85 Ultimate jQuery Navigation and Menu Plugins for Web Developers

jQuery Navigation and Plugins are the most important tools in the web designing and website navigation. These tools helps you to make your website look better, it also helps you to keep you webpage neat, usable and creative. These free plugins bring a new look to your webpage and you can perform many wanted tasks and this also makes your website look fantastic.

Think of your website/webpage extremely user-friendly and usable, this enhances user’s preference of your over other websites over the web. These different jQuery navigation and plugins that are completely free improve your navigation in the website. The user can navigate to their desired page in just single click and this thus impresses the user and leaves a positive impact on him. This also makes him visit your website over and over to fetch all the requirements he has that are available on your website.

These free plugins available can provide you with drop down lists to slide out menus. Think of which plugins might improve your website view and go for it. We are completely assured you will add a new taste to your website with just few clicks. Try something new and experience the change. Look for all you want because we have 85 free options for you, choose the best pick what you need.

These 85 Ultimate jQuery Navigation and Menu Plugins for Web Developers have been posted for your use. Hope they might come in handy and help you with your Web-Development.

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1). mb.verticalSlider

jquery.mb.verticalSlider let you show long list of elements managing pagination, it can work with elements already in the DOM of your page or loading them via ajax when needed. And it works with mouse wheel of course.

Demo    :    Doc    :    Download

2). jQuery Tabbed Interface / Tabbed Structure Menu Tutorial

Nowadays, a lot of websites are using tab based content as a way to save spaces in a webpage. I have seen a lot of wordpress websites using a tabbed interface for its category, posts, comments and random posts content. It’s a good “space-saver” and if used it correctly, it can boost your website usability as well. Right, first of all, we need to have the ideas and the design structure for this tabbed interface.

Demo    :     Download

3). Drop Menu

With this script you can make nice and interactive drop down menus. The advantage of this script is that it not only gives you the ability to make list drop down menu. You can also use a div as drop down element. This way you can create big drop down menus like under the buttons products and tutorials in the live preview. Or you can create a login panel in your drop down like I did in the live preview.

Features:–

• Create dropdown menus
• Horizontal and vertical menus
• Supports div dropdown
• 3 examples dropdown menus included
• 3 dropdown animations
• use different anim for open and close
• Graceful degradation
• Customizable through css
• Works in all browsers
• Custom animations
• Show on top of flash content

Demo    :    Download

4). Fly Slideshow

Fly SlideShow is a jQuery Slideshow script to present images as an automatic slideshow with nice “FLY” effect. Images fly from left to right with fade.

Features:–

• direct navigation (you can jump to any slide by clicking dots at top-right corner)
• prev/next controls
• image decriptions (it gets them from alt tag)
• 0nly 5kb size

 

Demo    :    Download

5). Animated Menus Using jQuery

I recently stumbled upon Dragon Interactive (dragoninteractive.com).  It’s a pretty well designed site.  However, the pièce de résistance is their rather cool animated menu.  Now…  had this been designed in Adobe Flash, I wouldn’t had paid much attention.  A closer inspection revealed that the menu is plain XHTML, CSS and Javascript.  Today, I’m going to show you how to create an animated menu (very similar to Dragon Interactive’s menu).

Demo    :    Download

6). OS X Finder-like ColumnView

jQuery extension to mimic OSX Finder column view (loading via ajax).

This is a jQuery (1.4 as of writing) extension for mimicing the OSX Finder column behavior.

Demo    :    Download

7). Blast Slider – jQuery Photo Slider

Blast Slider is a jQuery plugin to create sliders, carousels, rotators with crazy animation effect – slide explodes into particles and then collapses to a new slide!

Demo    :    Download

8). Create a Cool Animated Navigation with CSS and jQuery (Tutorial + Download)

Animation and visual feedback are great ways to assist a user in navigating and interacting with a website. While traditionally Adobe’s Flash was the goto for anything animated, these days with the magic of javascript we can avoid Flash altogether. Today we’re going to build a really cool animated navigation menu using just CSS and jQuery.

