Best jQuery Menus Plugins & Tutorials with Demo

    jQuery Top Black Menu Bar of Google Search with Demo

    jQuery Top Black Menu Bar of Google Search with Demo

    Google has come up with a new look with the launch of Google Plus and one of the prominent changes we can observe is the black menu bar found on the top of Google Search Page and every other Google product like Google Plus(obviously),  Google reader, etc. Almost every Google product by now has been integrated with the top black menu bar.

    I thought it would be a great idea to make a tutorial on how to create this black menu bar using simple jQuery and CSS.

    Some of the features we are going to cover in this tutorial of making Top Menu Bar found in Google products is :

    • Creating the red ribbon like effect for the current page
    • creating the drop down menu when more button is clicked
    • keeping the bar fixed even when the rest of the page is scrolled
    • Styling the elements of the menu exactly to those found on Google

    Interactive menu with CSS3 & jQuery

    Interactive menu with CSS3 & jQuery Demo

    In this article you’ll learn how to create an interactive menu using CSS3 goodness and jQuery’s power.The idea behind this example was to have some nicely arranged blocks and once you click on one of them, the block will start showing its hidden content starting at its current position.

    Besides being a menu, this example can also serve as a perfect single page website. For example, just think that a block can be named “Contact” and could contain a nice contact form.

    jQuery Menu w/ Drop Down Tutorial with Demo

    jQuery Menu w/ Drop Down Tutorial with Demo

    In today’s tutorial is about a menu which has all the decent and stylish animated functionality, what you may be looking for. I’ll not go into details of HTML and CSS, I’m assuming you know about that or you can copy the HTML and CSS from below.

    How to Create a Walking Navigation in jQuery with Demo

    How to Create a Walking Navigation in jQuery with Demo

    On a single page website with fixed position navigation, it will be nice to tell user on what section they are reading at. In this tutorial I am going to share how to create a walking navigation, on the other words, auto focus navigation based on user scrolling, by taking advantage of both jQuery and CSS animation.

    BoxyMenu : jQuery Box Navigation Menu with Demo

    BoxyMenu : jQuery Box Navigation Menu with Demo

    BoxyMenu is a simple and fast navigation menu plugin that renders smoothly in all major web browsers. It is simple to customize and can be plugged in to any website or web application.If you are thinking about giving a facelift to your website, experimenting with navigation menu is perhaps the most effective way to do that.

    A well-designed navigation menu would not only make your website simple and usable but it would also instantly change overall layout of the website. There are a lot of experiments that you can do with your website navigation – colors, orientation, icons, fonts, style (vertical, sliding, collapsible, drop down etc.) etc. All of these menu styles are effective for a particular purpose.

    Auto Moving Submenu Using jQuery with Demo

    Auto Moving Submenu Using jQuery with Demo

    Today we’re going to create an automatic moving submenu based on selected its parent. Each submenu is horizontally stacked, sequentially in the order of their parent menu. So when user moving their cursor to the one of parent menu its submenu will appeared by moving its horizontal position.

    Chico UI – jQuery User Interface Components

    Chico UI – jQuery User Interface Components

    Chico UI is an open source and free set of user interface components to ease developing with jQuery.

    The components include auto-complete, blink, calendar, carousel, countdown, date-picker, dropdown, expando, form and more.

    There is a CSS layout framework named Chico Mesh for accomplishing any type of web layouts and grids.

    Colorful css and jQuery menu

    Colorful css and jQuery menu

    I would like to share with you a nice and colorful jQuery and css menu.The Idea is to create a normal ul li menu and apply a top border to the anchor tags with colors that will match with the element background color when it is hovered.
    The jQuery will create a span element and insert it into the HTML structure, this is the colourful background that will be moving across the menu.

    jQuery Growing Menu

    jQuery Growing Menu

    Today We are gonna make a horizontal expanding menu using jQuery and css.

    jQuery Radmenu Plugin

    jQuery Radmenu Plugin

    A Radial Menu, also known as a Pie Menu, is a circular contextual menu. The interface is a pretty cool and intuitive one and is now easy to implement on your site!

    Radial menu’s are powerful primarily because the location of the menu items can be easily memorized by novice users, as well as experienced ones. The interface effectively engages users in a way in which they are capable of placing directional and gestural associations with particular actions; think muscle memory.

    This plugin was created to harness the power of the radial menu and yet provide enough flexibility to the developer to express their creativity in its application. The radmenu plugin essentially builds items around the circumference of a circle.