jQuery effects are used more or
less all over the Internet today. Just a few years ago Flash was
dominating the scene for interactive and dynamic websites. The arrival
of JavaScript libraries like jQuery have made it a lot easier to do
advanced stuff with JavaScript, but of course the fact that Apple didn’t
let Flash into their iPhones and iPads may also have pushed the
development in this direction. Further the mobile movement have also
helped speed up the adoption of HTML5 and as an example Canvas Animation
is opening up for a lot of possibilities when it comes to developing
dynamic effects in a standard way. There are even countless examples of
HTML5 games available online showing us the capabilities of these rather new technologies.
Enough about HTML5 here. You should check out some
HTML5 tutorials
if you have still haven’t jumped the HTML5-wagon. Here in this article
we will focus on jQuery effects in various categories. Many of these
jQuery effects plugins, tutorials etc. are very useful and should be
simple to use. If I missed any cool resources then please let me know in
a comment! Also please let us know what side you are on…Flash?…
HTML5+CSS3+JavaScript?…
Animation Effects
jParallax turns a selected element into a ‘window’, or viewport, and
all its children into absolutely positioned layers that can be seen
through the viewport. These layers move in response to the mouse, and,
depending on their dimensions (and options for layer initialisation),
they move by different amounts, in a parallaxy kind of way.
This is an effect which can be used on site-header. It’s very simple to use: several layers glued together into a 3D effect.
In this effect the elements move in a way that they look as if it were one rotating sphere.
This works like a carousel but the elements fades into the distance
at the end. It also interacts with the mouse. The greater the distance
of the mouse from the center the faster it rotates.
This easy scroll application was made to simplify your work and save
you time in developing any kind of web template or application, it can
be easily inserted in any context and has a wide range of parameters
that can make your scrolling unique.
The image cube functionality can easily be added to a division with
appropriate default settings. It then displays the images contained
within the targetted division in a cycle every two seconds. A random
rotation is chosen each time to move to the next image. Highlights and
shadows are used to enhance the 3D effect.
jQuery spritely is a jQuery plugin created by Artlogic for creating
dynamic character and background animation in pure HTML and JavaScript.
It’s a simple, light-weight plugin with a few simple methods for
creating animated
sprites such as the birds you see on this
page, and dynamic scrolling backgrounds. You can use it on any html web
page, and any part of the page can interact with a sprite (click
anywhere on this page and wait and you’ll see what we mean).
With this effect you can animate a curtain to open to show a text or image the moment the rope is clicked.
jQuery Animated Content Changer is a jQuery plugin that allows you to
easily manage dynamic html content. With only very simple html, you can
add nice features to your website’s content. The way the change is
animation is pretty cool.
Try this wonderful effect to animate the postcard inspired designs
you have. With this effect, the clouds and the lifesaving float moves at
the same time.
In this animation, you can drag objects and place them anywhere you
want. It also features a switch that can be turned on to amaze your
visitors.
It’s a nice way of reordering and filtering things with a nice
shuffling animation. With this, you can make a beautiful library to make
your work organized.
This effect can be customized so that the chimney can puff a smoke of
whatever shape you want. The one above puffs Super Mario Images. This
is perfect to be used in headers.
jAni is a simple plugin for jQuery which allows you animate
background images. The plugin is basically an alternative to the
animated GIF but with several benefits. At first, it’s always better to
use an animated GIF as this format is supported by all browsers without
any JavaScript code or additional markup, but the “dark side” of it is
that an animated GIF allows only 256 colors and you cannot control
animation in any way.
Drop the blocks by touching the red strings with your mouse. This is what this effect can do.
jCoverflip has been developed to enable fast and granular customization of the look and feel and feature set.
This effect has a cartoon themed landscape with elements which slide out to reveal additional content.
This is a parallax style implementation of user interactions. When
the mouse moves over the document (or a specific element) the actions
can be translated to modify any CSS property of an element for example
an image position, to give a parallax style effect.
This effect enhances user interaction by providing decorative
effects. It’s all packaged into an intuitive jQuery plugin. Thus, you
can sprinkle cool effects on your screen once your mouse is moved.
Use CSS and jQuery to create the effect of a rotating billboard with
two ads. Through this you can make one set of image slices disappear
while another one (the other ad) appear giving the look of rotating
slices, just like in a rotating billboard system.
A jQuery plugin that sets a division to flip between text messages
like a flight board at an airport. The flight board functionality can
easily be added to a division with appropriate default settings. It then
displays the messages in a cycle after two seconds. Highlights and
shadows are used to enhance the 3D effect.
You can use this effect to amuse your visitors or create this out of
fun. It’s an animated way of to inspire someone to look beyond the
perceived constraints of web designers and developers.
This is a very amusing plugin. Once you open it, the object will
revolve around the page and if you click the buttons, it will jump in a
circular motion and bounce back into position.
With this effect you can add amusement to your pages by having your
visitors flip the pages of this animated Javascript using jQuery.
