10 jQuery, Mootools, Prototype Lightbox Scripts

In today’s post we have included lightbox scripts/plugins from several JavaScript libraries: jQuery, MooTools, Prototype. These stylish lightbox scripts/plugins can display the pop-up block (modal windows, overlays) of single images, web image galleries, videos and other media and content formats on your websites. Enjoy. Related Posts: jQuery lightBox vs ColorBox vs FancyBox vs Thickbox 10 [...]

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10 jQuery Language Translator Plugins

Just like Google Translate, jQuery plugins can be used to the same effect when it comes to having your own language translator integrated in your website. Check out these cool jQuery Translator plugins. Enjoy! Related Posts: jQuery on Screen Keyboard Plugin 1. jQuery Translator Plug-in With the jQuery translator plug-in, web pages are easily translated [...]

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10 Helpful jQuery Plugins for Design and Development

Today while we were searching for a decent plugins to share on the blog we stumbled across some jQuery plugins which we think might help you one day with your web development projects. Enjoy. Related Posts: 20 Helpful jQuery Plugins 1. LoadMask A plugin that can mask DOM elements while their content is loading or [...]

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10 Best jQuery Plugins for WordPress

More and more Developers and Designers and have been using WordPress these days. Combining WordPress CMS with the power of jQuery will give us infinite possibilities in terms of designing & producing feature rich webpages. Today we are giving you our collection of what we think 10 best WordPress plugins that use jQuery. Enjoy! Related [...]

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jQuery lightBox vs ColorBox vs FancyBox vs Thickbox – What are the key differences?

It seems everyone is asking this question lately! What do these lightbox/thickbox/fancybox/colorbox jQuery plugins have in common and what are their differences? I thought I’d go and do my next blog assignment and here’s the result. I have also included the download link for WordPress options since all of them work with WordPress too. What [...]

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10 jQuery Cool Menu Effect Plugins

We’ve posted tons of jQuery Navigation Menu plugins for your websites and blogs and now we are giving you another awesome collection of 10 jQuery Cool Menu Effect Plugins. Enjoy! Related Posts: 10 Snazzy jQuery Navigations 15 Great jQuery Navigation Menus 1. Right Click Menu Very easy to use, compact plugin that creates a right-click [...]

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10 jQuery Syntax Highlighters

As a developer you may want to share your code on your website or blog (just like us!). There are many options out there for you depending on your chosen programming language. Whether it is a HTML page or runs on PHP, Ruby, Python, ASP, there is always a suitable syntax highlighter for you. Predominately [...]

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10 jQuery Plugins that Cost Money

The jQuery Slider can play a very important role when it comes to grabbing attention, displaying images & saving space on your website. It enhances the website UI by providing a convenient way to display images/videos/media and important information which the user can slide through. Today we are sharing you our collection of 10 jQuery [...]

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10 jQuery Panorama Image Display Plugins

Let your visitors enjoy the 360 degrees view of your website images by integrating these cool jQuery Panorama Image Display plugins. Possible uses include Virtual Tours, Panorama Viewers/Scrolling, Image cubes, Endless Photo Sliders and more. Enjoy!

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1. 360° panoramic view plugin for jQuery

A panorama is a wide-angle view made from a series of images combined together using special software. It offers a very realistic experience, giving the sensation that the user is right there on the location.

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2. jQuery 360* Panorama

Is a small (4kb) jQuery plugin for displaying and manipulating 360 degree panoramic images on your website. It is easy to customize it to fit in your webpage, you just need panoramic image, a DIV, little bit of CSS, and spice it with a little bit of JavaScript.

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3. jQuery spherical panorama viewer

Based on the last work of Helmut Dersh about Moving Panoramas, this full JavaScript viewer doesn’t require any browser plugin such as quicktime or java.

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4. jQuery virtual tour

This is an extension to the simple panorama viewer that allows you to play a little bit more with jQuery by adding interactivity to transform some panoramic views into a virtual tour.

