Best jQuery Menus Plugins & Tutorials with Demo

    jQuery Multi Level Menu – FX CSS Menu with Submenus

    jQuery Multi Level Menu

    CSS Menu with visual effect powered by jQuery. Javascript is used for effects only. Full cross-browser compatibility including IE6. Effects: smooth fade animation on mouse over and unfold submenu appearance. Easy-to-setup: simple nested unordered list for menu items with unlimited levels.

    jQuery contextMenu

    jQuery context Menu

    The jQuery contextMenu Plugin was designed for web applications in need of menus on a possibly large amount of objects. Unlike implementations as a beautiful site’s or trendskitchens’ this contextMenu treats the menu as the primary object. That means, that a single menu is defined that can be used by multiple objects. Unlike the mentioned plugins, contextMenu doesn’t need to bind itself to triggering objects. This allows injecting and removing triggers without having to re-initialize or update contextMenu.

    Multi Level Hierarchical jQuery Menu: jQSimpleMenu

    jQuery multi level navigation menu

    As your website grows, so does the need for better navigation and sometimes the navigation becomes the driving force for better user experience. jQSimpleMenu is a multi-level hierarchical jQuery drop down menu that helps you add drop down menu in your website without writing a single line of code.

    Convert a Menu to a Dropdown for Small Screens with jQuery

    Convert a Menu to a Dropdown for Small Screens with jQuery

    The Five Simple Steps website has a responsive design with a neat feature. When the browser window is narrow, the menu in the upper right converts from a regular row of links into a dropdown menu.

    How to Build a Sliding One Page Portfolio with jQuery

    How to Build a Sliding One Page Portfolio with jQuery

    In this tutorial, I will show you how to create an interesting jQuery-powered one-page site. One page sites are usually a great way to show your prospective clients how good you are at what you do. This one is no exception.

    Flexible Slide-to-top jQuery Accordion

    Flexible Slide-to-top jQuery Accordion

    In today’s tutorial we’ll be creating a simple responsive accordion that, when opened, will slide to the top of the viewport and reveal the content by fading it in. The idea is to avoid that the user has to scroll the content area into place. We’ll also add some nice CSS3 transitions for the arrow to appear and to rotate when we click on an item. The accordion will be flexible, meaning that it will have a liquid width adjusting to the screen size.

    Slide Subnav navigation Plugin

    Slide Subnav navigation Plugin

    Here is very nice animated slide subnav navigation menu.

    Creating CSS3/jQuery crossbrowser Drop-down menu with tabs

    Creating CSS3/jQuery crossbrowser Drop-down menu with tabs

    This is our seventh CSS3 menu. Today we will make dropdown menu with parental tabs (as first level). Part of the work we pass on to the shoulders of jQuery (switching tabs, display popups). In the current version – we have three levels of menus.

    Creating a Click-action CSS3 Dropdown Menu with jQuery

    Creating a Click-action CSS3 Dropdown Menu with jQuery

    Nowadays, pure CSS3 menus still very popular. Mostly – this is UL-LI based menus. Today we will continue making nice menus for you. This will nice dropdown menu (looks like menu at http://www.microsoft.com/) with onclicking (instead onhover).

    Highlight Web Page Elements With jQuery Highlighter

    Highlight Web Page Elements With jQuery Highlighter

    jQuery Highlighter neatly highlights the web page elements and helps you to direct your readers to the places you want them to look.

    This jQuery plugin is handy for products showcases, guided tours, portfolios and helpful for the color blind & visually impaired people.

    It is highly customizable and has built-in support for keyboard navigation. The plugin works fine on Chrome, Firefox and Safari (issues with IE).