Flip is a jQuery plugin that will flip easily your elements in four directions.
Creating a custom animation banner with jQuery. With this animation
setup, you can have different elements in a banner that will animate in a
nifty fashion.
Rotate3Di is a jQuery Effect Plugin that makes it possible to do an
isometric 3D flip or 3D rotation of any HTML content. It also enables
custom 3D rotation animations. CSS3 Transforms are used to create this
visual “3D” isometric effect.
Transition Effects
Cool hover effect for a portfolio page.
jqFancyTransitions is easy-to-usejQuery plugin for displaying your
photos as slideshow with fancy transition effects. jqFancyTransitions is
compatible and fully tested with Safari 2+, Internet Explorer 6+,
Firefox 2+, Google Chrome 3+, Opera 9+.
This jQuery effect fades in and fades out anything whether it is an image, text or even a link in a nice and smooth fashion.
Captify is a plugin for jQuery written by Brian Reavis to display simple, pretty image captions that appear on rollover.
Kenburner is the premium way of using a slider in your website. A
combination of Ken Burns Effect, state-of-the-art Slider and Text
Animations defines this slider.
Customize this slider with just a little HTML and CSS to your very
needs. Give each slider some captions to transport your message. Use
your Ken Burns Animated banner elements with the possibility of playing
YouTube and Vimeo clips in a special detail view with describing text.
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Animate an image while hovering it and show the visitors information
while doing that. Sounds simple huh? Well it is, but the effect is nice
and can be nice for a portfolio.
jSquares is a jQuery plugin that pops up an image and a description in an overlay on hover.
How to create a thumbnail photo gallery, where clicking a button
would reveal the entire photo and more information about that photo. The
animation used look quite good.
Sexy Curls jQuery plugin is an open source solution which lets you
share in the beauty of the page fold feature with ease. It uses the
jQuery UI and its resizable package.
Booklet is a jQuery tool for displaying content on the web in a flipbook layout. It is built using the jQuery library.
This plugin allows any developer to recreate a similar interaction on
their own website using a few simple lines of Javascript. By attaching
the method to an anchor tag, pageSlide wraps the original body content
into a wrapper and creates an additional block for the secondary content
load. The slide is animated whenever the click event is invoked.
Amaze your readers by adding this nice effect which flips an object to reveal the content on its underside.
The Grid Accordion works with the same theory as most other
accordions. Only one cell is open at a time. The big thing is that the
column of the current open cell expands to a reasonable reading width.
This effect highlights and then fades a text or an image with a click
of the mouse. It can be made to display a highlighting box of different
colors.
The feature of this Dynamic page/replacing content is that it
replaces the content of the page if the navigation button is clicked
instead of opening another window.
The jQuery Cycle Plugin is a slideshow plugin that supports many
different types of transition effects. It supports pause-on-hover,
auto-stop, auto-fit, before/after callbacks, click triggers and much
more. It also supports, but does not require, the Metadata Plugin and
the Easing Plugin.
Image Editing and Adjustment jQuery Effects
Saloon is a jQuery Banner Rotator which animates your image and text
slides with transition effects of the wide library. Easy installation,
great transitions and text animations define the freshline style. See
the heaps of custom transitions/animations for each object on the page!
Customize this slider with just a little HTML and CSS to your very
needs. Give each slider a description and more elements to transport
your message.
The touch style drag and rool feature if pretty cool.
Jcrop is the quick and easy way to add image cropping functionality
to your web application. It combines the ease-of-use of a typical jQuery
plugin with a powerful cross-platform DHTML cropping engine that is
faithful to familiar desktop graphics applications.
Lazy loader is a jQuery plugin written in JavaScript. It delays
loading of images in (long) web pages. Images outside of viewport
(visible part of web page) wont be loaded before user scrolls to them.
Using lazy load on long web pages containing many large images makes the
page load faster.
Awesome full size/screen jQuery image slider plugin. It resizes the
images to fill browser while maintaining image dimension ratio. Further
it cycles Images/backgrounds via slideshow with transitions and
preloading
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.
This is a jQuery content slider using the famous parallax-effect! You
can create as many layers and sublayers as you want. You can use images
or any other HTML elements, including Flash movies as layers. The
script is very user-friendly, you can add global settings or local (per
slide) settings to each layer or sublayer. You can change delay times,
easing types, durations and much more.
This corner plugin is pulling off its magic by adding more elements
to the page. Specifically, it adds div “strips” to the item to be
cornered and sets a solid background color on these strips in order to
hide the actual corners of the real item. So if you step back and look
at the cornered element, think of there being solid colored divs hiding
the true squared off corners of the item you wish to be changed.
Try this wonderful effect to make the text and images clearer by
seeing it up close as if they’re just in the retina of your eyes.
This effect works by highlighting and previewing images that are
integrated in an article or spread over a page. This is a nice way to
allow users to view a bigger version of an image that is relevant to
some context. It highlights images on a delayed hover and offer a
preview mode which will enlarge and center the bigger version of the
image on the screen.
