16 Best jQuery Widgets

Splash up your designs with jQuery widgets. A collection of smart widgets combining usability and style, a must for designers and developers.

1. AnchorCheck jQuery PLugin

AnchorCheck is a lightweight checkbox replacement control that does not rely on an actual checkbox being rendered first.

2. Another Color Picker jQuery Plugin

This rudimentary color picker plugin was designed for use in small UIs. It does not use image files and does nothing fancy.

3. AjaxPager jQuery Plugin

AjaxPager is a jQuery UI widget plugin for building javascript pagers quickly and easily.

4. Activebar2 jQuery Plugin

Activebar2 is a crossbrowser information bar mimicking the look and feel of the widely spread bars used in modern browsers.

5. FancyTip jQuery Tooltip Plugin

Fancytip is an easy-to-use plugin allowing for nice-looking tooltips to be associated with any element selectable via jQuery, with a good degree of configuration available.

6. FlexBox jQuery Plugin

FlexBox is a jQuery plugin that is intended to be a very flexible replacement for html textboxes and dropdowns, using ajax to retrieve and bind JSON data.

7. AP Tags jQuery Plugin

AP Tags is a simple to use tagging component that adds the ability to quickly create tags using a single text box.

8. HeatColor jQuery Plugin

HeatColor is a plugin that allows you to assign colors to elements, based on a value derived from that element.

9. Autocomplete jQuery Plugin

Autocomplete an input field to enable users quickly finding and selecting some value, leveraging searching and filtering.

10. Flowplayer – Flash video player for jQuery developers

Flowplayer is a GPL licensed Flash based video player that you can use to embed video streams on your website. It has been designed for web developers, scripters and of course jQuery users. Here are the highlights

11. AutoSnippet – Automatic Code Snippet Generator

AutoSnippet automatically generates the code snippet from the source code (HTML, CSS and JavaScript). No more cumbersome repetitive tasks and no more inconsistencies between example and real code.

12. Bogodice jQuery Plugin

BogoDice provides rudimentary “dice rolling” behaviour. Simply apply the plugin to a button element, then clicking that element will “roll” the defined number of “dice”.

13. Countdown! jQuery Plugin

This is a Query plugin that sets a div or span to show a countdown to a given time.

14. checkboxToSlider jQuery Plugin

This plugin enables you to transform form checkboxes into neat sliders. The slider hides the checkbox and will update its value after a status change.

15. Crayonbox Color Picker – jQuery Widget

Crayon box is a really simple color picker. The idea is to make it as simple as possible for the user, while leaving lots of options up to you.

16. jQuery Delicious.com Feeds Displayer Plugin

Load a list of bookmarks, tags, network members, and/or fans from del.icio.us for a specific user using the del.icio.us JSON feeds (http://delicious.com/help/feeds/), and without need for any server-side component.