jQuery is a lightweight, cross-browser compliant, and extremely powerful JavaScript framework. jQuery enables you to add interactivity and increased functionality to your website. jQuery is much useful because it can help you to create animations and interactions.
As we all know jQuery helps in creating some awesome effects with the use of jQuery Plugins. That is the reason, we always try to find out the best jQuery plugins released in every month to make your job easier so that you don’t have to waste your time for searching them. For example, you can check our list of best jQuery plugins of May 2010. Alternatively, you can also check out best JavaScript / Ajax effects for modern web design which we compiled few days before.
Now, let’s see fresh jQuery plugins which are really useful to create animations, tables, forms, charts etc. So, let’s get straight to list of 29 best and useful jQuery plugins of June 2010. I hope you will appreciate the work of developers who give their time to create such awesome jQuery plugins that you can use for free.
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1) wdCalender : wdCalendar is a jquery based google calendar clone. It cover most google calendar features like Day/week/month view provided. It can create/update/remove events by drag & drop. You can easily integrate with database.
2) The Footer Plugin : This plugin ensures that the footer of your page always keeps itself at the bottom of the page. If the body height is less than the page height, the footer goes to the bottom of the page. Otherwise it remains attached at end of the content.
3) Dual Slider : A great option to have as a splash feature at the top of your site, highlights recent articles you want to advertise, that might have a nice graphic or even a video…basically anything you want. Plugin takes whatever your database has spat out and pulls it into an attractive dual animated slider. You are only limited by your own creativity in terms of styling or tweaking the animations to suit your needs.
4) jQuery DivGrow Plugin : The plugin will crop the container div to the initial height value and add a link to the bottom to expand it. When clicked the container wil expand to the height set in the div rel attribute (e.g. rel=”300″) and provide a click link to collapse it. The expand and collapse action are animated.
5) Popeye – an inline lightbox alternative : jQuery.popeye is an advanced image gallery script built on the JavaScript library jQuery. Use it to save space when displaying a collection of images and offer your users a nice and elegant way to show a big version of your images without leaving the page flow.
6) Collapsible Fieldsets : For those of you that use Drupal, this is a jQuery plugin that mimics the fieldsets you find there. You can initialize the fieldsets to start either in an opened or closed format, and degrades gracefully.
7) jQuery. Scratchie : jQuery Scratchie Scratchie is a fully-customizable scratchcard plugin. Define a background image and an overlay image or color and clicking and click and drag or just drag the mouse over the overlay to reveal the target image underneath.
8 ) Scroll Something : This is a plugin which helps you to scroll the images. To add a backround image to an item, you only have to put an image in the item. Just give the image a class called “itemBackground”.
9) Get user Facebook Albums and Pictures : getFacebookAlbums is a plugin that allows the user to connect on Facebook and choose a picture among his/her own albums. It’s an alternative to the simple upload form the hard drive disk.
10) JQF1 – jQuery FormOne Form Styling Plugin : jQuery FormOne is the most completer form styling plugin. Compatible with all browsers that allows you to change all attribute with a small coding.
11) ShowLoading : This plugin is designed to show a loading image over a specific area of the screen (e.g. a specific div or other dom element) while an ajax request is running.
12) AeroWindow : AeroWindow generates very cool Boxes in the Aero Style, inspired by the style of Window7.The popup window offers the usual options and full functionality similar to Windows windows.
13) jQuerynotice : This plugin allows you to show some notifications at the top of your website with just a simple line.
14) jQuery Title Control : A plugin to replace a title for a selected object and append a new element with that title in the original element. Together with CSS it can be styled and placed.
15) jQuery – Typing : This plugin assign callbacks for started/stopped typing events.
16) jQuery isHovered : A jQuery plugin to test if an element is currently hovered.
17) If Select Width : This jQuery plugin proposes a workaround. Applying this plugin makes the select element in Internet Explorer appear to work as it would work in Firefox, Opera etc by allowing the option elements to open at full width without loosing the look and style of the fixed width.
