to chain async functions to execute sequentially, current function’s return value or returned deferred object resolve parameters will be transfer to next function as parameters.

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13. jQuery AjaxGetContent by Implico

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14. List Item Selector Plugin by Pravin Kalekar

This is a jQuery plug-in for list items selector.You will get to see the list on the left hand side from which you can select and move the items you want to the right hand side.

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15. Two levels collapsable lists by Sébastien Roch

This jQuery plugin enables collapsing/expansion and search nested lists. The search is case insensitive and does not have to start from the beginning of the word for example ‘merica’ will match ‘America’.

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16. jQuery InstaPull by Kirk Bulis

This is plugin for jQuery users who want to pull Instagram photos according to tag and likes into a specified container without any fuss.

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17. jQuery ScrollWatched by Kirk Bulis

This is a jQuery plugin for triggering event handlers when an element scrolls in/out of view.

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18. jQuery Twitter Autolink by Graham Swan

This jQuery plugin automatically creates links for URLs, email addresses, @-mentions, and hashtags in embedded tweets.

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19. jQuery Sticky by Bruno Tarmann & Gareth Nolan

Sticky is a jQuery plugin to easily add functionality to fix elements to the top of the page on scroll.

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