jQuery.PercentageLoader is a jQuery plugin for displaying a progress widget in more visually striking way than the ubiquitous horizontal progress bar / textual counter. Installation and use is quick and simple.
It makes use of HTML 5 canvas for a rich graphical appearance with only a 10kb (minified) javascript file necessary (suggested web font optional), using vectors rather than images so can be easily deployed at various sizes. It is open source released under BSD licensed.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://widgets.better2web.com/loader/
License: BSD License
jQuery++ is an MIT licensed collection of extremely useful DOM helpers and special events for jQuery 1.7 and later. It’s not a UI project like jQuery UI or jQuery Tools. Instead, jQuery++ is all about providing low-level utilities for things that jQuery doesn’t support.
jQuery++ does things the jQuery way, which makes it really easy to learn if you are already familiar with jQuery. Simply select the files you want and click “Downloadâ€. This will create and download a jquerypp.custom.js with all the files you selected and their dependencies.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://jquerypp.com
License: MIT License
Cover Flow is an animated, three dimensional graphical user interface integrated within iTunes, the Macintosh Finder, and other Apple Inc. products for visually flipping through snapshots of documents, website bookmarks, album artwork, or photographs.
Cover Flow is browsed using the on-screen scrollbar, mouse wheel, gestures, or by selecting a file from a list, which flips through the pages to bring the associated image into view. Here we have CoverScroll jQuery plugin, which is a CSS3 variant of the Apple’s CoverFlow design pattern. It’s very handy if you would like to showcase some pictures in this way.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://slobodan.99k.org/plugins/coverscroll.html
License: License Free
qTip2 is the second generation of the advanced qTip plugin for the ever popular jQuery framework. Building on 1.0’s user friendly, yet feature rich base, qTip2 provides you with tonnes of features like speech bubble tips and imagemap support, and best of all… it’s completely free under the MIT/GPLv2 licenses.
qTip2 utilises a separate stylesheet to contain all tooltip styles, which allows you to easily add new styles without additional JavaScript code, as well as easily editing pre-existing styles.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://craigsworks.com/projects/qtip2/
License: MIT, GPL License
jQuery Knob is powerful jQuery plugin that helps users to create beautiful circular switches like volume controls. It works by transforming any given input fields according to the values defined in its attributes and can be drag-and-dropped to change the value.
It also facilitates users to define the min-max values, default value on initial load, color and put it into read only mode. It supports touch, mousewheel and keyboard events. It is released under GPL and MIT license.
Requirements: –
Demo: http://anthonyterrien.com/knob/
License: MIT, GPL License
Countdowns can be a great way to build up anticipation when launching a new website or web application, it gives users a clear indication of how long they need to wait before they can get access to your site.
jQuery Countdown is a handy and pretty jquery countdown plugin for you. You can easily customize the format, images, width and height. And it’s only 1.7 KB. Best of all, it’s released under Apache License 2.0 which is free for download.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://jquery-countdown.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/index.html
License: Apache License 2.0
elFinder is an open-source file manager for web, written in JavaScript using jQuery UI. Creation is inspired by simplicity and convenience of Finder program used in Mac OS X operating system. It supports all operations with files and folders on a remote server (copy, move, upload, create folder/file, rename). Background file upload with Drag & Drop HTML5 support.
You can edit edit text files and images easily. Flexible configuration of access rights, upload file types, user interface and other. It also supports archives create/extract (zip, rar, 7z, tar, gzip, bzip2). elFinder was tested in Firefox 10, Internet Explorer 8+, Safari 5, Opera 11 and Chrome 15+.
Requirements: PHP 5.2+, jQuery UI
Demo: http://elfinder.org/
License: BSD License
Koottam Social jQuery Plugin is a simple, powerful and elegant Social jQuery Plugin to display your social links. The plugin can be highly customized through 10+ options. There are 7 themes available, and it’s very easy to add more themes in css. One of the best things is that you can make the count display animated easily.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://jobyj.in/koottam-jquery-plugin/
License: License Free
Juice UI is an open-source collection of WebForms components that brings jQuery UI Widgets to your project with ease. Start leveraging the power of the world’s most popular JavaScript UI library while working with familiar code in your ASP.NET projects.
Juice UI allows you to create flexible, interactive web applications quickly. Entice your users with behaviors such as drag & drop, resizing, sorting and selecting. Build first class apps with accordions, autocompletes, datepickers, sliders, and more. Juice UI provides the simplicity needed for prototyping and the robustness needed for enterprise class production applications.
Requirements: ASP.NET
Demo: http://juiceui.com/
License: MIT, GPL License
Ribbons are liked for a reason, though — they break the mostly flat design paradigm that we’re traditionally bound to, and they’re one of the few visual elements to do so in an inconspicuous way.
Webdesign Tuts has written a great tutorial: Create a Sticky Navigation Header Using jQuery Waypoints, which tells us how to create an alternative visual style for such elements, which is more natural-looking and aesthetically pleasing.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-tutorials…
License: License Free
