The great thing about jQuery is that a talented jQuery developer often releases new and useful plugins on a regular basis. jQuery plugins are not only easy to implement, but easy to maintain even when used throughout large sites.
In this article, we share with you a list of 20 useful jQuery plugins that were released recently that could help you for your next web project. There are various types of plugins here such as modal windows, image galleries, auto complete for form input, bookmarking functions, preloaded, and more. Enjoy!
1. SimpleModal
This jQuery plugin is a flexible and straightforward way of providing modal window functionality on your site.
2. Panel Gallery
Panel Gallery is an image slideshow with a unique transitional effect. It transitions to another image in a sequential panel manner.
3. Easy Image Gallery
Creating image thumbnail galleries is a snap when you implement the Easy Image Gallery jQuery plugin into your site’s template.
Easy Image Gallery Demo
4. nyromModal
nyromModal is a useful jQuery plugin that has a robust set of features and options for you to truly create a customized modal window for your web pages.
5. PikaChoose
PikaChoose is a super lightweight image gallery that’s a cinch to integrate into your website. You can see it in action on the Belvedere Inc website.
6. Image Overlay Plugin
The Image Overlay Plugin lets you present more information about your images. Hovering over an image reveals associated text on top of it.
7. imgAreaSelect
If you’re creating a web app that supports image cropping, this can be the client-side function that lets your users select rectangular areas of an image.
8. SimpleMenu
If you need a simple, lightweight, and barebones JavaScript-based navigation menu, SimpleMenu is the jQuery plugin of your dreams.
SimpleMenu Demo
9. SlideBox
Do you need a sliding div panel at the top (or bottom) of web pages that can contain more links or your login/sign-in feature? Check out SlideBox.
SlideBox Demo
10. Single Drop Down Menu
Single Drop Down Menu (also known as Single-ddm) is a quick and hassle-free way of implementing multi-level navigation menus that leverage JavaScript
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Single Drop Down Menu Demo
11. Auto Complete
Are you trying to build a custom search feature for a site? The Auto Complete jQuery plugin can supercharge your form inputs with additional user feature.
12. jQuery Iconize
jQuery Iconize allows you to reduce or expand page elements into an “icon state”, providing your web app a user-friendly way of minimizing page objects.
jQuery Iconize Demo
13. Inline Text Edit
Web developers looking to provide users with a basic in-page text editor should take a look at the Inline Text Edit jQuery plugin.
Inline Text Edit Demo
14. PfeLoader
This jQuery plugin allows you to display a progress bar for page components that are being downloaded – useful for image galleries that share large-scale photos.
PfeLoader Demo
15. Growl
Growl allows you to present DOM-inserted elements (divs by default) that are perfect for user warnings, messages, and status update notifications.
16. jQuery Bookmark
Sharing your content in social news and networking sites requires little else than implementing the jQuery Bookmark plugin.
17. Mouse Over Animation for Text
MOAText is a spiffy jQuery plugin for giving you the ability to animate HTML text triggered when the mouse cursor hovers over them.
18. OverScroll
OverScroll lets you move around by holding down a mouse button and moving it, similar to how the iPhone allows you to move around a screen by finger gestures.
19. jQDialog
jQDialog is a jQuery plugin for exhibiting unobtrusive modal windows for in-page notifications that can replace the alert(), prompt(), and confirm() JavaScript functions.
20. Uploadify
Uploadify is a package written on top of jQuery that gives you both the client-side and server-side functionality you’ll need to handle single-file and multi-file uploads.
Uploadify Demo
Can you suggest more plugins that we’ve overlooked? Have you used any of the plugins above? Share your thoughts and opinions in the comments!