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5. Panorer

jQuery plugin tested and works in Firefox 3.6, Opera 10.63, Chrome 8.0.552.215 and IE 8.0.6001.18702 — On Win XP and 7.

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6. PanoScroll

jQuery plugin that will scroll the background of a div for you.

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7. jQuery version of PhotoNav Showcase

This page shows the functionality of the PhotoNav script now in jQuery.

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8. jQuery Image Cube

A jQuery plugin that sets a division to rotate between images (or other things) as if they were on the faces of a cube.

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9. jQuery panorama plugin

Is used to create 360° panoramas on the current page through the power and flexibility of jQuery’s selector.

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10. jQuery simple panorama viewer

This is a simple and clean panorama viewer.

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8 jQuery 360 Degrees Image Display Plugins

Just like “panorama” these jQuery 360 degrees Image Display Plugins amazingly can display a 360 degree view of your object/landscape from all angles. (hey – it’s definitely more fun to look at stuff from all the angles!). No Flash player required, this is all done with JavaScript & jQuery. Most of them require a 36 image collation of the main angles of your object/landscape, once you have that it’s easy as pie. Enjoy!

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1. Reel 1.1.3

It is a jQuery plugin which takes an image tag and makes it a live “projection” of pre-built animation frames sequence. Its aim is to provide a 360° view of something or someplace. Great alternative to widely used Flash and Java techniques.

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2. Multiple 360 images

Adds multiple 360 images on one page. Creates unlimited instances of the 360 JavaScript viewers.

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3. jQuery threesixty

Is a really small plug-in that enable you do build flash-like “panorama” or 360 degree view of an object in a non-obtrusive way.

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4. picture-360-rotation

360-degree rotating display objects in pictures. Support photo rotating objects by hand, the synthesis of 360-degree animations. Interior hand-rotating camera support, the synthesis of 360-degree look around effect through the IE6, IE7, IE8, Chorme, Firefox, Opera, Safari test.

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5. jQuery Solar System Rotator

The latest demonstration of what is possible with JavaScript comes from young web programmer and enterprenuer Will Jessup. Using the JQuery JavaScript library, he has put together an impressively compact (in terms of bandwidth) graphical simulation of the solar system.

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6. 360 Spin Rotate & Zoom

It is possible to display a series of images as VR Objects 360° with 3D Spin & Zoom.

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7. j360

Is a jQuery plugin designed to display 360 view of product using a set of images.

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8. Spritespin

Is a jQuery plugin that enables sprite animation in your website. The aim of this plugin is to provide a 360 degree view of some kind of product.

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10 Easy to Use jQuery Plugins

Here we’ve collected another set of 10 random easy to use jQuery plugins – we know you love them! Most of you may have not used or seen these plugins before, so it’s worth to take a look! However you have seen the 8. Sexy Curls jQuery Plugin but it is pretty awesome!

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1. jQZoom Evolution

Is a JavaScript image magnifier built at the top of the popular jQuery JavaScript framework. jQzoom is a great and a really easy to use script to magnify what you want.

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2. queue & dequeue

A pair of core data utilities that help you to add your own bespoke to animations.

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3. Awkward Viewline

Is a jQuery plugin and is now integrated with Awkward Showcase — a plugin for the JavaScript Framework jQuery.

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4. jQuery-Notes 1.0.2

Is a simple and easy to use jQuery-Plugin that allows you to add notes to any image (even foreign ones) on your website or blog.

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5. QuickFlip 2: The jQuery Flipping Plugin Made Faster and Simpler

jQuery QuickFlip takes any piece of HTML markup and flips it over like a card. The effect is similar to the UI animation on the iPhone.

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6. Semitransparent rollovers

Background has a gradient effect, so you can see that the glowing borders flow smoothly on rollover. Try that with a gif!

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7. Beautiful Slide out Navigation: A CSS and jQuery Tutorial

The navigation will be almost hidden – the items only slide out when the user hovers over the area next to them. This gives a beautiful effect and using this technique can spare you some space on your website.