Flip is a jQuery plugin that will flip easily your elements in four directions.
imJQMosaic is a simple jQuery plugin that creates mosaic pattern
using an image. Apart of just creating the mosaic pattern on an image,
it also facilitates the user to put menus on top of the mosaic tile(s).
Hence, it can be beautifully used as navigation menu. It can also serve
as a substitute to the popular Flash based navigations on the home pages
of a website or application which unfortunately don’t work on mobile
phones not supporting Flash content.
This effect enables you to create a simple image zoom out effect with
jQuery. Thus you can show some images which are zoomed in initially and
when hovering over an image it gets zoomed out. This effect could be
used in photography websites or image galleries.
Make a nice jQuery zoom like the one in the above screenshot. This effect offers different ways of zooming in and out.
Cloud Zoom is a free jQuery image zoom plugin, a comparable
alternative to products such as Magic Zoom. Compared to the popular
jQZoom plugin, Cloud Zoom is smaller, has more features and more robust
compatability across browsers.
Dragdealer is much more than a simple image slider. It offers a wide
variety of features related to dragging, but is also quite powerful for
creating different types if image sliders. I recommend you go to the
website and try out the demos.
The crop plugin takes an IMG element and crops them to the dimensions
given. The result is a DIV with a background image with the height and
width and an offset. The new DIV should also carry across the existing
style attributes of the image.
Use ZURB’s Javascript plugin to easily add and save annotations.
Zoomooz is an easy-to-use jQuery plugin for making any web page element zoom.
This jQuery plugin zooms a small area when you put your mouse over it. It’s very flexible and it’s easy to customize in CSS.
imgAreaSelect is a jQuery plugin for selecting a rectangular area of an
image. It allows web developers to easily implement image cropping
functionality, as well as other user interface features, such as photo
notes.
This jQuery plugin transforms a set of images into a tiny gallery
with several options. The Micro Image Gallery allows to switch between a
grid view which shows a preview of the images as thumbnails and a
single view showing one image only. The navigation bar can be hidden and
sliding out when hovering over the gallery, or visible.
This interactive picture – aka an image that contains tooltips and
popup boxes can be useful for showing off a particular aspect of a photo
(ie items or people).
You can give your pictures nice rounded corners to enhance the look of your page.
JQuery.iviewer is a jquery plugin used to load and view image in
container with ability to zoom image and to drag it with mouse in
container.
Other jQuery Effects and Resources
This effect is a nice recreation of the Mac desk, which is something that many people really like.
This jQuery tool is designed as an aid in making nice animations.
As the name suggests this produces an effect of changes the image into greyscale when you put your on it.
This plugin can help you select color in the same way you select color in Adobe Photoshop.
jQuery Touchwipe’s small 1 KB library allows you to obtain the wipe
event on an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch which can be used to scroll
through an image gallery. It also works with Android touchscreens.
This tutorial will teach you how to make amazing jQuery animation
using just a few line of code for each effect. With this you can create a
progress-bar in less than 3 lines.
Have fun with cool Tetris on your screen with this jQuery effect.
Create an amazing music player coded in xHTML & jQuery that made
use of mouse gestures and hotkeys. You can Click & Drag with mouse
to interact with interface’s music player or use directional keys &
spacebar instead of mouse.
This works like a sliding door in our homes. When you drag the navigation button, you expose the background of the image.
This is a nice way to scale an image by clicking the FULL, HALF and GONE buttons to see the animation in action.
This effect enhances the ability to make background-position
animation. The object can shoot up and move back into position when a
click is done.
Rating system is a very boring part of web browsing experience. That
is why a colorful rating system is there to make rating activity more
appealing. Take this to improve the rating system mechanism that you
have in your site.
With the help of jQuery & YQL, this effect can pull the contents
of a shared spreadsheet in your Google Docs account, and use the data to
populate the FAQ section with questions and answers. The best aspect of
this solution, is that you can change the contents of the FAQ section
from within Google Docs – just edit the spreadsheet. You can even
leverage the rest of Google Docs’ features, such as collaborative
editing. This way, a small team can support the FAQ section without the
need of a dedicated CMS solution.
If you have a news website, it might be interesting for you to allow
your users to see the latest tweets about a topic. This is what this hot
jQuery plugin does. It shows the latest tweets about a certain word or
phrase. Words or phrases that you want to be searched for in Twitter,
are wrapped with the following span. The popup box that appears can be
dragged and resized. Clicking on the cross will make it disappear. The
tweets are constantly being loaded in a predefined time span. This
loading stops when the user hovers over the tooltip box.
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razyDots is a jQuery Plugin that creates a loading spinner via CSS.
Best appearance is with CSS3 capable browser, but can be made to work in
older browsers, too.
The jQuery UI Effects brings us different animation techniques that we can use to in meet the need of our design projects.
courtesy :http://www.overset.com/2008/08/07/jquery-css-clip-animation-plugin/
Courtesy: http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/2012/03/jquery-effects.html