Best Collection Of jQuery Utilities

Would not it be great if all your complex and hectic tasks be done with just a tiny piece of code? Then these jQuery Utilities will turn your wish true. Check out these wonderful jQuery Utilities that help you perfrom all your much sought tasks in a jiffy. Write less and really do more with jQuery Utilities.

1. jCryption

jCryption is a javascript HTML-Form encryption plugin, which encrypts the POST/GET-Data that will be sent when you submit a form.

2. jQuery Week Calendar

The jquery-week-calendar plugin provides a simple and flexible way of including a weekly calendar in your application. It is built on top of jquery and jquery ui and is inspired by other online weekly calendars such as google calendar.

3. jQuery UI Selectmenu

Selectmenu plugin is designed to duplicate and extend the functionality of a native HTML select element, and lets you customize the look and feel, add icons, and create hierarchy within the options. Best of all, it is built with progressive enhancement and accessibility in mind, has all the native mouse and keyboard controls, and is ThemeRoller-ready.

4. Uploadify – jQuery File Upload Plugin

Uploadify is a jQuery plugin that allows the easy integration of a multiple (or single) file uploads on your website. It requires Flash and any backend development language. An array of options allow for full customization for advanced users, but basic implementation is so easy that even coding novices can do it.

5. AD Gallery – A jQuery gallery plugin

I got inspired by myself when I wrote the Editable Select plugin, so I decided to write another one. It is a gallery plugin that is a bit different than plugins like Thickbox and Lightbox.

6. ctRotator

An highly customizable item/image rotating script. Supports creating the rotator from various data sources, such as JavaScript object, HTML UL/OL list, RSS feed, Flickr feed. More data sources can be supported with custom bridges.

7. Form advisor

Form advisor is a ittle plugin to describe form inputs in friendly way.

8. NyroModal – jQuery Plugin

Designers seem to like using modal windows more and more, as they provide a quick way to show data without reloading the entire page. The big problem I experienced with every plugin I tried either using Prototype, Scriptaculous or jQuery is the customization. They say you can do whatever you want simply but that is not fully true. I tried to solve these problems with my plugin. Thanks to the useful jQuery function like animate, fadeTo or the future enchant, it is pretty simple.

9. imBannerRotater – jQuery Plugin

I created simple plugin that rotates images on a page. There are two modes. In the default mode, the plugin will display a randomly selected image. In the other mode, the plugin will rotate images on a page (fading in/out). In this mode, you can select the speed of the rotation. The image data can be retrieved ajaxally (json or a comma separated list). If the data is Json, a url can be added for each image.

10. Sunday Morning – jQuery Google Translator

SundayMorning is a jQuery plugin which allow site-owners to offer their visitors some easy and fancy ways to translate their content in more than 30 languages.

11. jQuery youtube playlist plugin – youtubeplaylist

For a recent client project, we wanted to be able to turn a list of YouTube links into a playlist. This would allow the client to manage their videos on YouTube and simply insert links to the videos on their site. With javascript enabled a nice playlist is created, whilst without javasript the user gets a regular list of links to youtube pages.

12. Fly-To-Basket Effect With jQuery

Making the product flying to your shopping basket, this is really fun effect for eCommerse sites. I think I ll use it in next project and make shopping experience more interesting.

13. Airport – Information board text effect jQuery plugin

Airport is a rather simple text effect plugin for Jquery. It emulates the style of those flickering information boards you sometime find on airports and train stations.

14. BS Sound jQuery Plugin

With this BS SOUND plugin you will be able to add mp3 file to your page without any player. Just with custom button.

15. jQuery plugin: autoResize

Inspired by Jason Frame method, I have created an animating autoResize jQuery plugin. Although it was inspired by his plugin it has a few slight differences, most notably the way in which the off-screen “testing” takes place.

16. jQuery SuperBox

jQuery Superbox is a script which allows you display windows with the lightbox effect.

17. jQuery Plugin: Tokenizing Autocomplete Text Entry

This is a jQuery plugin to allow users to select multiple items from a predefined list, using autocompletion 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.

18. Create astonishing iCal-like calendars with jQuery

I wanted to create a calendar that would be similar to the iPhone Calendar application (or, if you want, to the little calendar on the left bottom corner in iCal). And I also wanted to keep the code as little and sweet as possible. So I have created one using jQuery.

19. AnythingZoomer jQuery Plugin

You have a small area. You mouse over it. An area pops up giving you a zoomed in closer look. This is a jQuery plugin that does it. I am not going to tell you what you should use it for or elaborate use-case scenarios. Your own creativity can help you there.