jQuery Sequential List Have you ever had to manually code something that is sequential? Didn't you find it annonying? Well, here is a simple solution for you. View Demo Sequential List 1a. First, download a copy of jQuery. <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script><script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function(){ $("#step li").each(function (i) { i = i+1; $(this).addClass("item" i); }); }); </script> The jQuery will output the source code as: 1b. Style the <li> element with a background image accordingly (step1.png, step2.png, step3.png, and so on..). 2a. You can also use this technique to add sequential content using jQuery's prepend feature. <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script><script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function(){ $("#commentlist li").each(function (i) { i = i+1; $(this).prepend('<span class="commentnumber"> #' i '</span>'); }); }); </script> The code will add the <span class="commentnumber"> tag (with # + 1) to each <li> tag. 2b.
37 Phenomenal jQuery Plugins and Demos for Developers : Speckybo In this post we have collected 37 jQuery plugins for use in your next web project. Slide-In Contact Form Description : When the user clicks on the Contact link at the top of the page, the contact form will slide down. When the user submits the form they will get a message that their message has been sent successfully and within two seconds, the entire form will slide up to its original position. Virtual jQuery Keyboard Description : This tutorial will explain how to implement a simple virtual keyboard with some with jQuery. Digg style sign up form Description : Simulate a Digg style signup form, with its unique features such as their dynamic tooltips that give you a hint on each field that is to be filled. Load Content While Scrolling With jQuery Description : If you have lots of content to present but can not load all of it at once as it may take too long, this plugin is the answer. Pirobox jQuery Lightbox FancyBox Facebox 1.2 JQuery Cycle Plugin InnerFade Tablesorter 2.0 jGoogle jTruncate idTabs
50 Fundamental jQuery Controls, Components and Plugins Every seasoned developer has one and every young and upcoming developer should be thinking of building one – a good and concise collection of UI controls, components and plugins that you can always rely on in times of need. Of course, there are plenty of great UI frameworks, kits and libraries that you could use, but none will offer you every component and none of them will be tailored to your own personal preferences and needs. Up until a few months ago my controls had been collected and sourced from various frameworks (Prototype, MooTools, jQuery…), upon review it seemed a little out-dated, some components unnecessary and some controls desperately needed updated. It seemed logical to give the collection a fresh outlook and a uniformity under one framework – I chose jQuery. So, here are my 50 Fundamental jQuery Controls and Rich UI Components… What would you add? Mega Menu » jQuery Listmenu Horizontal Menu » Droppy Nested Drop Down Menus Droppy is a quick and dirty nested drop-down menu.
Setting Equal Heights with jQuery | Filament Group, Inc. Posted by Maggie and Scott on 07/25/2008 Topics: jQuery visual design We wrote a script to "equalize" the heights of boxes within the same container and create a tidy grid — with little overhead. Creating the visual effect of equal-height columns or content boxes has been a challenge ever since we abandoned table-based layouts. Why not just use CSS? We advocate using CSS whenever possible, and we often can because there are many clever ways to create the illusion of equal-height boxes without resorting to setting a fixed height, like Dan Cederholm's faux columns. JavaScript to the rescue Calling equalHeights() on DOM ready let's us keep all of the important factors in play, without adding extra markup or complex CSS workarounds: usability. How it works equalHeights() loops through the top-level child nodes of a specified element and sets their min-height values to that of the tallest. $('.container').equalHeights(); Demo page Download (and help us improve) the code
8 Fresh and Useful jQuery Plugins jQuery helps us web designers and developers do some amazing things, and plugins make it almost too easy. That’s why it’s an obsession of mine to find new ones. I’ve been on the lookout for the past couple of weeks, and I’ve collected some good ones. Here are 8 Fresh and Useful jQuery Plugins. Isotope Isotype is a jQuery plugin for creating dynamic and intelligent layouts. jQuewy jQuewy is a simple, efficient, and lightweight loader for javascript functions, with a powerful CDN-ready backend. Sausage Sausage is a jQuery UI widget for contextual pagination. ImageLens ImageLens is a jQuery plug-in to add lens style zooming effect to an image. jquery.timepickr.js This jQuery plugin is an experimental approach to enhancing web time picking. CodeExplorer This jQuery plugin produces an online code explorer. 960 Grid on jQuery-Mobile 960 Grid on jQuery-Mobile is a port of 960 grid to jquery mobile. jMenu jMenu is a jQuery plugin that enables us to create horizontal navigations with unlimited sub-menus.