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8. The Sexy Curls jQuery Plugin

Is an open-source jQuery plugin by Elliott Kember which lets you share in the beauty of the page fold.

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9. Fixed Fade out Menu: A CSS and jQuery Tutorial

The aim is to have a fixed navigation that follows the user when he scrolls, and only subtly showing itself by fading out and becoming almost transparent. When the user hovers over it, the menu then becomes opaque again.

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10. Reveal: jQuery Modals Made Easy

Easy to implement, is cross-browser compatible with modern browsers (with some graceful degradation of course) and lightweight coming in at only 1.75KB. What that means for you is that it’s fast, sexy and just works.

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10 jQuery Plugins for your Webpage Customization

Sometimes, the good stuff is just sitting around waiting to be discovered, and we’re just so lazy to look for it. In this post is another set of 10 jQuery plugins that you might find really useful in creating or customizing your web pages. Enjoy.

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This plugin automatically creates anchors navigation for certain elements (for example H2) inside a container element (div, body whatever …). It automatically generates the anchors and can even make them numbered. And the whole thing is of course fully styleable through CSS.

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This plugin allows you to fill the background of a page with an image–all while maintaining the aspect ratio and gracefully handling window resizing.

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Stretches the image to cover a background of a page or a DIV.

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Is an experimental open source jQuery image slider plugin which was been written specifically to work with fluid/responsive web layouts.

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Aside from the conventional tabs it offers the ability to create “hidden tabs”. That is, tabs which have no associated activation button, but can be displayed via programmatically activating them. This allows one to create their own custom buttons for tabs, e.g. on the sides or bottom of the tabbed panel.

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An image preloader written in JavaScript/jQuery. This preload all images on your target element including backgrounds. Doesn’t seem to be a demo though sorry.

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Small plugin that takes a div(or any other element) and for specified element class resizes all elements so that they fit to container. Again no demo for this one but the plugin could be worth a try if you need to squeeze elements in a container or such.

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Is a simple jQuery grid plugin for people who need visual listings.

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jquery-haml is a set of jQuery plugins that make building user interfaces in the browser easy. This works through a js variant of the popular haml templating language.

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Hyjack Select was designed to replace traditional HTML select input controls (also known as combobox or dropdown lists). Hyjack Select enhances the select by injecting a “search like suggest” text box which queries the page-loaded select option items.

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15 Keyboard Event Plugins

Today we have a collection of 15 jQuery Keyboard Event Plugins that you would definitely love integrating in your webpage! Keyboard Event’s can add further usability to websites that have high interactivity with the user or need input via the keyboard as key combinations that trigger events on the page. They could also be useful to provide quick shortcuts or for keypad entry, the list goes on. Have fun!

Related posts:

• jQuery on Screen Keyboard Plugin
• jQuery Capture Single Key Press Event (Keyboard Shortcuts)

1. jwerty

Is a JS lib which allows you to bind, fire and assert key combination strings against elements and events. It normalizes the poor std api into something easy to use and clear.

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2. jQuery Hotkeys

Lets you watch for keyboard events anywhere in your code supporting almost any key combination.

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3. Keyboard

Virtual Keyboard using jQuery UI.

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4. Keyboard Smashed

A jQuery plugin to detect if a user has smashed their keyboard. This is determined by the amount of keys that are depressed which triggers the event.

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5. Piano

A flexible piano keyboard plugin for jQuery

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6. okShortcut

The two methods jQuery.shortcut.add and jQuery.shortcut.remove are used to add and remove key bindings, respectively. Both take a key-combination and a callback. jQuery.shortcut.add can optionally receive an options hash.

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7. jQuery Keyboard Navigation Plugin

Provides the capability for elements on a page to be navigated and activated via the keyboard’s up, down, right and left arrow keys.

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8. jQuery Keypad

A jQuery plugin that attaches a popup keyboard to a text field for mouse-driven entry or adds an inline keypad in a division or span.

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9. Ctrl + Key Combination

Simple jQuery Plugin.

