Best jQuery Image Hover Effect Plugins & Tutorials with Demo

    Photo Zoom Out Effect with jQuery

    Photo Zoom Out Effect with jQuery

    Today we will show you how to create a simple image zoom out effect with jQuery. The idea is show some images which are zoomed in initially and when hovering over an image it gets zoomed out. This effect could be used in photography websites or image galleries. Our example uses some black and white images to focus on the effect.

    Build A Greyscale jQuery Image Gallery

    Build A Greyscale jQuery Image Gallery

    Displaying images galleries on your web pages can be very complicated, much like the jQuery modal boxes, today you will learn a very simple way to create a nice looking image gallery in CSS and jQuery.

    The gallery has a main image and multiple alternative images which on the hover event will change the main image.

    The CSS will be used to setup the look of the gallery and jQuery is used to change the main image with the alternative images.

    Thumbnail Proximity Effect with jQuery and CSS3

    Thumbnail Proximity Effect with jQuery and CSS3

    Today we want to show you how to create a neat thumbnail proximity effect with jQuery. The idea is to scale thumbnails when hovering over them and also scale their neighbouring thumbnails proportionally to their distance. We’ll also make a description appear.

    This is based on a request we once got from a reader who asked if the effect on http://porscheeveryday.com/ could be achieved with jQuery. This is our attempt to recreate the basics of that effect.

    jQuery ContentHover Plugin

    jQuery ContentHover Plugin

    ContentHover is a small jQuery plugin that helps you show some hidden content on top of an element when the mouse hovers over it. There are options to chose how your hover effect would appear, like fade in or slide in from any direction, you can change the opacity of the overlay etc.

    Flow Slider: Mouse-Controlled jQuery Image Slider

    Flow Slider: Mouse-Controlled jQuery Image Slider

    Flow Slider is a jQuery plugin that lets you slide your HTML content as you always dreamed to. Flow Slider allows you to select from a range of transition effects or add your own, change settings, attach events, interact with the slider, and dress it in any design. It works by converting an unordered list into a slider and can be browsed by hovering to the right or left side of it.

    Item Blur Effect with CSS3 and jQuery

    jQuery css3 Blur Effect

    Today we want to show you how to create a simple blur effect for text-based items. The idea is to have a set of text boxes that will get blurred and scaled down once we hover over them. The item in focus will scale up. This will create some kind of “focus” effect that drwas the attention to the currently hovered item.

    We’ll be using CSS3 transitions and some jQuery to apply the respective classes. Since CSS3 transitions are not supported in order browsers, the demo should be best viewed in Safari or Chrome (here we got the smoothest transitions).

    Hovercard jQuery Plugin for Labels, Links & Information

    Hovercard jQuery Plugin for Labels, Links & Information

    Hovercard is a free light weight jQuery plugin that enables you to display related information with the hovered label, link, or any html element of your choice. It comes with built in Twitter and Facebook hovercard.

    Hover and Click Trigger for Circular Elements with jQuery

    Hover and Click Trigger for Circular Elements with jQuery

    Applying a :hover pseudo-class to an element is widely known as the classic “hovering” over an element on a web page. A problem that arose with the introduction of the border-radius property is the non-realistic triggering of the hover event when entering the bounding box of the element and not just the actual visible area. This becomes extreme when we create a circle by setting the border-radius of a square to 50% (half of its outer width and height).

    Today we want to share one possible solution to the circle hovering problem. We’ll create a plugin that will take care of the ‘mouseenter’, ‘mouseleave’ and ‘click’ events to be triggered only on the circular shape of the element and not its bounding box.

    jQuery Page Peel

    jQuery Page Peel

    This little jQuery plugin which does exactly what it says on the tin – creates a page peel! This is a little page animation which sits at the top right hand of the screen and when the mouse hovers it the page “peels” down and reveals the content behind it. It could be used to display a popular area or feature of your website but is most commonly known these days to display advertisements. Let’s face it the page peel grabs your attention straight away!

    Circle Navigation Effect with CSS3

    jQuery Circle Navigation Effect with CSS3

    Today we want to show you how to create a beautiful hover effect for an image navigation using CSS3. The idea is to expand a circular navigation with an arrow and make a bubble with a thumbnail appear. In our example we will be showing the thumbnail of the next and previous slider image on hovering the arrows. The effect is done with CSS3 transitions.