35 Great jQuery Animation Tutorials

35 Great jQuery Animation Tutorials:

Since its arrival, jQuery has caught the web by storm and now it is one of the preferred solutions in creating fancy animations. This raging popularity of the JavaScript library is due in part to its being lightweight, being easy to maintain and widespread browser support. Right now, you can see jQuery effects applied in a number of ways that effectively demonstrate its power to define and control small-scale web animations.
Until newer technologies like CSS3 becomes matured with adequate support from major browsers and all, jQuery will continue to stay. We will still be seeing a lot of its application in navigation interfaces, sliders and other image display mechanisms, in enhancing web typography and more going forward.
So, to help you work your way around jQuery, we are sharing with you some of the jQuery animation tutorials available in the web now. As you will find out, these tutorials will help you acquire the skills in making different animation effects that you will need in designing interesting websites. Let us go and explore them with the view of improving our craft after every tutorial. Enjoy!

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Animated Text and Icon Menu with jQuery

This tutorial will teach you how to create a slick menu with a nice animation feature on hover. The idea is to make some elements slide out, change and animate the background color of the item and then slide the elements back in with a different color.

Merging Image Boxes with jQuery

This tutorials will show you a nice effect for images with jQuery. The idea is to have a set of rotated thumbnails that, once clicked, animate to form the selected image. You can navigate through the images with previous and next buttons and when the big image gets clicked it will scatter.

jQuery hover fade method (modified)

This technique uses jQuery to modify the markup and to animate to fade transition. On the demo, you can see that the button switches on and the changes color on hover.

Animated Form Switching with jQuery

In this tutorial you will create a simple animated form switch with three very common forms. The idea is not to leave the page when the user goes to another form but instead make the new form appear within the same container, expanding or contracting to the dimensions of the new form.

Creative Button Animations with Sprites and jQuery

Here, you will create buttons that change its color on hover.

Building an Animated Cartoon Robot with jQuery

This tutorial will teach you how to make a cool animated cartoon that runs once it loads up.

Animate a hover with jQuery

Animate an image while hovering it and show the visitors information while doing that. Sounds simple huh? Well it is, but the effect is nice and can be nice for a portfolio.

How to Load In and Animate Content with jQuery

In this tutorial you will be taking your average everyday website and enhancing it with jQuery. You will be adding ajax functionality so that the content loads into the relevant container instead of the user having to navigate to another page. Also, you will also be integrating some awesome animation effects.

Automatic Infinite Carousel

In this tutorial you will learn how to make a carousel that you can scroll infinitely by repeating the images

Animated Content Me.nu with jQuery

Here, you will create a slick animated content menu with jQuery for a restaurant theme. The menu items will be animated and when clicked, a content area with more information will appear. Also, the background image is going to change according to which menu item was clicked.

Beautiful Background Image Navigation with jQuery

In this tutorial you are going to create a beautiful navigation that has a background image slide effect. The main idea is to have three list items that contain the same background image but with a different position. The background image for each item will be animated to slide into place in.

Dream Night Animation with jQuery

This is an animation in which colored bubbles appear on random positions, grow in size and then fade out. This effect really looks so cool.

Puffing Smoke Effect in jQuery

A tutorial on how to make a puffing smoke effect on the header of Gaya Design blog.

Animate Curtains Opening with jQuery

Tutorial on how to slide sideways and reveal additional add with jQuey article.

Create a Funky Parallax Background Effect using jQuery

In this tutorial, we’ll be using JQuery to take a horizontally scrolling website and add a parallax scrolling background effect reminiscent of old-school 2D platform games like Sonic the Hedgehog.

Creating an Animated 404 Page

This tutorials will teach you how to create an animated 404 page, which you can easily customize and improve.

Create a unique Gallery by using z-index and jQuery

In this tutorial you will create a unique picture gallery utilizing the CSS property z-index. In the example it has a pile of pictures, on the next action it puts the first picture on the last position and on the previous action it gets the picture from the last position to the first. All done just by altering the z-index, of course with a animation to underline the imagination to have a pile of pictures.

jQuery Parallax Tutorial – Animated Header Background

This tutorial will explain in detail how to create your own parallax background effect using jQuery to manage the animation aspects of the banner which you could use for your header background.

How to Make an Impressive Animated Landscape Header with jQuery

This tutorial will teach you how to create a landscape header that appears to reveal additional content.

Creating a Slick Auto-Playing Featured Content Slider

This tutorial will teach you how to a make a slider in the sidebar to show Script & Style links, Featured Posts, and Popular Posts.

Create a Realistic Hover Effect With jQuery

This tutorial will show you how to make a rising hover effect to a set of icon using jQuery’s animate effect.  The icons used here have reflections and others with shadows.

