10 Amazing jQuery AJAX Widgets

AJAX can add life to even a simplest user interface. Add style and interactivity to your designs with this set of Amazing jQuery AJAX Widgets.

1. jQuery Virtual Earth Toolkit

The Virtual Earth Toolkit (VEToolkit) is a set of Controls/Tools/Components that Extend MS Virtual Earth with functionality not implemented within the Virtual Earth JavaScript API itself. One of these components is a jQuery Plugin that allows for a MS Virtual Earth Map to be more easily created using a single method call.

2. Slidedeck- An Interactive Presentation Slider

SlideDeck is a new way to display content on websites, mobile phones and kiosks. It delivers a better user experience by removing the information overload and providing a fun, quick and beautiful way to interact with digital devices.

3. Watajax – Searchable Dynamic Ajax Tables

Easy to use and fast ajax tables. Developed by West Art Communication AB. This plug-in / php-data-generator combination was created when we could not find any easy-to-implement fast and non-complex alternatives.

4. jQuery Form Wizard Plugin

The form wizard plugin is based on jQuery and can be used to simulate wizard like page flows for forms without having to navigate between different pages. The plugin is very unobtrusive and gives the developer great freedom on how they set up the flow of the different steps in their wizards, as the plugin supports creating specific routes in the form depending on the user input.

5. jSuggest – Advanced auto-complete for jQuery

jSuggest is yet another auto-completer for your text input box. It mimics the functionality of Google suggest. jSuggest will also bind item selection to your up and down arrows and also allow you to select the suggestions using your mouse.

6. ToAJAX – Turn any web page into an AJAX page

A simple jQuery plugin that takes any link and turns it into an AJAX link. From then on, every time that link is clicked, a particular part of the page will be refreshed to show only the changed results.

7. Rich HTML Ticker jQuery Plugin

Rich HTML TIcker is a practical script for displaying ordinary, rich HTML content in a rotated fashion on your page. The ticker contents can either be defined inline on the page, or within an external file and fetched using Ajax.

8. Simple starRating jQuery Plugin

Plugin is simple, but bundled with several cool features, it sends rating to a scrip via jQuery ajax call, and updates value on stars depending on current rate. All you need to do is create your own stars or other images you want to use, and you are ready to go.

9. Loading jQuery Plugin

The Loading jQuery Plugin provides trivially easy way to notify users that a request is being loaded and processed in the background, so that they know their action was received and the page has not frozen.

10. Video Gallery – jQuery Plugin

A simple video gallery used to display .swf videos in a window when selecting a thumbnail.