35 jQuery Animation Tutorials

Published July 12th, 2010 in Web Development

Creative designers can do some amazing things with jQuery. A wide variety of animation effects are possible, and these 35 tutorials provide excellent learning resources for anyone who is wanting to brush up their skills in this area. You’ll find tutorials for creative animated navigation menus, as well as for other types of animation that use jQuery instead of Flash.

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Animate Image Filling Up Using jQuery

Animate Image Filling Up Using jQuery

Animate Curtains Opening with jQuery

Animate Curtains Opening with jQuery

Building an Animated Cartoon Robot with jQuery

Building an Animated Cartoon Robot with jQuery

jQuery Animations: A 7-Step Program

jQuery Animations: A 7-Step Program

jQuery and CSS Sprite Animation Explained in Under 5 Minutes

jQuery and CSS Sprite Animation Explained in Under 5 Minutes

Fun with jQuery’s Animate () Function

Fun with jQuery's Animate () Function

Animate a Hover with jQuery

Animate a Hover with jQuery

How to Create a “MooTools Homepage” Inspired Navigation Effect Using jQuery

How to Create a

Crafting an Animated Postcard with jQuery

Crafting an Animated Postcard with jQuery

How to Create a Drop-Down Nav Menu with HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery

How to Create a Drop-Down Nav Menu with HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery

Creating a Polaroid Photo Viewer with CSS3 and jQuery

Creating a Polaroid Photo Viewer with CSS3 and jQuery

Quick Tip: Easy Sequential Animations in jQuery

Quick Tip: Easy Sequential Animations in jQuery

Build an Incredible Login Form with jQuery

Build an Incredible Login Form with jQuery

Learning jQuery: Revealing Photo Slider

Learning jQuery: Revealing Photo Slider

Using jQuery for Background Image Animations

Using jQuery for Background Image Animations

Animated Menus Using jQuery

Animated Menus Using jQuery

Create a Cool Animated Navigation with CSS and jQuery

Create a Cool Animated Navigation with CSS and jQuery

Animated Drop Down Menu with jQuery

Animated Drop Down Menu with jQuery

How to Load In and Animate Content with jQuery

How to Load In and Animate Content with jQuery

Puffing Smoke Effect in jQuery

Puffing Smoke Effect in jQuery

How to Make an Impressive Animated Landscape Header with jQuery

How to Make an Impressive Animated Landscape Header with jQuery

Make an Animated Alphabet Using Keypress Events in jQuery

Make an Animated Alphabet Using Keypress Events in jQuery

How to Make a Smooth Animated Menu with jQuery

How to Make a Smooth Animated Menu with jQuery

Sliding Boxes and Captions with jQuery

Sliding Boxes and Captions with jQuery

Create a Realistic Hover Effect with jQuery

Create a Realistic Hover Effect with jQuery

Glimmer “Freestyle” Animations

Glimmer

Create a Funky Parallax Background Effect Using jQuery

Create a Funky Parallax Background Effect Using jQuery

Create a Stunning Sliding Door Effect with jQuery

Create a Stunning Sliding Door Effect with jQuery

How to Build an Animated Header in jQuery

How to Build an Animated Header in jQuery

Create a Unique Gallery by Using Z-Index and jQuery

Create a Unique Gallery by Using Z-Index and jQuery

jQuery UI Animation Effects

jQuery UI Animation Effects

Animate Your Message Boxes with jQuery

Animate Your Message Boxes with jQuery

Sexy Opacity Animation with MooTools or jQuery

Sexy Opacity Animation with MooTools or jQuery

Controlling Animation Timing in jQuery

Controlling Animation Timing in jQuery

Methods for Animation Effects with jQuery 1.4

Methods for Animation Effects with jQuery 1.4

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28 Responses

Ted Thompson July 12th, 2010

Great tutorials, very helpful!

kişisel web günlüğü July 12th, 2010

Super Tutorials.very very thank you

squivo July 12th, 2010

Thanks for the tuts. Great examples and easy to follow

Box Model Junkie July 12th, 2010

Agreed, anything that will help people stop using Flash is great in my book.

Shevaa|WebDesignersBlog July 13th, 2010

Wow Usefule Tutorials… Thx for sharing man…

TheodorosPloumis July 13th, 2010

These jquery-about posts are excellent!

yellowww July 13th, 2010

Very useful! Thx for that

Peter29 July 13th, 2010

Very helpful tutorial.Thank you.

Alex Mourer July 14th, 2010

Very useful tutorials

Alex Mourer July 14th, 2010

thanks for the tutorials they are much help!

Priyesh July 16th, 2010

As a newcomer to jquery, these tutorials give you’re a great insight into how valuable jquery can be to a web designer. The wide range of tutorials will provide a good foundation for me to progress in my learning of jquery.

vivek July 19th, 2010

Thank You for this effective tutorial. Really this very effective for me. Please write this types of tutorials in future …….

ndrew July 20th, 2010

what a great collection..
way to go..
thumbs up..

Manali July 23rd, 2010

As a newcomer to SEO , anything that will stop using Flash is great in my Knowledge than flash these tutorials give a great insight into how valuable jquery can be to a web designer. ..

RGB tool July 26th, 2010

Great article!

I didn’t know that you could do such things with jQuery. Great

praca July 28th, 2010

Great collection! I didnt know that jquery’s so powerfull:)

Nauman Akhtar August 3rd, 2010

Thanks for sharing such eye catching jquery animations .. :)

I will definitely use few of these in my new projects.

Contract Hire Stockport August 4th, 2010

i’d love to use more JQuery in my work. My current clients are business 2 business and want more corporate designs, but I’ll bookmark this for future clients for sure!.

Web Design Hippo August 4th, 2010

Thanks for these tutorials. Seeing as jQuery is almost overtaking Flash, I think it’s time I start to learn it!

Thomas Hunter September 5th, 2010

Here’s a cool one, complete with all of the required source code and photoshop files:

http://www.renownedmedia.com/blog/android-nexus-neural-network-live-wallpaper-in-jquery/

meena October 11th, 2010

I will definitely use few of these in my new projects.

sn3p June 16th, 2011

I did some jQuery animations to avoid Flash.
Check out the different slides in the header.
http://www.trussystem.nl

jacob August 23rd, 2011

very nice cool jQuery effects.Thanks

Kişisel Web Günlüğüm October 4th, 2011

i’d love to use more JQuery in my work. My current clients are business 2 business and want more corporate designs, but I’ll bookmark this for future clients for sure!.

Abigail Wekey November 21st, 2011

Do you mind if I quote a couple of your articles as long as I provide credit and sources back to your website? My blog is in the exact same area of interest as yours and my users would certainly benefit from a lot of the information you present here. Please let me know if this ok with you. Thanks a lot!

Vandelay Website Design November 21st, 2011

Hi Abigail,
Our posts cannot be re-published. Thanks.

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