Demo    :    Get the code

9). Photo Rotator jQuery Plugin

Photo Rotator JQuery plugin is a easy to use JQuery plugin for web developer to build Javascript gallery on their web application. The plugin can be driven by xml. Easy setup and only minimum programming knowledge is needed. Best to showcase your photography.

Highlighted features:

• Driven by xml or arrays
• 3D Transition Effects (support in Safari)
• Easy to setup
• Slide show controls
• Easy customization
• Compatible with IOS mobile safari

Demo    :    Visit Site

10). jQuery ListNav Plugin

This jQuery plugin supplies an easy way to unobtrusively add a letter-based navigation widget to any UL or OL list. An easily stylable (via CSS) nav bar appears above the list, showing the user the letters A-through-Z. Clicking one of the letters filters the list to show only the items in the list that start with that letter. Hovering over a letter (optionally) shows a count above the letter, indicating how many items will be displayed if that letter is clicked. Other options give you control over the basic functionality.

Demo    :    Download

11). infiniScroll

Demo    :    Source    :    jQuery plugin page    :    GoogleGroup

12). jQuery Gestures

The jQuery Gestures project is a plugin for the jQuery JavaScript Framework, which adds mouse gesture support to a page or zone on a web page.

Demo    :    Source

13).  jqDock menu

Transform a set of images into a Mac-like Dock menu, horizontal or vertical, with icons that expand on rollover, and optional labels.

Demo    :    Download

14). jQuery Menu Selector

This plugin makes menu items active by location path.

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15). FloatMenu

FloatMenu is a simple menu with customizable movement directions. It requires no external libraries and works with all major browsers.

Files included:

• JS and CSS files
• Documentation
• Preview page
• 14 icons

Demo    :    Download

16). jQuery Stepy – A Wizard Plugin

Demo    :    Source 

17).  Sliding Jquery Menu

Hi there welcome to another tutorial, in this tutorial il show you how to create a sliding menu button using jquery. You can see the effect in action over on the PSDtuts webpage in the top right hand corner.

Demo    :    Download

18). jQuery Pageswitch Plugin

This lightweight and easy to use jQuery Pageswitch Plugin allows you to easily add site-animations to your navigation.

Visit Site  :  Download Zip  :  Download Js  :  jQuery Project  :  Google Code Project

19). CSS Sprites 2 – It’s JavaScript Time

A sense of movement is often the differentiator between Flash-heavy web sites and standards-based sites. Flash interfaces have always seemed more alive—responding to the user’s interactions in a dynamic way that standards-based web sites haven’t been able to replicate.

Demo    :    Visit Site

20). jQuery Slidy – A Transition Plugin

Demo    :    Visit Site

21).  CSS Mac Dock Menu

If you are a big Mac fan, you will love this CSS dock menu. It is using Jquery library and Fisheye component from Interface and some of my icons. It comes with two dock position: top and bottom. This CSS dock menu is perfect to add on to my iTheme. Here I will show you how to implement it to your web page.

Demo    :    Download

22). Slide Down Menu

we will create a unique sliding box navigation. The idea is to make a box with the menu item slide out, while a thumbnail pops up. We will also include a submenu box with further links for some of the menu items. The submenu will slide to the left or to the right depending on which menu item we are hovering.

Demo    :    Download

23).  Kwicks for jQuery

Welcome to the Kwicks for jQuery home page. Kwicks for jQuery started off as a port of the insatiably attractive Mootools effect (of the same name), but has evolved into a highly customizable and versatile widget. Please check out the examples to see it in action. Thank you for visiting!

View 7 examples   :    Documentation    :    Download

24). Apple style Navigation with CSS3 JQuery

Apple is known for very clean design and if you have been to their website in the last few years you’ve seen their primary navigation. It’s a staple of the apple website and today I wanted to take a crack at recreating the Apple navigation using CSS3 techniques.

