10 Useful jQuery Plugins
It seems that jQuery plugins are constantly being released, and it’s no surprise since it’s insanely popular, and for good reason. The only problem is being able to sort through them all to find the good ones. That’s why we’re always on the lookout, and we’ve found some good ones for you. Here are 10 fresh jQuery plugins that you should find useful.
arbor.js
Arbor is a graph visualization library built with web workers and jQuery. Rather than trying to be an all-encompassing framework, arbor provides an efficient, force-directed layout algorithm plus abstractions for graph organization and screen refresh handling.
Mobily Map
MobilyMap is a jQuery plugin (7KB) that can create a Google Maps-like, draggable interface from any image.
Awkward Viewline
This is a simple plugin for displaying any type of media on a straight line. As an example it can be used for displaying a product line over the browsers entire width.
liteAccordion
liteAccordion is a horizontal accordion plugin that only weighs 4.5kb, and the themes don’t use any background images.
Zoomy
Zoomy is a quick and easy plugin that will zoom into a picture. You only need two copies of one image first the display image and then the zoom image.
Waypoints
Waypoints is a small jQuery plugin that makes it easy to execute a function whenever you scroll to an element.
Reveal
Reveal is a lightweight plugin that lets you easily create modal windows.
Subway Map Visualization
This plugin gives you a way to display data by generating HTML in the form of a subway map.
jQuery Runloop Plugin
With jQuery Runloop, you can create your own small runloop with keyframes at your own choosing, each with code to execute. You can put whatever code you want in each keyframe, rearrange keyframes easily, and use reusable maps of code and/or animations to share between runloops.
Activity Indicator
Activity Indicator is a jQuery plugin that renders a translucent activity indicator (spinner) using SVG or VML.
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18 comments
Grün Weiss
March 25, 2011nice to have, cool article thx
ozgurra
March 25, 2011I like zoomy, thx to article.
ehhwhat.co.uk
March 25, 2011“Reveal” and “Liteaccordion” will come in handy, thanks for the collection.
Theo
March 25, 2011Some great stuff in this collection, thanks!
Thiago
March 25, 2011Great! Keep bringing stuff like that
Web Design Cambridgeshire
March 25, 2011Wow, there’s some great plugins here. jQuery is becoming so powerful, and thanks for sharing these great tools to make it even more powerful.
Goncalo Espinha
March 26, 2011Great collection!!
These are so useful nowadays, thanks
Kristine C
March 26, 2011This is great! This is definitely a useful collection of plugins! Thank you!
Sony
March 27, 2011Nice collection of jquery plugins. Useful for every web developer.
AndyJ
March 28, 2011thanks for the list – I didn’t know about zoomy. Am just looking at integrating it into an e-commerce site instead of magiczoom – will save me some cash…
Alex
March 28, 2011“Reveal” is a good alternative to heavy lightboxes
Jon
March 28, 2011Waypoints is the handiest thing I’ve seen in years. Thanks for posting!
ddeja
April 5, 2011Reveal – excellent jquery script. Loved it.
Cheers.
evlilik rehberi
September 25, 2011Useful jQuery plug-ins.Thanx for sharing.
adumpaul
October 25, 2011Great collection.Thanks!
Deepanker
March 26, 2012really a nice collection of useful jQuery plugins
Christopher Becker
July 10, 2012Nicely done, I have a jQuery plugin of my own, still to be presented to the world.
Kedar
February 6, 2013Excellent Collection of Jquery Plugins. I liked lite Accordion