The first dock we’ll build uses the jQuery Fisheye Menu plugin mentioned above. It’s pretty lightweight (~7kb with dependencies) but the main reason I wanted to use this one was because it’s incredibly smooth, no stuttering.

As you can see in the demo, it’s incredibly smooth and responsive. The downside is that you can’t use fixed positioning with it if the page needs to scroll as it will break. If you don’t need it fixed within the browser window then it works great.

This is a great example of “outside the box” concepts in websites and provides an interactive and fun interface.

Required files (I’ve combined the Fisheye plugin and iutil.js in the demo files).

• jQuery 1.3.2
• Interface: Fisheye Menu plugin
• Interface: iutil.js (dependency)

You can see more here

Popularity: 10%

Some good editors for you texareas in you forms with jquery:

WYMeditor

WYMeditor is a web-based WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) XHTML editor (not WYSIWYG).

WYMeditor’s main concept is to leave details of the document’s visual layout, and to concentrate on its structure and meaning, while trying to give the user as much comfort as possible (at least as WYSIWYG editors). Read article >>

Popularity: 10%

1. jQuery Combobox

query.combobox is an unobtrusive way of creating a HTML type combobox from a existing HTML Select element(s).

A combobox is technically a ‘Select’ HTML element. A combobox is also be known as a drop down list.

This control was written due to the fact that the standard Select element cannot be styled, or is limited in what can be styled.
For instance, in Internet Explorer 6,  the individual items in the list (HTML Options) are very restricted in styling, allowing only the background-color and color and a few other CSS properties. Read article >>

Popularity: 13%

One of the best feature of jquery is that you can use it to create file upload systems. Here are some jquery uploads plugins

• Ajax File Upload.

Basically show how the Ajax File Upload works. Read article >>

Popularity: 7%

• jMedia – accessible multi-media embedding.

jmedia is a jQuery plugin for unobtrusive, accessible and flexible multi-media embedding. Read article >>

Popularity: 8%

If you need to make a search option for your site you will find this autosugest plugins quite helpfull.

• jQuery Suggest.

Some new features include:

1. Improved cross-browser compatibility (tested to work the same across Firefox/Safari/IE6/IE7)
2. Cache bug has been fixed that caused suggestions to “forget” to hide
3. Moved some stylings from JavaScript to CSS
4. Cleaned up code, started heavy commenting
5. Not exactly a new feature, but jquery.suggest will soon be on jQuery’s plugin page Read article >>

Popularity: 30%

• jQuery UI Datepicker.

The project gained traction in late 2006, when it was first released. Keith Wood decided to step on board to help the project, adding a whole slew of features. Meanwhile I have been getting emails from all around the world about my date picker (too many emails). We added feature after feature that was requested by our users – now the project has well over 35 customization options and counting. The datepicker is also in around 30 languages, showing its adoption worldwide. Read article >>

Popularity: 14%

Need to rate your article? need to rate your photos? Here are 4 jquery plugin that could help you

• jQuery Star Rating Plugin.

This is a jquery plugin for star rating systems. The intial inspiration for this script came from “Wil Stuckey’s” star rating system. But the original script requires too much coding. Also it does not have provision for developing a star system (such as GMail, where you star or un star an email). I have modified the original script to make it simpler for user to develop a star rating system. Check the demo below – hover and click on stars to change there state Read article >>

Popularity: 9%

Here you could find some jquery plugins that could help you validate some forms.

• jQuery Validation.

A single line of jQuery to select the form and apply the validation plugin. And a bit of metadata on each element to specify the validation rules.

Of course that isn’t the only way to specify rules. You also don’t have to rely on those default messages, but they come in handy when starting to setup validation for a form. Read article >>

Popularity: 3%