jQuery is one of the most popular javascript Libraries on the web, and almost every developer and designer are familiar with jquery’s functionality and features. jQuery resolves almost every issue and fits to your website requirements to make your website creative and innovative.
Every month we bring some new, and handy jQuery plugins for our readers which are useful and able to accomplish their development related tasks. In this roundup we have gathered 10 Best jQuery Plugins for December 2013 which will enable you to optimize and enhance your web applications as well as any new features you may be considering adding to your website. Enjoy !!
1. Adaptive Backgrounds
Adaptive Backgrounds is a jQuery plugin for extracting dominant colors from images and applying it to its parent element. This plugin utilizes the canvas element and the ImageData object, and due to cross-site security limitations, the script will fail if one tries to extract the colors from an image not hosted on the current domain, unless the image allows for Cross Origin Resource Sharing.
2. Dynatable
Dynatable is a funner, semantic, interactive table plugin using jQuery, HTML5, and JSON. And it’s not just for tables. The purpose of Dynatable is to provide a simple, extensible API, which makes viewing and interacting with larger datasets easy.
Dynatable provides a framework for implementing the most common elements out of the box, including sorting, searching and filtering. Above all, Dynatable is a clean and elegant API that is fun to use.
3. jQuery Label Better
jQuery Label Better helps you label your form input like a boss with beautiful animation and without taking up space. The uniqueness about this plugin is that all you have to do is add a placeholder text, and we will show the label only when the user needs it.
To add this to your website, simply include the latest jQuery library together with jquery.label_better.js into your document’s head, and simply call the function. Modern browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, and Safari on both desktop and smartphones have been tested.
4. sDashboard
sDashboard is a simple & light weight dashboard jQuery plugin that converts an array of objects into a dashboard. Each object in the array would be rendered as a dashboard widget that can be rearranged by dragging around.
sDashboards has built in support for rendering datatable’s and flotr2 charts. It also has support to listen for events such as table row click, chart data click and data selection built-in. sDashboard depends on the following libraries: jQuery, jQuery UI, Datatables and Flotr2 charts (required for charting widgets).
5. Multi Level Push Menu
Multi-level push menu is cross-browser compatible jQuery plug-in allowing endless nesting of navigation elements. It has support for unlimited levels, works cross browser/platform and makes things much easier for touch devices with swipe gestures. The menu can be set to next from left-to-right or right-to-left and all works with a simple markup (unordered lists).
6. Alloftheheights. Js
Allofthelights.js is a jQuery plugin that can change the opacity of the whole webpage but leave the video player. This is for helping the user to easily focus on the video and there is built-in support for YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion.. and custom players can be added too. It works with multiple players on the same page and supports responsive layouts/players with no issues. The animation speed, background color and opacity can all be customized an callback functions exist.
7. PhotoJShop
PhotoJShop is a jQuery plugin that enables us to apply such simple effects/filters to images. These filters include blur, sepia, emboss, lighten, darken, b&w, sharpen and more. The plugin works on canvas + images and the filters to be applied can be chained for easier usage.
8. jQuery Interactive 3D
jQuery Interactive 3D is a plugin that allows us to accomplish a similar functionality using multiple images. It is so easy to use and works with a simple function and a list of specifically-named images. And, there are options for customization like the cursor icon, speed, touch support, auto-play and more.
9. jQuery Lazy Load XT
Lazy Load XT is a jQuery plugin for loading effects on images, videos, and other media. It works with YouTube videos, jQuery mobile, the Zepto library, and much more.
10. jQuery Restable
jQuery ReStable is a jQuery plugin that makes your tables responsive by turning them into UL lists when necessary. It’s lightweight, around 1kb, and very simple.