How To Create a Cool Animated Menu with jQuery

In this tutorial you’ll be building a cool navigation list complete with a sliding hover effect. Learn how to build the concept in Photoshop, lay out the basic HTML elements, style everything up in CSS then tie it all together with a few lines of jQuery to create a semantic, accessible and degradable menu design.

Create a Cool Animated Navigation with CSS and jQuery

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. This tutorial will show you how to build a really cool animated navigation menu using just CSS and jQuery.

Animate Image Filling Up Using jQuery

In this tutorial, you have images that will slide up/down above the layer and create a unique fill effect (aka paint dripping).

Crafting an Animated Postcard With jQuery

In this tutorial you will learn the basics of setting up a continuous animation which can be applied pretty much anywhere. Take a peek to see an outline of what you’ll be learning today.

Animated Menus Using jQuery

Build An Incredible Login Form With jQuery

One struggle that still remains today in web design is displaying all of the redundant information on every page. For example, a login form. What if there was a way to easily make the content accessible on every page, but keep it hidden until needed? Well you can, by making a top panel that when clicked, will reveal its self and its content. But we need to make this look nice, so we’ll also animate it.

Moving Boxes

Here, you will learn how to make a slider with panels that zooms in and out slightly.

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

Create navigation links that animate on hover with jQuery.

Learning jQuery: Revealing Photo Slider

This tutorial will teach you how to make a thumbnail photo gallery, where clicking a button would reveal the entire photo and more information about that photo.

Using jQuery for Background Image Animations

Apply beautiful background animations on buttons.

Glimmer Freestyle Animations

With Glimmer, easily create interactive experiences like rotating photo-galleries/mastheads, drop-down navigation, hover effects, or custom animations like what you see here.

How to Create Animated Photo Gallery using jQuery (Slider Kit)

Tutorial on how to make a gallery with some fancy animated effect.

Shuffle Letters Effect using jQuery

As the name suggests, this tutorial will help you make shuffle letters with amazing effects.

Create a Stunning Sliding Door Effect with jQuery

This tutorial will teach you how to make an awesome four corners sliding door effect on images.

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Mastering CSS Gradients in Under an Hour

Mastering CSS Gradients in Under an Hour:
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Have you refrained from using CSS Gradients because either you didn’t understand them, or thought the browser support for them wasn’t good enough to consider using them in your projects?
Well, it’s time to kill those 1px wide images, my friend.
If you’re just curious about how to use CSS Gradients, this is the place for you. We’ll start with the basics of syntax to very advanced effects with lots of tips and examples.
Remember, learning about CSS gradients is really important since browsers are getting better and better every day. Mobile browsers have good CSS3 support by default.
So, let’s rock!

Basic syntax

The first thing you must be aware of is browser support. For now you must keep the browser vendor prefixes AND use a custom filter for IE. So, we have at least 5 possible prefixes, each one with its own subtle variation and even multiple differences between browsers versions: Opera (presto), Firefox (gecko), Safari / Chrome (Webkit), Konqueror (KHTML), and IE (Trident), which has 2 different ways to do it (IE… go figure!).
We’ll focus on “standard” browser rules here (e.g. we won’t talk about old from() to() rules), and we’ll have a chapter on IE compatibility at the end (since its filters don’t allow all the effects we’ll see here).
This is the basic syntax:

#wd {
background: vendor-type-gradient( start / position , shape size, color 1, color2 [position] [, other colors / positions] );
/*** real example **/

background: -moz-linear-gradient( top left, red, #c10000, #ae0000 );

background: -webkit-linear-gradient( top left, red, #c10000, #ae0000 );

background: -o-linear-gradient( top left, red, #c10000, #ae0000 );

background: -khtml-linear-gradient( top left, red, #c10000, #ae0000 );

background: -ms-linear-gradient( top left, red, #c10000, #ae0000 );

background: linear-gradient( top left, red, #c10000, #ae0000 );
}

This CSS will get this result:

So, here are the items explained:

• Background: Just like you set background image or colors you’ll set gradients as a separate item
• vendor -: We can use “-o” for opera, “-moz” for Firefox, “-webkit” for safari and chrome, “-khtml” for Konqueror and “-ms” for IE
• type: Here we can use “linear” or “radial”
• start / position: This is a X/Y coordinate which tells the browser either the direction (top means that it’ll be top to bottom, and left that it’ll be left to right) or the exact start point (like 600px 300px will invert the example above because the start point will be the bottom right)
• shape: If you use radial gradient you can set it as “circle” or leave it blank so the gradient will be ellipsis-shaped
• size: If you are using radial gradients you can set where the gradient extends to. You can use: closest-side,  closest-corner, farthest-side, farthest-corner, contain, cover to set the gradient position.
• Color1: This is the first color. It’ll be the color in the start point you set above
• Colors 2,3,4..: You can add as many colors as you want and they’ll be evenly distributed in the element’s background unless you declare a position.
• Position (for colors): If you don’t want an even distribution you can add your own rules for positioning colors.

