jQuery Roundup
Welcome to the jQuery Plugin Roundup 22. You can send your plugins in for review through our contact form or @dailyjs.
Captify
Captify by Brian Reavis is a really clean and easy way of adding elegant captions to images. Use some markup like this:
<img src="theimage.jpg" class="captify" rel="caption1" />
And JavaScript:
$(function(){
$('img.captify').captify({
// ...
The same author also has an interesting plugin that can move scrollbars to the left-hand-side of an element: native-looking vertical left scrollbars. It’s a slightly obscure thing to need to do but would drive me crazy if I didn’t have a plugin to do it for me.
filterNav
filterNav (BSD License) by Alexander Blomen helps create layered and filtered navigation systems. What I liked about it in particular was the price range example in the demos — as an alternative to jQuery UI-based sliders for range selection.
The associated markup is based around unordered lists, and you just need to call filterNav() on a suitable element to initialise it. Custom attributes are used to represent values, like data-value and data-min-value.
transliterate
transliterate (MIT License) by Patrick Hall is a transliteration plugin to help convert between writing systems. I expected it to be a fairly trivial plugin for transliterating to ASCII, but it’s actually a more full-blown system that can be extended to support more transliteration schemes.
If you’re not sure what this means, there’s a demo that illustrates transliteration for katakana (which just reminded me that my first name doesn’t work in Japanese very well.)