Demo    :    Visit Site

25). Smart Cart 2 – jQuery Sopping Crt Pug-in

Smart Cart 2 is a flexible and feature rich jQuery plug-in for shopping cart. It makes the add-to-cart section of online shopping much easy and user friendly. It is compact in design, very easy to implement and only minimal HTML required.

Latest Version: 2.0
Previous Version: 0.95

Demo 2.0    :    Demo 0.95    :    Free Download 2.0    :    Free Download 0.95

26). Learning jQuery: Fading Menu – Replacing Content

The more I learn about jQuery, the more natural it feels. Probably because of how closely tied to CSS it is. From a design perspective, the syntax for jQuery is:

Demo    :    Download

27). Flyout Ribbon using jQuery and CSS3

Recently, I created a Flyout Ribbon using jQuery and CSS3 that I would like to share with you today.  My original idea for this came from the desire have a web administration panel for every page on my site, so i could edit content, change menu’s, etc directly on the page I was working on.  I really wanted something unobtrusive to the flow of my page and something with a bit of sex appeal, so naturally I turned to jQuery and CSS3.  I also wanted something that I show and hide easily.

Demo    :    Free Download

28). How to Make a Smooth Animated Menu with jQuery

The menu has such a smooth animation because of a thing called “easing”. Adobe’s definition in the Flash Developer Center is a little more complete:

Demo    :    Download

29). Easyrpc

This is a synchronous and an asynchronous library to communicate with a server application with almost zero configuration

Source    :    Download    :    Visit Site

30). Create Vimeo-like top navigation

The base for this tutorial is simple CSS drop down menu based on unordered list. The structure is visually described in the image below:

Demo    :    Download

31). TN34 Facets

Features:–

•     Clean & Valid Markup
•     Events
•     (before open, after open, before close, after close)
•     Debugger

 

Demo1  :  Demo2  :  Demo3  :  Demo4  :  Free Download v1.1 and v1.2

32). jQuery (mb)Menu 2.3

This is a powerful jQuery component to build easily a multilevel tree menu or a contextual menu (right click) in an intuitive way!

Demo   :   Download

33). Keyboard Links

I’ve been knocking around the idea of this plugin for a while, its not revolutionary or anything, but it was a fun little project to work on, so when I got a few hours spare I decided to have a look into it.

Demo    :    Free Download

34). Context Menu Class

ContextMenu.js is a very easy to use utility that lets you add custom right click menus to any HTML element on your website!

Features:

• The menu will never overflow the viewport
• Allows multiple elements to use the same menu
• Adding/Removing items
• Disabling/Enabling items
• Allows showing small icons to the left of each item

Demo    :    Download

35). JAWS: News Ticker and Mini Accordion

This widget-esq script is at once both a news ticker and a mini accordion. It takes a config file of data (headlines, image SRCs, URLs etc) and paginates your headlines into folds. It will optionally auto-rotate through these folds, though you can navigate between them with the numeric tabs at the top right. If an item has ‘more info’ data set in the config, then clicking the headline will reveal that data in an accordion fashion. See below for an example.

Demo    :    Free Download

36). Subway Map Visualization jQuery Plugin

I have always been fascinated by the visual clarity of the London Underground map. Given the number of cities that have adopted this mapping approach for their own subway systems, clearly this is a popular opinion. At a conference some years back, I saw a poster for the Yahoo! Developer Services. They had taken the concept of a subway map and applied it to create a YDN Metro Map.

Demo    :    Free Download 5.9KB

37). Coda Slider   ( all version avlaible )

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38). Sticky Section Headers

Makes headers for sections in lists sticky. Known from the iPhone OS tables views.

