I viewed each of the jquery Plugins in the jquery plugins repository.
I couldn't believe how many there were! So I decided to make this
Master List to weed out any plugins that were either broken or I didn't
Find any practical application for. You will notice I added,
"Excellent" to the plugins that I thought were exceptional.
- Accessibility stylesheet and text size switcher.
- Accordion accordion interface with a few variations.
- Alphanumeric Prevent Users From inputing special characters.
- Ajax File Upload loading graphic displays while file is uploaded.
- Appenddom write HTML with JavaScript, great for displaying Ajax results.
- Appendtext converts text into post friendly HTML.
- BlockuiExcellentCreate a message overlay while blocking user interaction on elements or the entire page.
- Bogofolders view text through a 'file menu 'interface.
- Bogotabs basic Tabbed interface.
- Bubble demo highlights selected table rows in groups of tables ..
- Calendar AIDS date entry.
- Checkbox manipulation select, unselect and toggle checkboxes.
- ChiliExcellentSyntax highlighting for displaying code on webpages.
- Choose component select data from a table row through a modal window.
- Click menu generates dropdown menus.
- Cluetip ToolTips with variable variations.
- Color animations add color animations to Div backgrounds.
- Color Picker pass in color choices and attach custom events to each color block.
- Columnhover highlight table rows and columns.
- Columnmanager add, remove and toggle table columns.
- Contextmenu-menus that show when you right click specified elements.
- Confirmer adds a listener to check if user confirms their action.
- CycleExcellentAdd flash-like image effects to rotating image galleries.
- Date Picker AIDS date entry.
- Delicious read delicious bookmarks from a user to display on a webpage.
- Dimensions get accurate window and document attributes within SS browsers.
- Equalize columns make columns the same height as the longest column.
- FCKeditor plugin adds a Rich Text Editor to a textarea.
- Field expand the ability to retrieve and set values in forms.
- FormExcellentChange HTML forms to submit via Ajax.
- Gallery viewer JavaScript image gallery.
- Geturlparam function to get URL parameters.
- Google feed plugin display any RSS feed to a webpage.
- Gradient adds a gradient to a div without needing an image.
- Grid column sizing table column draggable resizing.
- Grid row sizing expand and collapse table rows.
- Hoverintent prevents unintended hover events.
- Idtabs add Tabbed interface to a website.
- Impromptu create modal windows and messages.
- Jquery localisation applies localisation packages based on the user's language preference.
- Jbox UI dialog widget.
- Jcalendar AIDS Selecting of dates inline on a page.
- Jcarousel lite simple functions usel for images and HTML content.
- Jcodeviewer syntax highlighting for displaying code on webpages.
- Jdmenu hierarchical menu generates dropdown menus.
- Jeditable live editing of elements on a webpage.
- Jfeed XML feed parser.
- Jpanview replaces big images with a zoom viewer in HTML.
- Jqdnr Drag 'n' resize elements on a page.
- Jqmaps interact with Google Maps.
- Jqmodal display notices, dialogs, and modal windows in a web browser.
- Treetable make a tree view out of an HTML table.
- Tree ViewExcellentTree View Controls.
- Suggest add AutoComplete to input fields.
- Yav Form validation library.
- Jquploader provides a status bar for uploading images.
- Jscrollpane customize your scrollbars.
- JtageditorExcellentTurn a textarea into a tag editor.
- Jvariations create a control panel to manipulate elements on a page.
- Keyboard navigation dynamically determine which element to focus on based on it's position on the screen.
- Labelover overlay labels over an input field.
- Lavalamp navigation menu with a 'lava' effect.
- Lazy load only load images that are in the current window.
- Live query adds event listeners to elements.
- Masked input add mask to inputs to aid user data entry (phone numbers, etc ).
- MediaExcellentUnobtrusive conversion of standard markup into rich media content.
- Extra selectors for jquery add more selectors to jquery.
- Mousewheel event handler.
- Mousehold event add repeating event as the user holds down the mouse.
- Multiple File Upload select multiple files one by one as it adds to a queue list.
- Newsticker create a fading news ticker.
- Password Strength Meter indicator to show the strength of a users password.
- Popupwindow creates an preview popup of destination link.
- Query string object useful for sending URL parameters.
- Select Box Manipulation remove and add options from a select list or dropdown in gateways.
- Selectcombo tool for making dependant dropdowns with Ajax.
- Star Rating generates star rating from input fields
- Grid dynamic Ajax grid control.
- Slideviewer image gallery as slides.
- Spoilers hide content behind an image until user action is taken.
- Tablehover row and column highlighting with variations.
- Tablefilter search box is added to each column header to filter table.
- Tablesorter client side table sorting.
- TaconiteExcellentEasily make multiple Dom updates using the results of a single Ajax call.
- Textgrad add gradients to whole blocks of text.
- Time entry sets an input field up to accept a time value.
- Tooltip add tooltips from title page.
- ValidationExcellentAdd live validation to forms.
- WymeditorExcellentWeb-based XHTML wysiwym editor.
- Zoomi zoomable thumbnails.
- XSLT transform XML/XSL from JavaScript.
- Xap Ajax library.
From: http://marcgrabanski.com/article/list-of-useful-jquery-plugins