18) jQuery Easy Confirm Dialog : This is a jQuery based confirm plugin module that will act as the build in confirm-function in javascript but with the ability to style the dialog window. Only using built in jQuery and jQuery UI functions.
19) jQuery Blockify : Allows you to turn any element into a clickable link based on an anchor tag within said element. HTML5 makes this plugin obsolete (because you can wrap an anchor tag around block level elements) but is still useful for the time being. If your element contains multiple anchor tags, you can pass in a selector to filter down to the desired tag.
20) Sooperfish : SooperFish is an easy to use dropdown-menu plugin with total configuration control and clean code.
21) gSearch : gSearch is a lightweight jQuery plugin that helps you embed Google Search Results into your website. With only 2 KB in size it is very flexible and highly customizable.
22) Color Animation : What’s really missing from jQuery is animating colors. This plugin will add this feature. With this plugin, you can animate the following properties like color, backgroundColor, borderColor etc.
23) Shadow Animation : With this jQuery plugin, you can extend the animate function to support the CSS box shadow-property. You can animate the color, the x- and y-offset, the blur-radius and spread-radius.
24) Twitterize : A simple jQuery plugin that allows you to create a floating div with the latest ‘n’ updates from someone. Optionally you can create a link to go to that user’s twitter profile.
25) gvChart : gvChart is a plugin for jQuery, that uses Google Charts to create interactive visualization by using data from the HTML table tag. It is easy in use and additionally it allows you to create five types of the charts.
26) jQuery Form Fill Plugin : The”jQuery Form Fill” fills forms from JSON objects.
27) GlobalMoneyInput : GlobalMoneyInput is a jQuery plugin to provide an easy way to input money values. All you need is to include. you can apply a mask to input localized money data based on Microsoft’s jQuery Global plugin.
28) jQuery News Ticker : An easy to use, slick and flexible news ticker in the style of the BBC News page ticker.
29) Canimate : If you’ve ever wanted to create an animation using a series of images for your website, but were forced to an alternative because you didn’t want to deal with the constraints of the GIF filetype, like color limit and difficult-to-deal-with FPS controls, then Canimate is the solution.
With Canimate, you can take any series of images and, using the Canimate naming convention, have them animate at any speed. You can treat the element that holds the image just like any other, including giving it borders, dragging it, etc.

































July 16, 2010 at 9:54 pm
Nice collection of plugins! Thanks!
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July 17, 2010 at 1:02 am
If I see one more blog post with a title that contains the meaningless phrase “best and useful,” I am going to explode.
July 17, 2010 at 2:04 am
There are some really useful jQuery plugins among these
July 17, 2010 at 4:21 am
Wow.. I really like wdCalendar. I have been looking for something to replace a simple reminders system and this looks good. Thanks Yogesh!
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July 17, 2010 at 10:12 am
I have one dout, after installing jQuery in my Web site. My site will slow down? i mean the performance in loading my site slowly? I wanted to know about this, so that i can install the Plug-in in my Web Site.
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July 17, 2010 at 2:04 pm
Bittu, there will some problem loading, when you install jQuery in your Web Site, but not so much loading problems will arise. I visited Ur Web site, i think for now donnot try this.
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July 17, 2010 at 11:17 am
really nice collection of plugins thanks yogesh
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July 19, 2010 at 8:45 pm
A really put together list of jQuery plugins.
The resource is ideal for developers looking at implementing jQuery for the first time.
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July 20, 2010 at 7:55 pm
Great collection of jQuery plugin for the month of June, thanks for sharing it…
July 21, 2010 at 2:03 am
Cool Great Collections… Thx for sharing…
July 27, 2010 at 1:31 am
These plugins are really wonderful. Hope you will continue to post this kind of article for helping new developers.. best of luck
July 28, 2010 at 7:19 pm
Thanks for including me in the writeup! The other plugins look fantastic as well!
August 3, 2010 at 12:03 am
A really good collection of plugins. Some nice effects to use on my gallery site.
Thanks.
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