18 Latest jQuery Plugins for Your Next Project

18 Latest jQuery Plugins for Your Next Project

jQuery has been one of the more popular JavaScript Framework that emphasizes interaction between JavaScript and HTML. Many developers like to experiment with it because it is fast and easy to use.

2009 has been a very exciting year for most of the open source projects, blogs and businesses. Over this past year, there has been tremendous growth in the jQuery community. jQuery released version 1.3 in January 2009 and more plugins have been appearing online as well.


As a jQuery fan, we like to keep up-to-date with the latest jQuery Plugins available online as often as possible. Included in this article are 18 great jQuery Plugins that was released in 2009.

18 Latest jQuery Plugins of 2009

Page Slide
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.

Page Slide

Lazyload
This plugin delays loading of images in long web pages. Images outside of viewport (visible part of web page) will not be loaded before user scrolls to them, this makes the page load faster. Browser will be in ready state after loading visible images. In some cases it can also help to reduce server load.

Lazy Load

Rotateimage
This plugin helps to rotate images made in pure Javascript + HTML5 canvas element and VML in IE.

Rotate Image

Tokenizing Autocomplete
This plugin allows users to select multiple items from a predefined list, using auto-completion as they type to find each item. You may have seen a similar type of text entry when filling in the recipients field sending messages on facebook.


Auto Complete

Markitup
This plugin is not meant to be a “Full-Features-Out-of-the-Box”-editor. Instead it is a very lightweight, customizable and flexible engine made to meet the developer’s needs in their content management system, blogs, forums or websites.

Markitup

Password Strength
This plugin shows the strength of you passwords by telling you how long time it would take to brute force them.

Password Strength

Before After
This plugin helps to show the difference between 2 images, that let user to drag a slider over the images, which were sandwiched with one on top of the other, so that you could easily see how dramatic the changes were.

Before After

Ajax Fancy Captcha jQuery Plugin
This plugin helps you protect your web pages from bots and spammers. It is a new, intuitive way of completing “verify humanity” tasks. In order to do that you are asked to drag and drop specified item into a circle.

Ajax Fancy Captcha

Roundabout
This plugin helps you convert a structure of static HTML elements into a highly customizable turntable-like interactive area. And now, It’s not just turntables, but many other shapes!

Round About

qTips
This plugin is an advanced tooltip plugin. It provides you with tonnes of features like rounded corners and speech bubble tips, and best of all it’s free!

qTips

Merrkat
This plugin can be used as a simple promotional tool, a roost for advertisements, or even as an alternative to a splash or entry page; Meerkat is unobtrusive, cross-browser compatible, and degrades gracefully if Javascript has been disabled.

Meerkat

MopBox
This plugin is draggable show box that can contain div, image , flashmovie, video, etc. If it has more than one children, slider navigation is shown automatically.

MopBox

Text Resizer
This plugin attempts to solve one problem: that of resizing text on demand by the user, where the user is given the option to enlarge or decrease the size of the website’s text.

Text Resizer

Threedots
This plugin is used in many scenarios in the display of online text where shortened, truncated representations are best used.

Three Dots

Live Preview
This plugin is helpful to provide a preview of what the comment will look like as the user is typing the comment.

Autosave
This plugin helps to track the state of a form and fires off events to save the form data when the form has been dirtied. It is usually being used to save changes of the user’s content while they are working in their content management system.

Autosave

Endless Scroll
This plugin makes the page keeps loading with new items attached at the end, instead of paging through items using the traditional pagination technique.

Endless Scroll

jParallax
This plugin 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.

jParallax

Conclusion

We hope that these jQuery Plugins can help inspire you to create new interaction and usability for your projects, as it did for us. Join us as we look forward for more amazing jQuery Plugins in 2010. If we have missed out any other great plugins released in 2009, please let us know by leaving a comment below.

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