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75 Amazing CSS Navigations and Jquery Examples

admin — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:54:34 +0000

Navigation or Menu is a most imprtant part of website desiging but it is not easy to make. This is time taking job. Now you have to need something that you can use in your website and your visitors can easly navigate that.
jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.

AutoScroll for jQuery -allows for hotspot scrolling of web pages

JQuery BlockUI Plugin -lets you simulate synchronous behavior when using AJAX, without locking the browser. When activated, it will prevent user activity with the page (or part of the page) until it is deactivated. BlockUI adds elements to the DOM to give it both the appearance and behavior of blocking user interaction.

JQuery Curvy Corners- A plugin for rounded corners with smooth, anti-aliased corners.

JQuery iFrame Plugin – If javascript is turned off, it will just show a link to the content. Here is the code in action…

Sliding Panels For jQuery – Element can start open or closed and will be toggled from their own original position.

Farbtastic – is a jQuery plug-in that can add one or more color picker widgets into a page through JavaScript.

Simple JQuery Accordion menu

Scrollable HTML table plugin- used to convert tables in ordinary HTML into scrollable ones. No additional coding is necessary.

Pager jQuery -Neat little jQuery plugin for a a paginated effect.

Date Picker -A flexible unobtrusive calendar component for jQuery.

jQuery Corner Demo

Draggables and droppables- A good example of using jQuery plugin iDrop to drag and drop tree view nodes.

3-Column Splitter Layout -this is a 3-column layout using nested splitters. The left and right columns are a semi-fixed width; the center column grows or shrinks. Page scroll bars have been removed since all the content is inside the splitter, and the splitter is anchored to the bottom of the window using an onresize event handler.

Sortables - You won’t believe how easy this code to make it easy to sort several lists, mix and match the lists, and send the information to a database.

Table Sorter Plugin - for turning a standard HTML table with THEAD and TBODY tags into a sortable table without page refreshes. It can successfully parse and sort many types of data including linked data in a cell.

Zebra Tables Demo -using jQuery to do zebra striping and row hovering, very NICE!!

Image/Photo Gallery Viewer- allows you to take a grouping of images and turn it into an flash-like image/photo gallery. It allows you to style it how ever you want and add as many images at you want.

jQuery Cycle Plugin- have very intersting transition effects like image cross-fading and cycling.

TabContainer Theme – JQuery style fade animation that runs as the user navigates between selected tabs.

jQuery Accordion

SuckerFish Style

A Navigation Menu- Unordered List with anchors and nested lists, also demonstrates how to add a second level list.

HeatColor -allows you to assign colors to elements, based on a value derived from that element. The derived value is compared to a range of values, it can find the min and max values of the desired elements, or you can pass them in manually.

20) SimpleModal Demos – its goal is providing developers with a cross-browser overlay and container that will be populated with content provided to SimpleModal.

Demo :

jQuery AlphaNumeric – Allows you to prevent your users from entering certain characters inside the form fields.

jQZoom- allows you to realize a small magnifier window close to the image or images on your web page easily.

InnerFade – It’s designed to fade you any element inside a container in and out.

jQuery UI Tabs / Tabs 3 – Simple jQuery based tab-navigation

Ajax Form Validation – Client side validation in a form using jQuery. The username will check with the server whether the chosen name is a) valid and b) available. Demo :

jQuery ThickBox – is a webpage user interface dialog widget written in JavaScript. Demo :

Riding carousels with jQuery – is a jQuery plugin for controlling a list of items in horizontal or vertical order.

jQuery lightBox Plugin – simple, elegant, unobtrusive, no need extra markup and is used to overlay images on the current page through the power and flexibility of jQuery´s selector. Demo :

jQuery Air – A passenger management interface for charter flights. A great Tutorial that you will enjoy. Demo :

The jQuery Tooltip

Validation – A fairly comprehensive set of form validation rules. The plugin also dynamically creates IDs and ties them to labels when they are missing. Demo :

CSS Play Navigation Menus

If you are not aware of CSSplay.co.uk or Stu Nicholls, shame on you. If you are serious about CSS then get yourself over there, have a look at the many possibilties of CSS and view the hundreds of working CSS Demos. Below you will find his latest CSS menus. Great resource.

CSS Menus (with some help from jQuery)

The menu in the image of the dynamic menu are driven completely by CSS and work in all modern browsers, create up to 3 sub menus, hover persistence and uses jQuery for IE fixes. Nice and simple.

CSS Sprite Navigation

This tutorial teaches how to build a css navigation using sprite images. With the mobile web becoming more important than ever before, load time and the size of a web site are some of the biggest factors to consider when developing a site for mobile users.
Demo : View Demo »

Navigation bar with tabs using CSS and sliding doors

Create a simple navigation bar with tabs using CSS with status effects active, hover and link with PHP URL variables to set a tab “active” when the relative page is loaded.