Here is an example making use of color positions:

#wd {

background: -moz-linear-gradient( top left, white, black 25% );

background: -webkit-linear-gradient( top left, white, black 25% );

background: -o-linear-gradient( top left, white, black 25% );

background: -khtml-linear-gradient( top left, white, black 25% );

background: -ms-linear-gradient( top left, white, black 25% );

background: linear-gradient( top left, white, black 25% );
}

You can see the result and an outlined area, about those 25% / 75% portions so you can have a better idea on how the browser calculates those values:

Multiple gradients

Let’s dig a little deeper and see more cool stuff you can do. You can start doing advanced stuff and playing with shape combinations to create new effects.
The syntax is pretty simple, all you’ve got to do is separate multiple declarations with commas. Notice that the “z-index” of the gradients will be reversed and the first item will be at the top.
If you set the color to transparent, you can use a background color if you want. Otherwise the color of the top element will hide all the others.
Ok, let’s play with some code now:

#wd {

background:

-moz-linear-gradient( top left, white, transparent 25% ),

-moz-linear-gradient( bottom right, white, transparent 25% ),

-moz-radial-gradient( 25% 50%, circle, white, white 20%, transparent 25% ),

-moz-radial-gradient( 75% 50%, contain, white, white 20%, transparent 25% )

black;

background:

-webkit-linear-gradient( top left, white, transparent 25% ),

-webkit-linear-gradient( bottom right, white, transparent 25% ),

-webkit-radial-gradient( 25% 50%, circle, white, white 20%, transparent 25% ),

-webkit-radial-gradient( 75% 50%, contain, white, white 20%, transparent 25% )

black;

background:

-o-linear-gradient( top left, white, transparent 25% ),

-o-linear-gradient( bottom right, white, transparent 25% ),

-o-radial-gradient( 25% 50%, circle, white, white 20%, transparent 25% ),

-o-radial-gradient( 75% 50%, contain, white, white 20%, transparent 25% )

black;

background:

-khtml-linear-gradient( top left, white, transparent 25% ),

-khtml-linear-gradient( bottom right, white, transparent 25% ),

-khtml-radial-gradient( 25% 50%, circle, white, white 20%, transparent 25% ),

-khtml-radial-gradient( 75% 50%, contain, white, white 20%, transparent 25% )

black;

background:

-ms-linear-gradient( top left, white, transparent 25% ),

-ms-linear-gradient( bottom right, white, transparent 25% ),

-ms-radial-gradient( 25% 50%, circle, white, white 20%, transparent 25% ),

-ms-radial-gradient( 75% 50%, contain, white, white 20%, transparent 25% )

black;

background:

linear-gradient( top left, white, transparent 25% ),

linear-gradient( bottom right, white, transparent 25% ),

radial-gradient( 25% 50%, circle, white, white 20%, transparent 25% ),

radial-gradient( 75% 50%, contain, white, white 20%, transparent 25% )

black;            }

And this will be your final result:

Cool Effects

As you can see, gradients combinations can lead to awesome results. Here we’ll see a few practical (ok, some of them quite experimental) examples that you can use and even make them better.

Subtle lighting effect

This effect is pretty easy to use, especially for featured images. It gives a subtle elliptical shadow for your elements without additional markup, you can just include it in your images. Oh, and it works pretty well for hovers also.
Here is the CSS to achieve the effect (and also correct positioning for elements):

img {

margin: 0 -60px;

padding: 25px 60px 40px;

background: -moz-radial-gradient( center center, contain, black, white 90% );

background: -webkit-radial-gradient( center center, contain, black, white 90% );

background: -o-radial-gradient( center center, contain, black, white 90% );

background: -khtml-radial-gradient( center center, contain, black, white 90% );

background: -ms-radial-gradient( center center, contain, black, white 90% );

background: radial-gradient( center center, contain, black, white 90% );
}

And this is the effect applied to one o four images:

CSS Background Patterns

There are quite a few highly experimental CSS patterns out there, but there are a few that you can actually use, especially the ones which rely on gradients that end smoothly.
Here is an example on how to apply a subtle background pattern that you can easily integrate in your site:

body {

background:

-moz-radial-gradient( center center, contain, #757575, transparent ),

black;

background:

-webkit-radial-gradient( center center, contain, #757575, transparent ),

black;

background:

