Some useful jQuery plugins – Part 1

I often find cool and (sometimes) useful jQuery plugins, so I want to share a few that I like. I plan to share more in the future.

 

Adipoli jQuery Image Hover Plugin

Includes several different effects to highlight images as the mouse hovers over them.

Adipoli Hover jQuery

http://cube3x.com/demo/adipoli-jquery-image-hover-plugin/

 

jQuery File Upload

File Upload widget with multiple file selection, drag&drop support, progress bars and preview of images, audio and videoy. Supports cross-domain, chunked and resumable file uploads and client-side image resizing.

jquery-upload

https://github.com/blueimp/jQuery-File-Upload

 

iCheck

Customized checkboxes and radion buttons for your forms.

iCheck

http://damirfoy.com/iCheck/

 

Chosen

A plugin to make dropdown-boxes (especially long ones) easier to use. I looked at using this in a project, but ultimately opted to use another plugin, for different reasons. Chosen is still a good tool.

Chosen

http://harvesthq.github.io/chosen/

 

MagicSuggest

This is the plugin I selected over Chosen. The content of the dropdown can be supplied using an Ajax call, returning JSON, and there are a large number of configuartion options. The plugin support filtering and type-ahead, as well as many other useful functions.

MagicSuggest

http://nicolasbize.github.io/magicsuggest/

 

SuperScrollorama

A jQuery plugin for scroll animations.

scrollorama

http://johnpolacek.github.io/superscrollorama/

 

Sticky

Sticky is a jQuery plugin that gives you the ability to make any element on your page always stay visible.

sticky

http://stickyjs.com/

 

This Post Has 4 Comments

  1. Keith Strickland

    Some other good ones are:

    fullCalendar – Calendar
    gritter – growl like notifications
    tags_input – a nice tagging utility
    select2 – This is similar to a couple you mentioned (chosen, magic suggest) for an enhanced combobox
    editable – For inline editing
    sparklines – Small line charts

    1. I actually looked at select2 at one time. I might switch to it, due to some small issues I am having with MagicSuggest. My problem is that after loading the choices through Ajax, there is a blank one-row dropdown visible, blocking other elements below it. As soon as I click in teh control, it closes and everything looks good, but i can’t get that to happen automaticall. Very frustrating.

  2. Chris Crowley

    Have you tried using jQuery File Upload plugin with Domino?

    1. Karl-Henry Martinsson

      I actually created a page where I upload/attache files as late as this week. I am using a jQuery/Bootstrap plugin for this. I will blog about it shortly. 🙂

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