Vertical CSS Menu With a ‘Behavior’ File

This tutorial will teach you how to build a vertical CSS menu with rollover submenu’s. The menu will be written in CSS and HTML, and will also use a so-called ‘behavior’ file.
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CSS Navigation Image Rollovers

This tutorial will show you how to create a navigation menu with image rollovers built with CSS that uses only one image and very minimal HTML / CSS code.
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Pure CSS Fish Eye Menu

A pure CSS technique to transform your icon menu into an interactive zooming icon navigation menu inspired from Mac OSX Dock with fish eye effect. One of many ways to style html list tags into interactive, usable, and accessible menu using pure CSS.
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Designing the Digg Header

The Digg navigation is compacted with the use of simple drop-down menus. Important things like subscribing, searching and account information are right up top where you would expect them to be. It’s fluid width, but it doesn’t shrink too far or grow too big. Like the Vimeo tutorial above, this is also an excellent tut to give you an insight into how the high-end sites cleverly use CSS.
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Multi-Level CSS Dropdown Menu in Dreamweaver CS4

Traditionally, multi-level dropdown menu navigation have been done in JavaScript, these kinds of menus can be very confusing for a beginner, and even more confusing to go back and edit later. You will learn how to do this better and more beautifully with CSS and Dreamweaver CS4.
For this tutorial, you’ll be making a horizontal navigation bar for a zoo. It will have dropdowns and a couple of items will have flyouts to the right.
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Simple CSS Vertical Menus

In this tutorial you will learn the basics of creating simple vertical menus for your website using only HTML and CSS.

CSS Navigation Menus

This tutorial will teach you how to create different menu styles for a main menu, submenu, and footer menu.

Create a multilevel Dropdown menu with CSS and jQuery

This tutorial is split into two parts, the first part is dedicated to the task of building a working CSS-only dropdown menu , the second part will show you how you can pimp the whole thing with a few lines of jQuery.
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Rounded corner CSS navigation bar with jQuery

You will be shown how to add some nice round corner effect to your anchor elements with jQuery, for your navigation, without using any image.

Creating a glassy non div navigation bar

In this tutorial you will not use any divs, instead you will be forming a navigation bar using a unordered list. This tutorial will show you how to style and control lists in CSS, as well as showing you the valid ways of using lists and where to use them.
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CSS Overlapping Tabs Menu

In this tutorial you’re going to learn to create a simple, yet cool menu with overlapping tabs, that is easily customised, lightweight and versatile.
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Nested Side Bar Menu

This is a simple yet professional looking multi level side menu. Markup wise it’s just a regular nested UL list, turned into a drop down menu using a very small JavaScript code.
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Pure CSS Vertical Navigation Menu

You will build the second most common site menu navigation, the vertical navigation menu, in this tutorial. You are going to be using only pure CSS and unordered lists to create the vertical navigation menu with three levels of pop outs. Thie navigation menu will work in IE5, IE6, IE7 and IE8 as well as Firefox and Safari.
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DropDown CSS Menu

This CSS menu will have submenus and will use the web-techniques HTML, CSS and the “whatever:hover” behavior file to make things work in Firefox and IE6.
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PHP and CSS menu

You will learn how to use PHP to control CSS styles to highlight the tab or hit area of a html menu with styles controlled by CSS.
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Vertical CSS menu with jQuery toggle effect

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a vertical CSS menu with a show/hide feature using jQuery.

Bulletproof CSS Sliding Doors

A variant on the original sliding doors tecnique from Douglas Bowman, this tutorial tackles issues such as dead pixel areas, empty tags, Internet Explorer and older browser inconsistencies and solving the problem of increased font-sizes.
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Sexy Drop Down Menu with jQuery and CSS

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a ’sexy’ drop down menu that will also degrade gracefully with CSS and a some jQuery. Excellent tutorial from Noupe,as always.
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Tabbed Navigation Using CSS

In this thoroughly detailed (and easy to follow) tutorial you will be taught how to create low-bandwidth tab navigation on a web page using CSS, as an extra bonus you’ll also learn how to switch tabs without loading the page more than once.
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Vimeo-Like Top Navigation

If you like the top navigation used on Vimeo, you will love this tutorial. The menu drops down when you hover over the search box and tt offers you different search options that you can choose and narrow your search.
This is an excellent tut to give you an insight into how the high-end sites cleverly use CSS.
Demo : View Demo »

LavaLamp

jQuery Collapse -A plugin for jQuery to collapse content of div container.

Easing Plugin- A jQuery plugin from GSGD to give advanced easing options. Uses Robert Penners easing equations for the transitions

Highlight Fade

jQuery Color Picker

jquery.Combobox – is an unobtrusive way of creating a HTML type combobox from a existing HTML Select element(s), a Demo is here.

jQuery Checkbox – Provides for the styling of checkboxes that degrades nicely when javascript is dsiabled.

File Style Plugin for jQuery -File Style plugin enables you to use image as browse button. You can also style filename field as normal textfield using css.

Simple Star Rating System

Half-Star Rating Plugin

Tooltip Plugin Examples – A fancy tooltip with some custom positioning, a tooltip with an extra class for nice shadows, and some extra content. You can find a demo here.

Switch stylesheets with jQuery- allows your visitors to choose which stylesheet they would like to view your site with. It uses cookies so that when they return to the site or visit a different page they still get their chosen stylesheet. A Demo is here.

Simple jQuery Examples -This page contains a growing set of Query powered script examples in “pagemod” format. The code that is displayed when clicking “Source” is exactly the same Javascript code that powers each example. Feel free to save a copy of this page and use the example.

ScrollTo -A plugin for jQuery to scroll to a certain object in the page

Select box manipulation

Cookie Plugin for jQuery

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First of all I would like to thank Negreu Andreas for collaborating with me in creating this tutorial. This is an inspiration from the Bolt movie poster. In this tutorial you will create a glossy thunder logo using a few layers and some white shapes that will make the thunder more interesting and glossy.

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