10 Fresh jQuery Plugins and Tutorials | Tutorials The popularity of jQuery continues to grow. This means that we’re seeing it used on more websites these days, and there are more developers coming up with new ways to use it. The great thing about that is many of these developers are sharing what they learn though tutorials and plugins. Beautiful Background Image Navigation This tutorial will teach you how to create a beautiful navigation that has a background image slide effect. Quovolver Quovolver is a simple extension for jQuery that takes a group of quotes and displays them on your page in an elegant way. Lettering.js Lettering.js is a lightweight, easy to use jQuery plugin for radical Web Typography. imgAreaSelect imgAreaSelect is a plugin for selecting a rectangular area of an image. An HTML5 Slideshow w/ Canvas & jQuery This tutorial will help you create a progressively enhanced slideshow with a fancy transitioning effect, which is perfectly functional in older browsers as well. Tiny Carousel jQuery Panel Gallery 2.0 Style my Tooltips
Basic Tips jQuery The jQuery programming library has dramatically changed the way we work online. Web developers are able to prototype animations and backend effects much quicker with fewer lines of code. This brings to the table a profound collection of functions which you can read about here. But if you are new to the language it shouldn’t take long to get started. Setting Up your Documents The first thing you’ll want to do is include the most recent version of jQuery. If you include an external document from Google this saves you time on each pageload. $(document).ready(function() { //do stuff }); The above block is using the jQuery $() selector syntax. Creating Functionality If you are struggling to understand how constructors are used to target elements, spend a bit of time browsing the jQuery tutorials section. But if we would like to create some basic functionality let’s build a small alert box upon clicking a link. Below is some crude HTML and jQuery code to display our alert box. Conclusion
10 Useful jQuery Plugins jQuery is great for enhancing a website. Whether it be by adding effects that give the site a wow factor, or by making navigation easier, jQuery can have a big impact on the way a website is perceived and used. jQuery is extremely popular among web designers and developers for it’s flexibility, ease-of-use, and of course it’s plugins. So for this post, we’ve rounded up 10 more jQuery plugins and techniques that you should find very useful. Supersized 3.0 Plugin This plugin produces a full screen slideshow complete with transitions, preloading, and navigation controls. Apple-like Retina Effect Learn how to create an Apple Retina Display magnifying effect with jQuery and CSS. Flip! Flip is a jQuery plugin that will flip easily your elements in four directions. jSlickmenu jSlickmenu, creates, well, slick menus with jQuery. jQuery Address Overscroll Overscroll is a jQuery plug-in that mimics the iphone/ipad scrolling experience in a browser. jQuery Page Curl Contactable Panning Slideshow Sliding Labels
Mosaic - Sliding Boxes and Captions jQuery Plugin Features So, what exactly does Mosaic do? Automatically generates sliding boxes & captions Allows slide & fade animations with custom directions Preloads images within boxes Options There are a number of available options, shown below with their default values. For options able to be turned on/off - 1 is on, 0 is off. animation : 'fade', speed : 150, opacity : 1, preload : 1, anchor_x : 'bottom', anchor_y : 'left', hover_x : '0px', hover_y : '0px' animation Controls which effect the sliding box uses. speed Defines speed of the animation. opacity Accepts any value 0-1 (decimals included). preload Overlays and backdrops are faded in after the page has loaded. anchor_x, anchor_y Horizontal and vertical anchor points for the overlay (eg. left, right, top, bottom). hover_x, hover_y Horizontal and vertical overlay hover positions. Legacy Versions Sliding Boxes and Captions with jQuery (3/31/09) - (Original Post) Available for Hire Email the details of your project to hello@onemightyroar.com.