Top 15 jQuery Tricks

I’ve found these very cool jQuery tricks for you. Some of them offer weird effects that are very entertaining and fun to use.

1. Image Cross Fade Transition

A basic trick to fade one image to another.

Source:
http://jqueryfordesigners.com/image-cross-fade-transition/

2. Background Image Animations

This offers easy to use jQuery Background Image animation effects.

Source:
http://snook.ca/archives/javascript/jquery-bg-image-animations/

3. Smooth jQuery popup

Create a polished jQuery popup using this trick.

Source:
http://yensdesign.com/2008/09/how-to-create-a-stunning-and-smooth-popup-using-jquery/

4. Fancy ShareBox

Create a partially hidden button that will be shown later when hovered.

Source:
http://www.jankoatwarpspeed.com/post/2009/07/13/Create-fancy-share-box-with-CSS-and-jQuery.aspx

5. Slick Tabbed Area

Have your contents tabbed!

Source:
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/how-to-create-a-slick-tabbed-content-area/

6. Rounded Corners

With the help of jQuery Wrap, Prepend and Append functions. Creating rounded corner is possible.

Source:
http://docs.jquery.com/Tutorials:Rounded_Corners

7. Style Switcher

jQuery and PHP combination would create a clever style switcher.

Source:
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/jquery-style-switcher/

8. jQuery Tools

This is a collection of six different and equally amazing tools for you to use in your website.

Source:
http://flowplayer.org/tools/index.html

9. Chat Room

This is a team up of jQuery and PHP to build an interactive chat room.

Source:
http://css-tricks.com/jquery-php-chat/

10. News Ticker

Create a news ticker with fade it/out effects.

Source:
http://woork.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-to-implement-news-ticker-with.html

11. SlideViewer

This is a lightweight (1.5kb) jQuery plugin that creates an image gallery without requiring to write HTML codes.

Source:
http://www.gcmingati.net/wordpress/wp-content/lab/jquery/imagestrip/imageslide-plugin.html

12. Cheat Sheet

Tired of old looking plain jQuery Cheat Sheet? Check this out.

Source:
http://www.visualjquery.com/

13. Vertically Scrolling Menu

This is a basic but innovative vertical scrolling menu for your website’s navigation.

Source:
http://www.queness.com/post/256/horizontal-scroll-menu-with-jquery-tutorial

14. Music Player

Create a fantastic jQuery music player with the help of xHTML.

Source:
http://yensdesign.com/2008/12/create-an-amazing-music-player-using-mouse-gestures-hotkeys-in-jquery/

15. Colour Fading Menu

This provides a good LavaLamp menu alternative menu. Color fades when hovered.

Source:
http://css-tricks.com/color-fading-menu-with-jquery/