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10. jQuery Plugin: Custom Styled Select Input w/Keyboard Interaction

There are still a few minor bugs that need to be fixed but it works enough for me, one bug is that in IE you need to click in the drop-down area if you don’t want the page to jump when using the keys.

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11. jQuery.actionsmenu-1.1

This jQuery plugin makes it easy to provide access to functions from a drop-down menu. Includes accessibility features like WAI-ARIA and keyboard support for universal access.

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12. Adding Keyboard Navigation

I was recently asked how keyboard navigation could be supported to move a slider backwards and forwards. I’ve created a few tutorials on how to create sliders and carousels but not mentioned keyboard supported navigation yet.

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13. Keyboard Accessibility Plugin API

Makes it easy for developers to add keyboard handlers to their code without a lot of extra overhead.

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14. numerickeyboard.js

Is a fairly simple-minded and an extremely easy to use plugin to create numerical keyboard for input.

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15. Keyboard Links

Is a plugin which allows the user to quickly find any link on the page and click it by just using the keyboard.

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RinoSlider – A simple jQuery fade slider (Guest Post)

What is Rhinofader?

Rhinofader is a compact, simple slideshow / slider without a lot of knick-knacks. Not a thousand effects, not a thousand settings, only the fade-effect. Yes! Rhinofader also works fine with HTML content.

How to use Rhinofader?

The embedding of Rhinofader is very easy, just follow the steps afterwards:

1. Embed the JavaScript file:

<script type="text/javascript" src="js/rhinofader.min.js"></script>

2. Add the function call

$('ID of your <ul>').rhinofader();

3. Set height and with if your <ul > or <ol > in your CSS file

4. That’s it! Of course you can setup some options which can be found at http://rhinoslider.com/rhinofader/

Demo of Rhinofader

A demo of Rhinofader is available at http://rhinoslider.com/rhinofader/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/rhinoslider
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/rhinoslider

About the author René Maas

René Maas is a German based web designer and developer. He is familiar with HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery and PHP. He is also interested in Usability and Accessibility.

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10 Web Combi jQuery Plugins

Give your web designs a better edge with the web combination of jQuery, CSS and HTML, the usual suspects. See the magic right on your screen! They make a great combination to deliver widgets, galleries, navigation and much more. Enjoy!

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Create a blogroll slider that shows the latest post of your favorite blogs using jQuery, PHP and XSL. The aim is to get a given RSS feed of a blog and parse the XML data with the help of PHP.

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Learn how PHP, CSS3 and HTML blend together with jQuery to create those attractive jQuery plugins. Dissect jQuery filters by taking a single chunk of the jQuery source at a time, break it down, and know what is happing on the process.

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A stunning music portfolio template designed using jQuery and HTML5. This template gives an idea on how to blend HTML5 with jQuery to create stunning plugins and designs.

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Sooner or later, somebody is going to type in a wrong URL or follow a broken link to your site. This is when the notorious 404 page is displayed. Learn how to design a friendly error page which will encourage your user to stay at your web site.

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The interactive photoDesk plugin based on jQuery and CSS3 helps create interactive portfolios and galleries. Let the audience enjoy playing with the images on your site with this plugin.

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This tutorial is about how to create a simple overlay effect to display annotations in e.g. portfolio items of a web designer’s portfolio.

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In this tutorial we will create a content panel that slides out at a predefined scroll position. It will reveal a teaser with related content and it can be expanded to full page size to show more.

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This tutorial helps create a stunning full page photo wall gallery. The idea is to have a whole page full of thumbs with a nice light effect when we hover. When an image is clicked, a panel slides up from the bottom revealing the full picture.

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This tutorial explains how to create a nice and fresh image gallery. The idea is to show the albums as a slider, and when an album is chosen, we show the images of that album as a beautiful photo stack.

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Create an extraordinary gallery with scrollable thumbnails that slide out from a navigation. We are going to use jQuery and some CSS3 properties for the style. The main idea is to have a menu of albums where each item will reveal a horizontal bar with thumbnails when clicked.

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