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Monday 24 October 2011

25 jQuery Plugins to help with Responsive Layouts

Response.js

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Response JS is a lightweight plugin that gives you the tools for producing performance-optimized, mobile-first responsive websites. It provides easy-to-use action hooks for dynamically swapping code blocks based on screen sizes and semantic methods for progressively serving media via HTML5 data attributes.

Response.jsMarkup Demo

Responsly

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The Responsly plugin is a set of simple responsive widgets written using CSS3 transformations. It is best used with a responsive CSS framework like 1140px or 320plus and currently there are only a slideshow and accordion widget available, but with much more to come soon.

Responsly

Menu to a Dropdown for Small Screens

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The Five Simple Steps website has a responsive design with a neat feature. When the browser window is narrow, the menu in the upper right converts from typical menu links into a dropdown menu. Using jQuery, this tutorial will show you how to recreate it.

Menu to a DropdownDemo

Responsive Menu

Not unlike the technique used above, this simple pluginconverts menus into a select element for mobile devices and low browser widths.

Responsive MenuDemo

Doubletake

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Intended to be a proof of concept, Doubletake is a plugin that dynamically updates the src of your images based on the browser width. You start with a small, mobile-friendly image in your HTML. Doubletake will then use a defined set of breakpoints to update image SRCs when necessary.

DoubletakeDemo

FitText

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FitText is a plugin for inflating web type. It makes font-sizes flexible. Use FitText on your fluid or responsive layout to achieve scalable headlines that fill the width of a parent element.

FitText

jFontSize

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jFontSizeDemo

Elastislide

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Elastislide is a responsive jQuery carousel that will adapt its size and its behavior in order to work on any screen size. Inserting the carousel’s structure into a container with a fluid width will also make the carousel fluid.

ElastislideDemo

Blueberry

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Blueberry is an experimental open-source jQuery image slider plugin which has been written specifically to work with fluid/responsive web layouts.

Blueberry

wmuSlider

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wmuSlider

PhotoSwipe

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PhotoSwipe is an HTML/CSS/JavaScript-based image gallery specifically targeting mobile and touch devices. All modern mobile and touch devices, as well as the desktops and laptops, are supported. PhotoSwipe provides your visitors with a familiar and intuitive interface allowing them to interact with images on your mobile website.

PhotoSwipeDemo

FlexSlider

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Flexslider is a lightweight, fully responsive jQuery slider plugin. It has simple, semantic markup, slide and fade animations, and is supported by all major browsers so you won’t have any compatibility issues. Flexslider is built for beginners and pros alike.

FlexSlider

Responsive jQuery Slideshow

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Responsive jQuery SlideshowDemo

Seamless Responsive Photo Grid

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Seamless Responsive Photo GridDemo

Responsive Image Gallery with Thumbnail Carousel

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Using the Elastislide plugin (above), this tecnique will show you how to implement a responsive gallery that adapts to the view-port width. The gallery will has a view switch that allows you to view it with the thumbnail carousel or without. It also supports keyboard navigation.

Responsive Image Gallery with Thumbnail CarouselDemo

rlightbox – A jQuery UI mediabox

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rlightbox is a jQuery UI mediabox that can display many types of content such as images, YouTube and Vimeo videos. It has many unique features like Panorama and Live Re-size and like other jQuery UI widgets, it is ThemeRoller ready.

rlightbox – A jQuery UI mediabox

AdaptiveMedia

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AdaptiveMediaDemo

Dynamic Carousel

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Dynamic Carousel is a carousel plugin built for responsive layouts.

Dynamic CarouselDemo

FitVids.JS

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FitVids.JS is a lightweight, easy-to-use jQuery plugin for responsive width video embeds. It automates the Intrinsic Ratio Method by Thierry Koblentz to achieve fluid width videos in your responsive web design.

FitVids.JSResponsyGs

jQuery Masonry

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Masonry is a dynamic grid layout plugin for jQuery. Whereas floating arranges elements horizontally then vertically, Masonry arranges elements vertically, positioning each element in the next open spot in the grid. The result minimizes vertical gaps between elements of varying height, just like a mason fitting stones in a wall.

jQuery Masonry

Isotope

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Isotope is a jQuery plugin for intelligent, dynamic layouts that can’t be achieved with CSS alone. You can hide and reveal item elements easily with jQuery selectors and re-order item elements with sorting.

Isotope’s animation engine takes advantage of the best browser features when available — CSS transitions and transforms, GPU acceleration — but will also fall back to JavaScript animation for lesser browsers.

Isotope

The Heads-Up Grid

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Built with HTML, CSS & JavaScript, The Heads-Up Grid is a responsive overlay grid for in-browser website development. It has been created to make it relatively easy to adapt to the needs of responsive web design. You can quickly and easily define as many different grids as you need by way of basic JavaScript conditional statements.

The Heads-Up Grid

Adaptive Images in HTML

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OK, this is not a jQuery plugin, but still its worthy of a mention. Adaptive Images, intended to be used with responsive and fluid layout techniques, is a solution that will automatically create, cache, and deliver device-appropriate (it detects the resolution of the visitors screen) of your website’s content images. No need to change your mark-up, it manages its own image re-sizing, and will work on any CMS or even on flat HTML pages.

Adaptive Images in HTML

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