JQuery

JQuery is a JavaScript library intended to make it easier to add and use JavaScript on your website. It is tailor made for selecting HTML elements and performing some action on the element(s) It is the shorter, faster, lighter and, hopefully, simpler way to add functionality with JavaScript.

Plugins

In order to keep jQuery itself lightweight, the library has adopted a plugin architecture. A plug-in is basically a bit of code that extends JQuery in some specific and usable way e.g. a slideshow plugin. Plug-ins rely on JQuery library for core functions while providing new capabilities.

Plugin Registry and jQuery itself has its own "expansion" packs e.g. jquery UI.

Bear in mind:

The process

  1. Download the plugin
  2. Get the demo working with the demo code on your local machine (once that's up and running, move to the next step).
  3. Adapt the demo code to your site / pages by adding the necessary references to the .js, .css and other supporting materials to your pages. References must be to folder locations the plugin expects.
  4. Test and customize!

Demos