35 jQuery Animation Tutorials
Published in Web DevelopmentCreative 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.
For more learning resources please see:
- Learn Web Design: Educational Resources for Beginners
- Learn Photoshop: All of the Basics for Beginners
- Learn Illustrator: All of the Basics for Beginners
- Learn Photo Editing: Tutorials for Designers and Photographers
Animate Image Filling Up Using jQuery
Animate Curtains Opening with jQuery
Building an Animated Cartoon Robot with jQuery
jQuery Animations: A 7-Step Program
jQuery and CSS Sprite Animation Explained in Under 5 Minutes
Fun with jQuery’s Animate () Function
How to Create a “MooTools Homepage” Inspired Navigation Effect Using jQuery
Crafting an Animated Postcard with jQuery
How to Create a Drop-Down Nav Menu with HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery
Creating a Polaroid Photo Viewer with CSS3 and jQuery
Quick Tip: Easy Sequential Animations in jQuery
Build an Incredible Login Form with jQuery
Learning jQuery: Revealing Photo Slider
Using jQuery for Background Image Animations
Create a Cool Animated Navigation with CSS and jQuery
Animated Drop Down Menu with jQuery
How to Load In and Animate Content with jQuery
Puffing Smoke Effect in jQuery
How to Make an Impressive Animated Landscape Header with jQuery
Make an Animated Alphabet Using Keypress Events in jQuery
How to Make a Smooth Animated Menu with jQuery
Sliding Boxes and Captions with jQuery
Create a Realistic Hover Effect with jQuery
Glimmer “Freestyle” Animations
Create a Funky Parallax Background Effect Using jQuery
Create a Stunning Sliding Door Effect with jQuery
How to Build an Animated Header in jQuery
Create a Unique Gallery by Using Z-Index and jQuery
Animate Your Message Boxes with jQuery
Sexy Opacity Animation with MooTools or jQuery
Controlling Animation Timing in jQuery
Methods for Animation Effects with jQuery 1.4
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29 Responses
Great tutorials, very helpful!
Super Tutorials.very very thank you
Thanks for the tuts. Great examples and easy to follow
Agreed, anything that will help people stop using Flash is great in my book.
Wow Usefule Tutorials… Thx for sharing man…
These jquery-about posts are excellent!
Very useful! Thx for that
Very helpful tutorial.Thank you.
Very useful tutorials
thanks for the tutorials they are much help!
Nice list.
Here’s another one http://www.opensourcehunter.com/2010/02/18/cool-animation-2-images-and-a-little-bit-of-jquery/
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.
Thank You for this effective tutorial. Really this very effective for me. Please write this types of tutorials in future …….
what a great collection..
way to go..
thumbs up..
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. ..
Great article!
I didn’t know that you could do such things with jQuery. Great
Great collection! I didnt know that jquery’s so powerfull:)
Thanks for sharing such eye catching jquery animations ..
I will definitely use few of these in my new projects.
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!.
Thanks for these tutorials. Seeing as jQuery is almost overtaking Flash, I think it’s time I start to learn it!
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/
I will definitely use few of these in my new projects.
I did some jQuery animations to avoid Flash.
Check out the different slides in the header.
http://www.trussystem.nl
very nice cool jQuery effects.Thanks
how about this? http://lysergicstudio.com/windmill-with-rotating-wings-with-just-jquery/
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!.
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!
Hi Abigail,
Our posts cannot be re-published. Thanks.
Very nice jquery effect! I’m finding the effect which change the part of image of larger image contain it, like the effect of the change contact lens. Do you know about it ? Thanks a lots.