Demo    :    Free Download

39). Headerlinks

I created a jQuery plugin for practice and because I thought it would be a fairly good idea. Headerlinks dynamically and automatically (and quickly) creates an organized table-of-contents list anywhere you want on the page in any style.The headerlinks plugin (if you are using JS) is what is making the nice table-of-contents block at the top of this page. I have no doubt that it is the greatest thing ever made.

Demo    :    Download

40). jQuery idTabs

idTabs is a plugin for jQuery. It makes adding tabs into a website super simple. But it can also open the door to endless possiblities.

Demo    :    Download

41). Sliding Tabs – jQuery Plugin

Sliding Tabs is a jQuery plugin for creating horizontal and/or vertical animated tabs for your website. You can have multiple instances of the tabs on a single page and customize them in any way with CSS . The plugin comes with many customization options, making it very flexible and easy to customize to your needs.

Demo    :    Download

42). WZSplitter

All WZ widgets act as jQuery Plugins. They work on the principle similar to ‘Early Designing and Late Binding’. The content inside the widgets can be rendered using HTML & text, so they are SEO-Friendly. Please follow the steps below to see how the splitter works.

Demo1  :  Demo2  :  Demo3  :  Visit Site

43). Create a Slick Tabbed Content Area using CSS & jQuery

One of the biggest challenge to web designers is finding ways to place a lot of information on a page without losing usability. Tabbed content is a great way to handle this issue and has been widely used on blogs recently. Today we’re going to build a simple little tabbed information box in HTML, then make it function using some simple Javascript, and then finally we’ll achieve the same thing using the jQuery library.

Demo  :  Visit Site

44). Autobrowse Endless Scroller

In a recent web project, I needed to build an automatic pagination for end-users, which automatically fetches more content when the user scrolls the page. Examples of this are the Facebook log and the shoe browsing on http://www.mirapodo.de/herrenschuhe/ (not affiliated with us). When the user gets to the end of the page, it fetches more content. This way, you don’t have to load more than neccesary on the first page load, and the user benefits, since she doesn’t have to click numbers in a pagination widget. The result is the jquery.esn.autobrowse.js jQuery plugin which does that for any page.

Demo  :  Download

45). LavaLamp for jQuery lovers!

Extremely light weighted Lavalamp menu packaged as a plugin for the amazing jQuery javascript library.

Demo  :  Download

46). Panoscoper

The Panoscoper plugin is made to take any object (including embedded video objects) and wrap them as though they were 360° virtual environments. It has extensive options and can be customized to suit most applications, but is still being heavily developed.

Source  :  Download

47). Mega Menu Complete Set

This Mega Drop Down Menu Complete Set is perfect for creating unique menus by using one of the 10+ jQuery effects and one of the 13 color variants.

Based on a custom grid, this menu allows you to organize your content into columns (from 1 up to 12) with a lot of typography examples such as headings, lists, images styling, tables, form elements, etc.

Demo  :  Download

48). jCrumb

jCrumb is a JQuery plugin for instantly adding breadcrumbs to any webpage without the need to worry about sitemaps, or server side languages. Just add the plugin to every page you want breadcrumbs on initialize and your done. Can be also be styled with JQuery UI.

Demo  :  Download  :  Source    :    Visit Plugin Page

49). Using jQuery for Background Image Animations

Five different ways, how to create background image animations using jquery – very live effect.

Demo

50). Facebook Menu System

This menu it’s based on the same idea used on facebook web site. The menu system work only with the UL html tag, no other tags are used, you have only to create a simple menu like this:

Download

51). How To Create A ‘Mootools Homepage’ Inspired Navigation Effect Using jQuery

As you know there are a host of competing javascript libraries around these days. Though I prefer jQuery, I’ve always liked the way the menu on MooTools worked. So in this tutorial we’ll recreate that same effect … but we’ll do it in jQuery!

Demo  :  Download

52). jxSlider

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53). Menumatic Mootools

MenuMatic is a MooTools 1.2 class that takes a sematic ordered or unordered list of links and turns it into a dynamic drop down menu system. For users without javascript, it falls back on a CSS menu system based on Matthew Carroll’s keyboard accessible flavor of Suckerfish Dropdowns by Patrick Griffiths and Dan Webb.

