Articles tagged with: JQuery


May 1, 20117

6 Best JQuery Lightbox Scripts to Show Your Images Using Lightbox Effect

Categories: Web development
6 Best JQuery Lightbox Scripts to Show Your Images Using Lightbox Effect
Do you remember life without the lightbox? It wasn’t that long ago, yet lightboxes are popping up everywhere, literally. In 2006, the first lightbox script was released by Lokesh Dhakar and has become a staple for websites and blogs alike. Though they’re mainly used for larger items, even companies like Facebook have adopted lightboxes to display photos in an easy-to-see, easy-to-scroll manner. The original javascript had plenty of good qualities, but it became widely adopted when web developers started making their own lightbox applications.The original Lightbox has not been lost in newer formats. In contrast, lightboxes have been improved and now incorporate features and functions that enhance the overall quality and user-experience. It is hard to rank the best scripts in any specific order because they all have been crafted extremely well. Choosing the best script for your site will really come down to coding preferences. Fancybox Fancybox has taken a pretty direct approach and is an upgrade from pure javascript to jQuery. The overall appearance of this lightbox is like the name says, fancy. The interface is clean and displays images and associated caption text nicely. In addition to looking nice, this script displays HTML elements, SWF movies, iframes and AJAX ...
Nov 8, 20109

JQuery: An introduction

Categories: JQuery
JQuery: An introduction
As a web developer we all are familiar with JavaScript. Sometimes we need complex functions to implement our business logic. It is very easy to write complex functions with a few lines of code using JavaScript libraries.The JQuery library, referred to from here on simply as JQuery, is an extremely popular and easy to use JavaScript library originally written by John Resig. The initial release came on 14 January 2006 and since this time it has continued to be modified and refined by its creator and a growing community of contributors. It is open-source and completely free of charge.JQuery is a small library based on few very simple intuitive principles. Working with RAW JavaScript or DOM Programming does bring-in its challenges while handling the browser-specific quirks. JQuery provides quite a few utilities to help working in browser agnostic environments. JQuery library strikes right balance between size, feature set and ease of use.JQuery would help bring-in considerable productivity gains and it’s easy to learn and work. This tool has the potential to bring-about quiet a change in client side development with complex UI with front end logic in JavaScript library.JQuery is primarily an element selection and DOM manipulation library. It supports ...
Aug 20, 201080

WordPress Video Lightbox Plugin – Display Videos and Images in a Fancy Lightbox Overlay

Categories: Wordpress Plugin
WordPress Video Lightbox Plugin – Display Videos and Images in a Fancy Lightbox Overlay
The WordPress Video Lightbox plugin allows you to embed videos on a page using lightbox overlay display similar to the one shown below. This plugin can be used to display images, flash, YouTube, Vimeo, iFrame etc in a lightbox overlay. The embedded videos can be viewed on iPhone and iPad too. The plugin uses the PrettyPhoto JQuery Library.Click on the image to see how the video pops over in a lightbox overlay.[video_lightbox_youtube video_id=G7z74BvLWUg width=640 height=480 anchor=http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/wp-video-lightbox-demo.png]Little Background Previously I was using another plugin to display my Vimeo videos in a lightbox overlay but recently Vimeo changed their video embed code to use HTML5 in an effort to make the videos playable in iPhone and iPad. Unfortunately, the other plugin wasn't working with this change and I was getting the following error on all my embedded Vimeo videos:Sorry, this video does not existTo get around the problem I created this plugin and tweaked the prettyPhoto JQuery library so it works with the new Vimeo video embed code. When you use this plugin to embed video it will play your YouTube or Vimeo videos in iPhone and iPad! InstallationUnzip and Upload the folder 'wp-video-lightbox' to the '/wp-content/plugins/' directory. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu ...
Sep 22, 20096

Spice up your WordPress Site with JQuery

Categories: JQuery
Spice up your WordPress Site with JQuery
Designing your site with a slick, stylish look, along with some cool Ajax-y features definitely impresses the visitors. They'll come to your site more, the traffic goes up and the revenue grows. Yes, it does require a lot of work involving CSS/JavaScript and HTML, but that's why JQuery is here for!This lightweight JavaScript framework and the plugins built with it for implementing numerous front-end features, have made the lives of web developers and designers a lot easier. This article is a round up of some really cool JQuery plugins available on the Internet for download and use. Don't forget to read the JQuery introduction article if you are new to this. How to add JQuery library to WordPress Theme Wordpress already comes with the latest jQuery library so all you have to do is include it in your theme if you want to make use of it. Once you include the JQuery library you can start using all the cool JQuery functions. There are two ways you can include the JQuery library in your theme:Option A: Insert the following  in your "header.php" file of the WordPress theme: <?php wp_enqueue_script('jquery'); ?> Option B: Add the following bit of code in the "functions.php" file of your ...

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