Gridtab is a lightweight jquery plugin to create grid based responsive tabs, with separate settings for any responsive breakpoint. It’s always a hard task finding the right plugin to solve a common UI design pattern – Grid based responsive tabs. There are only a very few plugins out there, that are either buggy, rely heavily on DOM manipulation or hardly customisable. GridTab works on CSS flexbox layout and hence it’s lightweight.

Muuri creates responsive, sortable, filterable and draggable grid layouts. They manage to pack a lot of features into a small package. Muuri is basically Packery + Masonry + Isotope and jQuery UI sortable.

Muuri’s layout system allows positioning the grid items within the container in pretty much any way imaginable. The default “First Fit” bin packing layout algorithm generates similar layouts as Packery and Masonry. The implementation is heavily based on the “maxrects” approach as described by Jukka Jylänki in his research A Thousand Ways to Pack the Bin. However, you can also provide your own layout algorithm to position the items in any way you want.

Muuri uses Velocity for animating the grid items (positioining/showing/hiding) and Hammer.js for handling the dragging. Hammer.js is an optional dependency that is only required if dragging is enabled, but Velocity is a hard dependency.

And if you’re wondering about the name of the library “muuri” is Finnish meaning a wall.

A word of warning. Muuri is currently under active development and might be still a bit rough on the edges so production use is not recommended just yet. But when did that ever stop you ;)

This jQuery plugin allows you to display a list as a set of boxes that can be ordered and filtered as desired.

Features

– filtering and sorting options available
– supports unlimited number of elements
– animation and CSS customizable
– boxes are href-able

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Lightweight jQuery extension for creating cursor tooltips that follow mouse movement and position.

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scrollReveal.js is plain vanilla JS library that allows you to reveal elements as they enter the viewport. It’s remarkable in that it’s only 3kb minified, that’s small. The range of effects you can choose are vast, and it uses natural language to define the animation you want to run. No need for CSS3 transition and a script to detect the current page position in the browser window. Use ScrollReveal and be done with it!

A plugin developed with jQuery, that allows to dynamically zoom images with mouseover, and view details with mouse move.
Compatible with: jQuery 1.7+ in Chrome 42+, Firefox 41+, Safari 9+, Opera 29+, Internet Explorer 9+

Marginotes takes your jQuery selection and adds notes to the margin with the text provided in HTML attributes. If you don’t want to use jQuery, there’s also a version of marginotes without it.

Marginotes works by adding a desc attribute to an HTML element, which will be displayed as a tooltip:

It works with links, as well as with <span> elements.

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iframe videos can be a pain for responsive pages. MediaWrapper is a plugin for wrapping iframes and embedded videos to behave more like images.

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scrollSpeed is a lightweight jQuery extension for custom scrolling speed in modern web browsers. Supports vertical or horizontal scrolling direction, including user-defined easing. After setup, reference the scrollSpeed() method and modify the step and speed parameters to create the desired scrolling effect. The step parameter defaults to 100 units, while speed defaults to 800 milliseconds; custom easing is optional.

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If you are looking to add a little flair to your anchor scrolling, this plugin can help. AnchorScroll.js is a lightweight, easy-to-use jQuery plugin for smooth scrolling to anchor targets that can also add classes to elements on scroll events. You can add blur effects, bounce effects or even text to let your user know you are scrolling to the right spot.

TypeIt is a high quality jQuery plugin that types text a given string or strings of text on a page. Its responsive, lightweight and easy to customize.

To get started you can either pass in settings object, use data-typeit-* attributes, or You can define your string by dropping it directly in the HTML element. You can have it play back multiple strings and even set it to delete the previous string before starting a new one for that realistic effect. You can also alter details like speed, and even pacing to make it feel like a person is doing the typing.

Flavr is a fresh and stylish popup dialog for your next flat website. It is built to be responsive, able to adapt its layout and position to any screen size of your viewer with the power of CSS.

To get the best user experience, flavr is animated using the popular animate.css. And most importantly, flavr works on any modern browser (IE8+), any device and any screen size.

Features of flavr include:

• Clean and modern flat design
• Well documented
• Fully responsive
• Lightweight, yet powerful
• Bootstrap compatible
• CSS3 animated in modern browsers
• jQuery powered
• Cross browser support

This plugin is available for $6 from the Envato Market and is quality checked and comes with future updates and 6 months of support. Additional support is also available.

If you are looking for a lightweight jQuery plugin for complex two-way data binding in real time, jQuery.my might be the perfect solution.

Here’s how it works: The tool mutates the object given as a data source, reflecting interactions between the user and the interface. Data bindings, facade appearance and CSS styling of an app are all defined using single manifest, which is standard javascript object. Manifests are JSONable.

Here are a few more features:

• jQuery.my recognizes standard HTML controls and complex composites created using rich UI plugins. Controls built with jQuery UI, Select2, CodeMirror, Ace, Redactor, CLeditor, jQuery Mobile are supported out of the box.
• jQuery.my provides comprehensive validation, conditional formatting, complex dependencies, runtime form structure manipulation. $.my forms can run nested, each jQuery.my instance can be a composite control for parent form.
• Syntax of $.my manifest is very simple, lean and unobtrusive. There exist specialized in-browser IDE for $.my apps authoring. This IDE is a built-in component of cloudwall.me system.

The result is a fully interactive set of tools, tables, curves and layouts that can work in a variety of applications. Check out the demo to see how it can work for you.

Drag and Drop is a full website and content management system back end with an included database. This plugin works with that system to create three options for using and displaying sortable lists with jQuery, CSS, mySQL, AJAX and PHP.

The first example populates the list from the database, allows you to sort the order, then allows you to save he list using ajax functionality so the page does not reload. In addition, there is a message box that shows the status of whether the boxes have been moved and not saved and whether changes have been implemented to the database.

The second example is a simple sort list that allows you to produce a list of varying length and apply a drag and drop feature.

The third example shows how the functionality can work across a multiple column format.

This tool works across a variety of platforms and includes support for touch devices and lets you save lists via a cookie session. Drag and Drop Sortable Lists is available from the Envato Market for $5. The license includes future updates and has been quality checked by Envato. Additional support is also available.