-o-radial-gradient( center center, contain, #757575, transparent ),

black;

background:

-khtml-radial-gradient( center center, contain, #757575, transparent ),

black;

background:

-ms-radial-gradient( center center, contain, #757575, transparent ),

black;

background:

radial-gradient( center center, contain, #757575, transparent ),

black;
}

And this will be the rendered result:

It’ll Blow your mind – CSS Painting

If there’s one thing that impressed me since I started with this web stuff is CSS painting. It used to be so hard that you could need several lines of code (like hundreds or thousands) to get the simple ones.
Now with barely 10 lines and a single element you can do simple paintings. This is especially useful if you want to do CSS animations because CSS generated elements are much likely to apply CSS standard animations.
Here is the code I used to do a simple scared face to show to your IE users:

#wd {

position: relative;

width: 450px;

height: 400px;

margin: 20px auto;

background:

-moz-radial-gradient( 25% 30%, contain, black, black 4%, white 5%, white 24%, transparent 25% ),

-moz-radial-gradient( 75% 30%, contain, black, black 4%, white 5%, white 24%, transparent 25% ),

-moz-radial-gradient( 50% 50%, contain, #e19b92, #e19b92 9%, transparent 10% ),

-moz-radial-gradient( 50% 75%, contain, black, black 24%, transparent 25% )

#f3c2bb;

background:

-webkit-radial-gradient( 25% 30%, contain, black, black 4%, white 5%, white 24%, transparent 25% ),

-webkit-radial-gradient( 75% 30%, contain, black, black 4%, white 5%, white 24%, transparent 25% ),

-webkit-radial-gradient( 50% 50%, contain, #e19b92, #e19b92 9%, transparent 10% ),

-webkit-radial-gradient( 50% 75%, contain, black, black 24%, transparent 25% )

#f3c2bb;

background:

-o-radial-gradient( 25% 30%, contain, black, black 4%, white 5%, white 24%, transparent 25% ),

-o-radial-gradient( 75% 30%, contain, black, black 4%, white 5%, white 24%, transparent 25% ),

-o-radial-gradient( 50% 50%, contain, #e19b92, #e19b92 9%, transparent 10% ),

-o-radial-gradient( 50% 75%, contain, black, black 24%, transparent 25% )

#f3c2bb;

background:

-khtml-radial-gradient( 25% 30%, contain, black, black 4%, white 5%, white 24%, transparent 25% ),

-khtml-radial-gradient( 75% 30%, contain, black, black 4%, white 5%, white 24%, transparent 25% ),

-khtml-radial-gradient( 50% 50%, contain, #e19b92, #e19b92 9%, transparent 10% ),

-khtml-radial-gradient( 50% 75%, contain, black, black 24%, transparent 25% )

#f3c2bb;

background:

-ms-radial-gradient( 25% 30%, contain, black, black 4%, white 5%, white 24%, transparent 25% ),

-ms-radial-gradient( 75% 30%, contain, black, black 4%, white 5%, white 24%, transparent 25% ),

-ms-radial-gradient( 50% 50%, contain, #e19b92, #e19b92 9%, transparent 10% ),

-ms-radial-gradient( 50% 75%, contain, black, black 24%, transparent 25% )

#f3c2bb;

background:

radial-gradient( 25% 30%, contain, black, black 4%, white 5%, white 24%, transparent 25% ),

radial-gradient( 75% 30%, contain, black, black 4%, white 5%, white 24%, transparent 25% ),

radial-gradient( 50% 50%, contain, #e19b92, #e19b92 9%, transparent 10% ),

radial-gradient( 50% 75%, contain, black, black 24%, transparent 25% )

#f3c2bb;

border-radius: 50%;

}

#wd:after {

content: "Are you using IE??";

position: absolute;

top: 225px;

left: 315px;

padding: 5px 10px;

width: 150px;

font-family: "comic Sans MS",arial,verdana; /* I just couldn't help using comics! */

background: white;

border: 2px solid #E19B92;

border-radius: 4px 4px 4px 4px;

}

And this is the rendered result:

Compatibility notes

There are 2 important final notes on this. First is on old Webkit rules (which still in use for many old versions including mobile). They are slightly different than the ones presented here:

#wd {

background-image: -webkit-gradient(type, position, radius, xpos ypos, outer radius, from(startColor), to(endColor) [, color-stop(25%, middleColor)] );

/* example */

background-image: -webkit-gradient(radial, center center, 0, center center, 120, from(red), to(white), color-stop(10%, blue) );
}

And we have also Microsoft filters for IE. They are better explained in this Microsoft’s guide.

So, what do you think about it?

Can you think of new uses for those CSS gradients? Let us know using the comments section!

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