Horizontal Menu Demo  :   Vertical Menu Demo   :  Download

54). MobilyBlocks

jQuery plugin (2KB) that allows you to create an unordered list as an animated circle.

Demo  :  Download

55). Super menu pack (10 menus)

Super menu pack is a collection of 10 cool menus, 5 in pure css and 5 using jQuery framework for customize or layout with your websites or applications and projects.

Demo  :  Download

56). Ninja UI

Demo  :  Download

57). jQuery convertion: Garagedoor effect using Javascript

Today I finally found the courage to go and try jQuery. After getting some people say: “You should use jQuery instead of scriptaculous.” I began thinking. What is the reason I choose script.aculo.us again? Must have been something I read in that time.

Demo  :  Download

58). jQuery Scroller

With jQuery Scroller you can create easily smart scrolling text, news ticker, or image animations with few lines of code in jQuery!

Tutorials   :  Download Plugin   :   Visit Site

59). Fisheye Menu

Fisheye Menu is an expanding menu based on the MacOSX doc.

Features:

•     Image swaps between small/large image to avoid the browser just squishing a big image.
•     Image type and size is customizable on the top of the .js file.
•     Object oriented Javascript.

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60). jOrbital

jOrbital is a solution for building circular menus. It’s purpose is to group elements with similar functionality ( like social buttons ) into one hoverable button.

Demo   :  Download

61). Sliding JavaScript Menu Highlight 1kb

This sliding hover effect script is an easy method to add some flavor to your navigation. Using the CSS you can easily customize the navigation to fit your “look and feel”. The markup for the script is very simple as below.

Download   :  Visit Site

62). Image Hover Move

Image Hover Move- simple and practical navigation or featured image jQuery plugin.

Demo   :   Download

63). Mootools Demo Redux

Learning jQuery 1.3 Book CoverI recently finished reading Learning jQuery 1.3 written by Jonathan Chaffer and Karl Swedberg, and while this version is merely a rewrite of an earlier edition, my review will be based on the book as a whole and will not compare differences. If you’re looking looking for that, try this review.

Demo

64). Dynamic Navigation Menu

Dynamic menu with scrolling color glide followed, appropriate for personal entertainment blog and website which requires newfashioned style and personalization.

Demo   :   Download 

65). HoverAccordion

This is yet another accordion script, except you don’t have to click to open one item, you just move your mouse over it.

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66). jQuery One Page Navigation Plugin

When appropriate, I am a fan of the one-page sites. I really like the ones that add smooth scrolling and highlight the navigation depending upon which part of the page you have scrolled to. Here are a few examples: Brizk Design and Crush + Lovely. I finally have a freelance project where a one-page site makes sense, so I needed to write the JavaScript to make the navigation work how I wanted.

Demo   :   Download 

67). Simple Javascript Accordions

The UvumiTools Dropdown Menu is the menu featured on this website. It is a very simple multi-level menu built from an HTML unorderd list, using Mootools Javascript Framework. We needed a simple and lightweight menu that can be easily updated by simply editing a <ul> HTML element.

Demo   :   Download

68). Slider Menu

Slider menu was inspired by the so many flash menus out there that were smooth and nice looking. The menu colors and styles come from CSS for the reason of reusability and simplicities sake. It can be used as the main navigation, or as what I originally made it for a sub page menu system.

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69). Multi-Level Accordion Menu

I have written a jQuery plugin that supports infinite level of unordered lists. It is easy to implement, and has been tested in Internet Explorer 6+, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome.

Demo    :    Visit Site

70). Sliding Pictures Menu

This is a jQuery plugin that makes a beautiful sliding menu with pictures.

Features:

• Set default menu item open.
• Leave active menu item open.
• Remember active menu item using cookies.
• Use debug function.