20+ Stunning jQuery Animations

A little bit of animation can spruce up a dull user interface. This collection of jQuery Animations pull up a whole new style of interactivity through stunning animations and effects.

1. Make Your Header Responses To Mouse Movements With JParallax

JParallax is no news to jQuery lovers. For those who still dont know anything about it. Here is a little introduction. jParallax 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. Next, I will show you how to make a beautiful

2. Creating A Funky Parallax Scrolling Background With jQuery

In this jQuery tutorial, you will learn how to construct a Parallax Scrolling background ? first popularized in web interfaces with the use of Flash. The technique involves div elements with CSS background images. The Parallax Scrolling technique requires the scrollTo plugin by Argentinean Web Developer and Game Programmer, Ariel Flesler.

3. jQuery Solar System

A splendind 3d jQuery animated solar system. A must see for all jQuery lovers.

4. Simulate Gravity With jQuery

A simple tutorial to Simulate Gravity With jQuery.

5. Auto-Moving Parallax Background

A while back I did a little demo on parallax backgrounds. As a quick review, parallax is that effect where there are different layers of backgrounds that all move at a different rate creating a very unique 3D effect (think Sonic the Hedgehog). In that original demo, the only way to see the parallax action take place was resize the browser window. So now we have an Auto-Moving Parallax Background with jQuery.

6. Fully Executing jQuery Animations Without Queuing

This amazing jQuery tutorial explains how to create fully Executing jQuery Animations Without Queuing.

7. Animated Header Using jQuery

This animated tutorial goes over a similar concept to the youlove.us example of vertically moving a large CSS background image. Illustrations on how the technique works will help readers grok the concept more fully. Devirtuoso, the author of the tutorial, goes through due diligence by offering an IE6 hack for backwards compatibility.

8. Multiple Animations With jQuery

Glimmer, a JavaScript animation creation tool that leverages the jQuery library, has several live demonstrations for some of the things you can do with the app. For instance, with Glimmer, you can create cool animation sequences or make a spiffy and impressive rotating banner for your website.

9. CSS Transitions via jQuery Animations

A wonderful and trendy tutorial on creating CSS Transitions via jQuery.

10. jQuery Animations: A 7-Step Program

A dash of animation can spruce up a dull interface. In this tutorial, you will learn how to do it the right way with jQuery.

11. Stunning Sliding Door Effect

Learn how to make a stunning four corners sliding effect easily with jQuery. It s elegant, unique and really cool solution for thumbnail gallery. This tutorial includes detailed explanation that will guide you through the whole process.

12. Revealing Photo Slider With jQuery

In my journey to to learn jQuery, I?m trying to learn to do some things that CSS can already do but that jQuery can do ?sexier?. Jonathan Snook has an article up ?Content Overlay with CSS? in which extra content is revealed in a certain area when it is moused over. This inspired me to try to do something similar with jQuery. My first thought was a thumbnail photo gallery, where clicking a button would reveal the entire photo and more information about that photo.

13. jAni – Colorful Background Image Animation Using jQuery

jAni is a simple plugin for jQuery which allows you animate background images. The plugin is basically an alternative to the animated GIF but with several benefits. At first, it is always better to use an animated GIF as this format is supported by all browsers without any JavaScript code or additional markup, but the ?dark side? of it is that an animated GIF allows only 256 colors and you cannot control animation in any way. The jAni loads a long vertical image and changes its background positi

14. YOU LOVE

A lovely website that has made attractive and elegant use of jQuery by playing with its background. The background of the website uses jQuery background animations to show starry blue night clouds ad moon. Moreover the background is generated to reflect various stages of the day.

15. jQuery Tutorial ? Animate a hover with jQuery

Animate an image while hovering it and show the visitors information while doing that. Sounds simple huh? Well it is, but the effect is nice and can be nice for a portfolio, for example.

16. Crafting an Animated Postcard With jQuery

Nicely illustrated banners are?nice. But why not add a little pizazz by using animation like Flash websites do? In this tutorial we will learn the basics of setting up a continuous animation which can be applied pretty much anywhere.

17. Building an Animated Cartoon Robot with jQuery

Heyy lets build a Robot using jQuery. Yes i mean ehat I say. Lets see how to build a robot using jQuery.

18. Creating a polaroid photo viewer with CSS3 and jQuery

Placing images on simple polaroids on a webpage simply did not do it for me. I wanted to drag them around, rotate them and still have a fun time. That iss were CSS and jQuery come in play. By combining the CSS3 Box Shadow and Rotate properties, this effect is relatively easy to create. When dragging a polaroid around, you will see the shadow. When it is placed down, it iss rotated to the left or the right (random).

19. Animate Curtains Opening with jQuery

In this tutorial you will learn how to animate a curtain opening scene in jQuery!

20. Animate Image Filling Up Using jQuery

Leran how to fill in the contents of an image with smooth animation using jQuery.

21. How to Make an Impressive Animated Landscape Header with jQuery

In this tutorial we will start with a cartoon themed header, build two different states for content and animate a transition between them using jQuery.