This article on Building Single Page Applications(SPAs) With jQuery’s Best Friends; DocumentCloud’s Backbone.js, Underscore.js, LAB.js and jQuery templating.SPAs are web applications or websites which persistently run in the same page without requiring a reload for further navigation. All of the code needed for your initial load in these applications is driven by either local data or data retrieved from a web server on demand, such as any additional data required from your app that might be driven by user actions.
An Awesome jQuery Plugin For Creating Magical Layouts – Isotope
Isotope is an impressive jQuery plugin that enables us to sort items and create smart layouts.Using the plugin, any given list of items can be filtered with show/hide effects and they can be re-ordered with slick animations.The plugin’s layout features are very powerful as well. With a simple function, items can be converted into horizontal/vertical layouts or arranged intelligently within a grid and much more. And, all with nice animations.
Pull Out Content Panel with jQuery
We will create a content panel that slides out at a predefined scroll position. It will reveal a teaser with related content and it can be expanded to full page size to show more. A custom slider allows to scroll through many items in the panel.Depending on how many items can fit to the user’s screen, we will adapt the item container in order make the maximum number of items fit, centering it horizontally.
How To Create a Cute Popup Bar With HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery
We’ll be creating a bar that pops up at the top of a page, and stays above the content (similar to ‘hellobar’). The popup bar was only tested in Chrome and Safari and may not work in other browsers. The bar can be used to display information, for example your latest blog post, to the user.
The way the bar pops out at the top makes sure it’ll be seen. And after the visitor has seen the information, he/she has the option to hide the bar.
zClip: jQuery ZeroClipboard
zClip is a lightweight jQuery “copy to clipboard” plugin built using the popular Zero Clipboard library. This plugin uses an invisible Adobe Flash movie that is fully compatible with Flash Player 10 and below.
Features:
- Avoids built in browser security conflicts by using a 3rd party browser plugin (Adobe Flash)
- Invisible overlay, no interference with page design
- Support for CSS “:hover” and “:active” states
- Preserves the targeted element’s “click” “mouseenter” and “mouseleave” events
- Supplies callback functions for “before copy” and “after copy”
Autotab: jQuery auto-tabbing and filter plugin
Autotab is a jQuery plugin that provides auto-tabbing and filtering on text fields in a form. Once the maximum number of characters has been reached within a defined text fields, the focus is automatically set to the defined target of the element. Likewise, clearing out the text field’s content by pressing backspace eventually places the focus on the elements previous target.
Why jQuery Autotab and not some other auto-tab script?
- Auto-tabbing behaves logically, in both tabbing forward and tabbing backwards.
- It allows you to easily change your text in a tab that would otherwise auto-tab away.
- It can filter text fields, ie. restrict a phone number fields to just numbers.
- It’s small, fast, easy to load and built on the powerful jQuery library.
