jquery.peekABar: Notification Bar Plugin

This jQuery plugin for a notification bar has a lot of customization options. It all starts with a line of HTML as bar text and then the options flow from there.

Here’s a quick look at everything you can do with jquery.peekABar:

• Auto hide and show
• Delay hide
• Change padding and color specifications
• Add different types of animation for how the bar shows on the screen
• Add custom CSS
• Change the opacity of the tool
• Change notification bar positioning on the screen
• Close and open with a click

You also have control over event and instance methods with this plugin.

Even once installed, the code is easy to follow for making your custom changes. It’s a tool that can be used for almost any website type with a fairly small degree of difficulty. You get a lot of bang with this little plugin.